THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1959.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Fashion's Young Dictator makes some
RONIGA
confessions
Yves St. Laurent talks
to Joy Matthews
I do not have any real woman in mind
when I create.
my collections"
Paris.
LOOKING pale and even more like the Bernard Buffer
portrait of himself than seems possible, Yves St. Laurent, now the ripe age of 22, sat mure easily in the throne of oflice than I remember seeing him do a year ugo.
But it is a throne as remoto from the realities of the world he lives in as a monk's coll.
"I do not have any real woman in mind when I create my collections," he told me. "The only woman in my thoughts is the woman in
UP SKIMMED A SUNBURNED MAN WITH A BRILLIANT SMILE AND A STRANGE, HYPNOTIC CHARM
I glide into a world
Auron (Alpes-Maritimes).
AWAKENED this morn- from
I
ing in the room
which Christian Dior once wrote: "I will think often of this rosy happiures and I awaken- the mountains."
ed to the sound of music and a scene that Brueghel might have painted.
Ith their scarlets, yellown, anki vivid blues, the skaters were out early in the sunshine. was irresistible.
I R never before had the fonist reire to shate, but it war irresistible,
Onea into some borrowed bol.
a introduced to I was
kitchen innufre version of n chair on skids, and, swinging to the Pres. I set of pushing all cireled the
Lefore me.
Several times I rink. Then up skimmed a dark- ly sunburned man with a bril- Hunt mile"Ah, Mademoiselle, throw away that thing. Slow- slowly...ken bird...
ly
the arms like wings, To right to the left."
Portrayed without
exaggeration
the
It was Antoine-cutting in- tricate cures around me as he ehamed eneun ragement.
Antoine, the greatest French hairdresser there has ever been, Antoine-who once slept in glass coffin, wore a tomato- sous red suit, commissioned his own tomb, dyed his dog bite, and invented the shingle-he whom Fernandel portrayed without exaggeration in Coiffeur dea Damer,
As a fashion writer, i can ind no words for this minn. How many this have I described a
evening wrup "Lulous"....a nonsense of
пи
hat as "fantastic."
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where years don't count
all the ilme. To 50 mony prople a tree is a tree.
But
when I am close to a tree I become one. I am feeling the sap Fling in me.
"There is a pulse I feel it is 'perhaps the heart of the world
bentiti
So tedny. when you have stated, you have bien in love with the run and the snow-t you have been at one with the ice, yes?"
Each day an
adventure
"Yes," said I, nttle doubt- fully. fecting my bruises "And explain about the bad thoughts, please."
"A materialistic way of life- that is bad. Money, possessions, power-love of these things is written on the tree. Senlousy, greed. ancl envy Lurn the
liner ritmach sour--make inside. I have no such thoughts.
"Each day is a new day-an adventure?”
"ul if you weren't a sticcers- ful man would it be so?"
"When I was poor
my aim was always the same.
"I
Derived in Paris from Warsaw, with an astrakhan
hat a Catholle Prayer-book, and live gold pieces sewn lato any пvercoat.
"But from the beginning
was happy. Send out happiaco
wide,
- makes a great clrcle." Antoine is the BIOST. HS He swept his arms exuberance is real and utterly "And it will return, bringing no spontaneous.
Such blo strange, almost hypnotic chara that I found myself skating with him, making bird movements "The right wing, then the left"-while falo
much with it."
Imitation Bardots
by the dozen
thoughts chased themselves T night It seems the bats of
mt mot head.
It can't be he-skating the this. Friend of Ledy Mondi –
A. this very eny little town are Alled with imliation Bardots. I
of Coco Chanel, Schiaparelli, have a theory that the manage-
Chevalier, Mistingueti-however old can he be?"
Beating, beating
all the time
I continued my birduke move
inents untif fushed witt
ment orders them up by the dozen as required for decoration. Some wear their hair down their backs como pile it high. All, without exception, Wenr pale pstek and spendi their
ne pouting. Which is, I sus peri, singularly dimcult to do.
specially while drinking.
In spite of their uniform
silsecos. I skated across the rink appearance their success, fluta- alone. Then over 11 cup of tionwise, varles considerably, coffer
Antoine supplied, the and I am constantly reminded BASWET.
We were talking of Chanel of Dorothy Parker who wrote:
"Some men break your heart and her astonishing "come- back."
"She told," said he, "but (proudly) I um older. 1 am 70." Since he looks about 85, my uslenishment was not slavilated, "How do you do it, Antoine?" "It is amplc, I eat to
in: two,
Some men Jawn and Ralier, Some men never look at you, And that clears up the
matter."
the ginger-blondo Why Bardot surrounded while the rene-blonde Bardot sips alone?
no little-liko a sparrow. I got They reum as like ka two poas
close-oo close to nature. And
I have no bad thoughts,"
tu me and the teen "tear up
"Please explain about nature. hp matter in their usually
It is the whim of life
that I feel, beating, besling
inexplicable manner.
~~London Express - Bersion),
What does tho fashionable girl wear when she geen skling or skating? Here is my choice, a anorak made of plain but strictly practical the softest leather. It belts low on the hips. For apres-aki, the fairiest of hairy sweaters (right) is a favourite, worn long,
PICTURE BY JOHN ADRIAAN.
my drawings, and later the mannequin on whom I make the drosa. I never visualise a woman walking in the streets, shopping, or board- ing a bus when I design.
"Once the collection is done I do not think of the clothes 1 have designed any more.
"I lose interest completely and
I rarely see anyone wearing one of my designs. Whether made here or off-the-pot, each tools as perfect as the actual anodel
that
i makes on the mannequin." M. St. Laurent denies there is a biy turn-over of fashion in Parly,
In
EX-
Only every 10 or 15 years is there a great revolution. my own collection, for ample," he said, "a quarter 14 for, the hemlines," The rest is purely evolution of style, mu there must be continuity, so that, women really can wear their clothes more than one Suazon."
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