Last year’s giant Yves Saint Laurent retrospective at Paris’ Petit Palais drew raves, but many missed seeing a recap of Rive Gauche, the designer’s ready-to-wear collection, which was the first foray of a French couturier into mass-produced clothes when it launched in 1966. Ask and you shall receive. The designer’s longtime partner, Pierre Bergé, pulled [...]

The model baby boom continues: Doutzen Kroes and Sunnery James welcomed baby boy Phyllon (pronounced Fillen) today in Amsterdam. Victoria’s Secret better look into a daycare center. [Modelinia]
Darren Aronofsky and Vincent Cassel have swapped ballet for perfume. The Black Swan director and his star collaborated on a video for Yves Saint Laurent’s La Nuit [...]

This morning, the first shots from model-of-the-moment Arizona Muse’s campaign for YSL Spring 2011, creative directed by Stefano Pilati and shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin in the gardens of Marrakech’s Palmeraie. Above, check out exclusive, never-before-seen new images from the campaign, and click below for larger versions, as well as the original [...]

For Spring, the question on designers’ minds was: What would Yves Saint Laurent do? Everyone from Marc Jacobs to Gucci’s Frida Giannini took pages straight from the late great’s playbook, showing seventies-inspired designs. There was no lack of jumpsuits on the runways, but in contrast to recent seasons, these were more Studio 54 dance floor [...]

Marrakech is what it is now—including home of the annual Marrakech International Film Festival, which has been unfurling the red carpet this past week for the likes of Catherine Deneuve, Marion Cotillard, and Eva Mendes—thanks in part to Yves Saint Laurent. And to a great extent, the iconic designer’s legacy is what it is thanks [...]

A great bit of accessories design can go miles and miles. Just consider for a moment how many YSL Tribute sandals have been sold over the past few years. When we spotted the second generation of Fallon’s Vieuphoria choker at the Fenton/Fallon preview earlier this week, we sensed greatness in the making. There’s just something [...]

As expected, Giles Deacon (pictured) has been named creative director at Emanuel Ungaro. Let’s just pretend the Lindsay years never happened. [Vogue U.K.]August will be Stefano Tonchi’s first issue at W. For his first cover? A twofer, Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall (co-stars in the new Ben Affleck movie The Town). W: the new, edgy [...]

As we enter a new decade, the fashion business, like the rest of the world, is encountering significant economic and technological change. In this series, Style.com’s editor in chief, Dirk Standen, talks to a number of leading industry figures about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
When Alber Elbaz phoned me from Paris, it was [...]

The XX. Gossip. Miike Snow. If that sounds like a rundown of the runway music for the last few fashion seasons, it’s no coincidence—those bands, and several more, were all selected for a new compilation by Michelangelo L’Acqua (pictured), who spent the better part of his career helping designers cherry-pick the tunes for their shows, [...]

Since the death of Yves Saint Laurent (pictured at work, above) in 2008, there’s been no shortage of tributes, headlines, and homages. But the Saint Laurent retrospective, opening this Thursday at Paris’ Petit Palais, is the biggest yet. The show includes 307 couture pieces in pristine, barely worn condition, from the vaults of the Fondation [...]