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[Steddycam91]

Jennifer Hudson in the Sex and the City movie being gifted a Louis Vuitton bag from the Richard Prince-inspired S/S 2008 collection...



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[jeanclaude]

Jennifer Hudson in the Sex and the City movie being gifted a Louis Vuitton bag from the Richard Prince-inspired S/S 2008 collection...
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That handbag looks like it has a tropical disease of some sort!

 

[Drusilla_]

Kirsten Dunst at the 2007 Met Gala being about 10 years ahead of trends by wearing a vintage YSL dress with a Christian Lacroix headpiece* and shoes and getting put on 'worst dressed' lists for it despite being the only one on theme (Poiret, that year) and the fact that she'd actually bought her whole outfit**.


*(confirmed via interview in Allure)
** personally, I think she looked fantastic and even better for having a dress she could actually move in and not some internal organ squeezing thing that renders its wearers unable to walk.

 

[The Byron Boy]

«Actresses Elizabeth Taylor and Gina Lollobrigida at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1961, both wearing the Miss Dior dress, haute couture Spring-Summer 1961, Slim Look collection.»

I guess celebrities couldn't coordinate for these things to not happen as easily as now.

 

[Lola701]

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«Actresses Elizabeth Taylor and Gina Lollobrigida at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1961, both wearing the Miss Dior dress, haute couture Spring-Summer 1961, Slim Look collection.»

I guess celebrities couldn't coordinate for these things to not happen as easily as now.

It still happens with clients nowadays lol.

 

[nejtak]

Jennifer Hudson in the Sex and the City movie being gifted a Louis Vuitton bag from the Richard Prince-inspired S/S 2008 collection...



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Loving these references.

Bringing up Vogue Italia again sorry...but remember when it was mentioned in Bee Movie? Don't have a screenshot. Then there's also Tarantino's Death Proof.

 

[blueorchid]

Visiting my WWD files... when Yves thought Bunuel didn't use his costumes erotically enough in Belle de Jour



This totally normal analysis of fashion designers' faces. John Fairchild was sooo f*cking shady. Anna wishes!!

 

[MulletProof]

^ see that generation was ruthless because that's what they had to endure! their faces printed on a newspaper next to an unhinged physical description of it haha ("sepia-toned", "oriental, lazy eyes", "sagging cheeks", "deeply recessed cheeks" "his baldness give him a reptilian allure").

 

[blueorchid]

@MulletProof you didn't put my favourite quote (but how could you have known). Re: Karl - "It would help if the ecru Carita tint didn't sometimes drip into the beard."

There's also this monocle feature by Andre Leon Talley, obviously referencing Karl's monocle era.

 

[MulletProof]

^ why did I not even read it?! that's just brutal! 😅

 

[blueorchid]

I'm trying to find a YSL interview in WWD where he accuses Givenchy of copying him in the most hilarious way: "oh, I was looking in a fashion magazine and thought that my design looked great... then I read the credit and it was Givenchy!"

 

[blueorchid]

I'm trying to find a YSL interview in WWD where he accuses Givenchy of copying him in the most hilarious way: "oh, I was looking in a fashion magazine and thought that my design looked great... then I read the credit and it was Givenchy!"

I found it!!! August 2, 1976



Coverage of Yves' mid-1970s shows was the most melodramatic thing ever, April 7, 1976



This headline from October 28, 1970.



When they interviewed Karl's mother!!! December 1973

 

[Koibito]

Old fashion newspapers were so lively lol

 

[Lola701]

One thing that I miss from back in the days was the competitive aspect of fashion. They mostly all hated each others and were super competitive.
And it’s funny how anybody could get it! Yves shaded Chanel on TV, shaded Givenchy in the press…etc.

John Fairchild was ruthless. This generation would never take him. What he wrote about Bohan’s face is so horrible lol

 

[blueorchid]

Yves shaded Chanel on TV

Oh yes, that's when he called Chanel's designs a historical costume!!! 🤭 I think it's funny when people refer to Chanel saying Yves was her "successor" she said that because she was accusing him of COPYING her lol.

I can't find the clip where he shades Chanel, but there's this one from the same interview where he shades every contemporary designer of the 1960s...

 

[GoldenPetals]

GAY MISERABLE

 

[blueorchid]

Here's the shady Chanel interview Yves gave in the 60s. I can't find the video online, but here are the screencaps from my video of it (lol I own a random dvd with tons of fashion interviews on it)

 

[Salvatore]

Wow, I had no idea it was like this !!! They were really ruthless and wild back then !!! I want to read more lol

 

[GoldenPetals]

Didn't Chanel accuse Dior of wanting to be a woman himself?

 

[Lola701]

Here's the shady Chanel interview Yves gave in the 60s. I can't find the video online, but here are the screencaps from my video of it (lol I own a random dvd with tons of fashion interviews on it)

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Here’s the link

Yves Saint-Laurent et Mademoiselle Chanel | INA

www.ina.fr

He tried in the beginning to not be shady but couldn’t help himself lol