Yesterday, as I was supposed to be leaving San Francisco, I managed to squeeze in the press preview for the Yves Saint Laurent exhibition at the de Young museum.  In my blase travel gear, (Converse, oversized slouchy tees and skirt), I hadn’t realised that YSL royalty was going to be there in the form of Pierre Bergé who was there to introduce the exhibition and say some words which I badly recorded below.  He requoted his famous quote of Chanel giving liberty to women and YSL gave them power but also said this…

“I don’t know if fashion is art.  But I do know you need to be an artist to create fashion.”

I have mountains of images to post but that will come post jet lag laggedness… I will however post this one image of Betty Catroux, one of Yves’ muses, who also was there in her black clad-icy blonde glory.

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I know I’ve already harped on about Mary Katrantzou not once but twice today but I just can’t get her mesmerising prints out of my head.  The exaggerrated effect of them coupled with her colour choices just makes me really excited about what she will do in the future.  At the BFC London Rocks showroom in Paris yesterday, I literally zoomed into her collection seeing as I had seen the other ppl’s collections at the shows (Todd Lynn, Louise Gray, Erdem, House of Holland etc etc).

Mary is one of the lucky few to start her own label so soon after her CSM MA collection and she’s lightened things up a bit for S/S 09.  No more double bonded jersey as the fabrics are much lighter whilst still retaining a stretch.  On parts of the dresses, light denim is sewn, which slightly casualfies the pieces, especially on the piece with a mock denim short front.  The zips are fully functional this time so you can shorten things if needs be or have purposeful slits in the dress.  What I love is the clash of colours that is always well judged and never seems wrong.  The addition of stripes makes me think that Katrantzou did a funny play on the classic breton stripe.

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I didn’t really have much time to walk around PROPERLY but seeing as the weather is truly gorgeous here in San Francisco, the streets actually BEG to be walked on.

I didn’t expect to buy anything 3 hours after landing here but at Crossroads Trading Co. on Fillmore Street, a $20 buy came in the form of these pink Salvatore Ferragamo shoes.  Ok, so I have only nailed ONE element of an outfit for $20…one step at a time…once I start hitting up Mission and all the thrift goodies there, we shall see what will ensue there…

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