Obama + Hillary = Naomi Campbell?

“Naomi represents the new world — in my mind, she is a mix of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.”

Hehe. Ni har väl inte missat den stora intervjun med Stefano Pilati i NY Times av Lynn Hirschberg. Den är fylld med galna, och framtida klassiska citat. Ovanstående är en kommentar kring valet av YSLs nuvarande frontface Naomi Campbell.

Han har också ett och annat nice dirt att säga om Tom Fords skills, och hur hatad han var på YSL...

“Tom had a very precise vision of the company that didn’t challenge women … Tom is talented but not gifted. That’s the way he managed the business. Tom would say: ‘We can’t do this silhouette because she looks fat.’ Or, ‘Oh, no — women don’t like this fabric; we can’t use it.’ That mentality was something to learn but was so far from my way of thinking. Why do you want to be safe? I’m more like: Why don’t you wear gray flannel for an evening dress? I find that fantastic! Not Tom, never.”

“When I met him, I was under his spell. But I was amazingly scared to move to Paris and work for YSL. Prada was like a family, and it was a very female environment. Tom was surrounded by men, and he was like a fashion designer in a movie. We were naïve at Prada — we did things because we liked them, and they took off. Tom was much more calculated. I spent the first year trying to absorb his mentality. It was very difficult. Tom was mostly living in London, and I was being tested by everybody at YSL in Paris. Even the receptionist. They all hated Tom, and they were all telling me about Mr. Saint Laurent and what he used to do.”

Han förklarar också varför han slutat med herrmodevisningar och använder skådisar och inte modeller i sina konceptvisningar för YSLs herrkollektion. Mode är endast för kvinnor?

“A well-dressed man is someone you want to share an evening with, have a conversation … You don’t want to see him on the catwalk. Whatever your sexuality, fashion is female … How beautiful is it to see the breast or the derrière moving on the street? We are all seduced by the blue of the sky and the red of the flower, why not the behind of a woman? It’s just a beautiful part of nature.”

“I always wonder why 99 percent of the top male fashion designers are homosexual. In my case, I would say that my sexuality has led me to love women to death and to hate them as well. It helped me understand the male mind. But when I do a fitting with a woman, I think, Would this woman seduce me?”

Hm. Lustigt att han verkar ha samma förhållande till kvinnor som Yves originalet.  Missa inte.

Signore Pilati på sin sista riktiga catwalkvisning för herr, ss08.