Yves Saint Laurent Fashion & Cosmetics
YSL Drops Colette for Parody T-Shirts
Streetwear has as far back as anyone can remember obtained from the universe of high design see Stussy's Chanel-enlivened interfaced S logo and marks like Ssur pumping out their predominant "Comme des Fuckdown"-decorated apparatus.
Copies of the imitators soon overflowed the business, hitting basic mass around the oft-reblogged, dependably on-Instagram style set. Also now, it shows up the contraband, mark obtaining attire has destroyed a longstanding business relationship.
Wwd reported that Yves Saint Laurent has finished a 15-year business association with hip French thought store Colette over the offers of "Ain't Laurent Without Yves" T-shirts by Reason Clothing. Entertainingly enough, the mark What About Yves claims to have created the satire, on top of undertakes different marks like Hermes. It is possible that way, the tees have been worn since creator Hedi Slimane assumed control over the inventive rules a year ago and balanced the notorious mark's name for his prepared to-wear line. The humorous part? Slimane truly succeeded Stefano Pilati, who was Ysl's imaginative chief for eight years. The real Yves Saint Laurent resigned in 2002 until his passing in 2008.
Colette's imaginative executive Sarah Andelman ended up uninvited to Saint Laurent's Paris design indicate on Monday, and told Wwd: "We have been banned."
While its unmistakably well inside Ysl's entitlement to ensure the cachet of the mark, Andelman imagines that good sense should direct the regarded form house to follow the makers of the spoof items, not free retailers and shops who offer them. While we don't think anybody's set to confound the shirts being referred to with any of Slimane's plans, its the first run through a high-end mark has so freely tended to the low-end pieces that similarly announce and benefit off of them. As the Canal Street-propelled pattern treasure its approach to Madison Avenue-level stores, it'll be fascinating to perceive how the extravagance marks will undertake these parody names.
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