I’m really not into fashion. When I can get away with it, I generally wear whatever’s clean and functional, and the sniff test occupies a hallowed place in my fashion decision-making process right between the have-I-worn-this-for-the-last-two-days test and the is-it-stained-anywhere-obvious test.
Still, this man was a legend in his field, and his work has affected the fashion selections of hundreds of millions of women. From the New York Times:
Originally a maverick and a generator of controversy — in 1968, his suggestion that women wear pants as an everyday uniform was considered revolutionary — Mr. Saint Laurent developed into a more conservative designer, a believer in evolution rather than revolution. He often said that all a woman needed to be fashionable was a pair of pants, a sweater and a raincoat.
“My small job as a couturier,” he once said, “is to make clothes that reflect our times. I’m convinced women want to wear pants.”
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1 Alison // Jun 3, 2008 at 1:53 pm
While it was nice of M. St-Laurent to help make women’s pants fashionable I find it weird how all news sources mention him as being responsible for the change. My mum was (according to profs) the first women to wear slacks at the University of Alberta between 2-6 years before 1968.
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