Fashion File - YSL Rive Gauche

Fashion File - YSL Rive Gauche - Designer

YSL Rive Gauche - Spring/Summer 2007

For Yves Saint Laurent it was irises, but for Stefano Pilati it’s all about violets this season at YSL Rive Gauche. But of course, with him, it's never about just one idea...

YSL Rive Gauche - Fall/Winter 2006

Since unveiling the tulip skirt in his Spring 2005 debut collection, Stefano Pilati has come into his own at YSL, not content to follow the trends, but to set them. For Fall/Winter 2006, Pilati presented a primitive, “unleashing the beast within” directive, showcasing stately gold accents, oversized jabots, and the piece of the season: a boxy, strong tunic worn over narrow pants, a skirt, or on its own as a dress.

YSL Rive Gauche - Spring/Summer 2006

In three short seasons, Stefano Pilati has gone from obscurity behind the scenes at YSL to being one of the most influential designers working today. He is the man responsible for all the tulip skirts crowding the malls, wide belts buckled high on the waist, and the platform shoes that are the sandal of the season. This season, he’s exercising the ruffle. Get ready.

YSL Rive Gauche - Fall/Winter 2005

Stefano Pilati's second collection for YSL Rive Gauche was highly anticipated after last season's controversial debut. With a severe new silhouette, a bit of 17th century Flemish painting and a bit of the Vatican for inspiration, this effort promises to continue the debate...

YSL Rive Gauche - Spring/Summer 2005

Yves Saint Laurent and Tom Ford may be two of the most daunting names to follow in fashion, and together they have built a very tempting archive for the house. After four years as Ford’s assistant, however, Mr. Pilati is feeling strong enough to make a clean break from his predecessors.

YSL Rive Gauche - Fall/Winter 2004

The night that has been over a year in the making has finally arrived: Tom Ford will literally bow out of the fashion arena, leaving a gaping hole in the ranks of runway celebrities. It’s historic, it’s emotional, and – this being Tom Ford – it promises to be a good show. For fashion people, this is as good as it gets.

YSL Rive Gauche - Spring/Summer 2004

This would be Tom’s last spring collection for the house of YSL, and instinctively, he delivered. It was twenties, it was disco, it was all Tom Ford.

YSL Rive Gauche - Fall/Winter 2003

For Fall 2003 at the house of Yves St. Laurent, Ford gave the industry some of the season’s key looks and lots to talk about. Dabbling with a forties silhouette, Ford injected it with the decadence of the seventies and a sizzling sensuality. This collection was fashion in the best sense; precocious, provocative and perverse.

YSL Rive Gauche - Spring/Summer 2003

In a provocative collection that borrowed heavily from the pre-war surrealist movement, Tom Ford surprised on-lookers with a heavy-handed exploitation of sexual imagery masquerading as fashion. Exaggerating both a 40's silhouette and Daliesque obsessions it was unclear whether Ford was mirroring or mimicking the subversive culture of the time - and.....WHY? Much like pornography itself there was little that was actually sexy in this collection - unusual for Ford, the designer who excels at mainlining sensuality on his runways. In the 1970's, when Saint Laurent did a collection that referenced the 1940's, it was the most controversial thing that he ever did and perhaps this will be the most controversial thing Tom Ford has ever done.

YSL Rive Gauche - Fall/Winter 2002

Tom Ford has put his seductive stamp on yet another signature of French fashion - the little black suit. Taking it apart and lacing it back together again, Ford's collection of cocktail dressing was sophisticated and suggestive - tied up with ribbons and bows like the very best kind of present. Who says good things come in small packages?

YSL Rive Gauche - Spring/Summer 2002

For many years Africa was the stomping ground for Yves Saint Laurent, so it seems natural that Tom Ford went on safari with his spring Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche collection. Animal prints, tribal motifs and that 70's trademark, the caftan, made a great tribute to Yves Saint Laurent.

Yves Saint Laurent - Retospective - Spring/Summer 2002

With his tuxedo for women, art-inspired collections and countless other innovations Yves Saint Laurent revolutionized the modern woman's wardrobe. When he announced his retirement in early 2002, the fashion world witnessed the end of an era. For his final haute couture collection Yves Saint Laurent put on a 90 minute living retrospective featuring 300 archival pieces (all of which can be ordered, by the way) that was televised live in France. A must-see segment.