The media has made YSL’s designs about resilience. But what if that is simply not the story?
Anthony Vaccarello's Saint Laurent Fall 2024 Ready-To-Wear presentation revealed the body and the person just as they were in sheer transparency. And while one might expect this setting to be vulnerable, it was anything but.
The contrast of flexibility and sensitivity took center stage at Saint Laurent's Fall 2024 Ready-To-Wear. Almost the entire collection was made out of stocking fabric, which pulls and adjusts, but also shreds. In a space oversaturated with reality, Vaccarello chose to double down on fantasy, describing his collection as ephemeral.
There is a certain allure to arriving with very little to conceal or hide behind. For Yves Saint Laurent, the idea has always been seduction on the move. The Saint Laurent woman is no static object of desire but the embodiment of desire pushed to its extremes, controlling her assets like a weapon.
For a topic that begs for positive cognition, the female body, or the concept of it, sure knows how to stir up a conversation. In fact, that’s pretty much all it does. Everyone has got their two cents, trying to morph it into something deeper than flesh and bones. We want it to represent an idea, a function, a foundation. What we cannot and will not do is simply let it be. But I suppose it’s against our intellectual nature to let any subject, no matter what that might be, just be.
For the sake of the conversation, let’s accept that the female body will never just be perceived as an expression of nature. The investment in it is far too grand. Yet, for the sake of this very specific conversation, let's try to have a romantic approach. What if the act of showcasing certain assets of the female body was initiated for admiration instead of interpretation?
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