Saint Laurent Over Gchat

Leandra: Hey! I just got back to my hotel from Saint Laurent. I cancelled my dinner plans and put on a robe and ordered a glass of red wine and smoked salmon to my room so I’m here for the rest of the U.S. day!!!!@@@@@

Did you look at Saint Laurent yet?

Amelia: That sounds like the nicest thing ever, can I have some? My Caravan of Broken Dreams salad isn’t here yet.

No is SL good? Hang on I’m going now

Why am I always playing catch up by Paris FW. I forget to look

Leandra: I don’t know why I like it so much. I’m looking at the pics on Vogue Runway now, I think you really have to be there to feel like you get it

There were rain boots and like, tiara bangs

And re: playing catch up — that’s a story. I think maybe your priorities are just different (in a good way)

Amelia: Are tiara bangs when your tiara sits on your forehead..like bangs?

This is an ode to Cocaine-era Kate Moss

Ok some of these dresses are really really pretty but man does Hedi Slimane fuck with people

Leandra: Doesn’t it also seem like post modern art a little bit?

Like he’s turning the lens of fast fashion on fast fashion

Knocking THEM off so that they can’t knock him off

I know that’s not post modern, but it’s manipulative in a really smart way. I think it just speaks to a really salient cultural condition. I just also kind of hate the condition.

Amelia: It is manipulative!

Hedi is a Sneaky Mom.

This is where looking at it online (only) is hard

I am just looking at the styling, and it looks super apathetic

(on purpose obviously)

Leandra: You can’t say he doesn’t know how to make a garment though — those slip dresses fit really well. Especially because they come with built-in nip slips.

Amelia: The styling’s like, “Ugh fucking prom.”

Leandra: When look 3 went down (jeans and trench), I was like…Glastonbury?

Amelia: IT IS

Leandra: But then this also presents a really important question for me, which I’ve been thinking about and mentioned in my Céline story that received exactly 1 comment

Which is that I’m not sure what’s smarter: the fashion or the writers who review the fashion. I think that we feed our own expectations by putting on rose-colored glasses when we’re at the shows of designers who we believe are masters of their craft

Amelia: What a statement!

That’s really true. It’s easy to favor a show because you favor the designer for whatever reason

Emperor’s New Clothes Syndrome

That long floral dress with the sequined sweater is so strangely beautiful though — even in the way that the sweater ruins it on purpose.

I think I’d like this look no matter where I saw it, and then pray that if I said that opinion out loud, it would be valitdated with, “Well, it’s Saint Laurent”

Leandra: I know we already compared Jeff Koons to Kim Kardashian, but there’s an air of Koons here, too, no? Think about his inflatable flowers. Who know how much those would cost to buy by Koons. They’re like $3.99 at the supermarket

Amelia: Yea well Slimane is subversive for the sake of performance, I think

He’s probably secretly at home with his newspaper and corduroys like, “kids these days”

But knows that this attitude gets people all riled up

Leandra: Look at McQueen btw. THAT is effort

Amelia: Ok hang on

What’s interesting, if we’re talking about art, is that I went to the Whitney last weekend and I walked around and so frequently was like, “I just don’t get this.”

Not all of it but a lot of it kind of made me roll my eyes. Buttt earlier this summer when I went to The Met to see the Sargent exhibit, I couldn’t leave the room, because it was like McQueen! More than anything you’re marveled by this technical ability to create beauty without it looking mechanic (and there’s a reason why you can spend an hour looking at a painting, but 5 seconds looking at that same painting in poster-format)

BRB to McQueen

Leandra: Well, that’s exactly it, right? The technical ability. I feel like that about Raf Simons — and Dries! They break down what’s difficult and present it to simply.

Amelia: Right

And it shows off the runway on the regular human too

Do you think you have to look like a Saint Laurent model for it to look high fashion though?

I think any woman could wear Dries and look chic

Leandra: Well no because you into the store and you’re just like FUCK THESE FABRICS FUCK THIS FIT

Why am I contemplating spending my rent money in here!?!?!?!?

Amelia: Hahah

bBtw I think Sarah Burton is the only other person in the world who loves a ruffle more than you

And no one loves a Chintz floral more than me and Ralph Lauren so thank you for incorporating that too, Sarah B

Leandra: Something for everyone!

Amelia: Actually that one SL dress I liked fits in to that print too

ok back to SL

Leandra: Wait, I’m gonna finish up this review on Stella/Sacai/Sonia Rykiel

But thanks for helping me through my thoughts on Saint Laurent

Amelia: kk wait question

all the black dresses at the end, did they look the same in person?

they do online because the images are dark

Leandra: OH at the end those final dresses (I think they’re couture) came out in a different light

Amelia: See. Reasons designers will always have SHOWS

Leandra: Well, that and being at the show gives you time to actually make an opinion. It’s just not the same as static images

Amelia: Oh truee. You go ruminate

Leandra: K, bye!

Photographs via Vogue Runway

Feature collage by Elizabeth Tamkin

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