The short thread, jumps, writes dotted lines on the back of a hem.
Suddenly, he apostrophes a sleeve.
It will be, he decides, the framework of a perfect poetic statement.
A postulate immediately embodied in a velvet embroidered with hemistiches.
And there it is, this sleeve, triumphant, puffy, romantic, rosy with octosyllables, the perfect summary of a certain idea of haute couture ...
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The works of Apollinaire, Aragon or Cocteau thus inspired Yves Saint Laurent, in 1980, to some of the most romantic models in his Couture collection.
The feeling of poetry translated into a language of silk and velvet: a wildly chic epistle to literature and to all the paper heroes who have nourished his imagination.
“I made a whole collection in tribute to Shakespeare.
A blouse resembled Hamlet's shirt, a red silk dress that of Lady Macbeth;
it was reminiscent of the Middle Ages, but quite modern.
Often I also think of Emma Bovary.
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