Design god Yves Saint Laurent died yesterday in his Paris apartment. He was 71.
We'll be honest, we didn't even know he was still alive. That's probably because our idea of following fashion is looking at the American Apparel catalog while on the toilet, and anything bearing the YSL label is too rich for our blogger blood. But Yves Saint Laurent was a name we knew well and prided ourselves in pronouncing correctly.
"And how does this relate to Scanner?," you might be asking yourself?
First let us ask you, "What are you wearing?"
Because not only did Laurent put Kate Moss in your magazines, he put women in sexy pants.
Originally a maverick and a generator of controversy — in 1968, his suggestion that women wear pants as an everyday uniform was considered revolutionary — Mr. Saint Laurent developed into a more conservative designer, a believer in evolution rather than revolution. He often said that all a woman needed to be fashionable was a pair of pants, a sweater and a raincoat.
“My small job as a couturier,” he once said, “is to make clothes that reflect our times. I’m convinced women want to wear pants.”
And for that, we thank you Mr. Laurent.
Uh, our pants are off to you?
[NYT: Yves Saint Laurent, 71, Is Dead; A Giant of Couture for 45 Years]