Slog - Comments on YSL Sendoff http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff Northwest Film Forum just happened to be playing a pair of films about Yves Saint Laurent the weekend he died. If you'd still like to pay tribute to the inventor of the pantsuit, you still have time. NWFF is playing the biographical documentary Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times again this Friday at 7:15 and 9:15 pm, and Yves Saint Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris, a doc about the designer's old-school, labor-intensive atelier in the year before it closed, on Friday at 7 and 9 pm.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:22:33 -0800 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:24:39 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by NapoleonXIV It looks like she's getting ready to catch an incoming Bosnian mortar round with her BARE HANDS!!!

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038053 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038053 Retail Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:43:43 -0800 Comment by bronkitis The 5 Avenue Marceau documentary is the best film about fashion. Ever.
Caveat emptor: it will really really make you want to smoke.

]]> bronkitis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038091 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038091 Retail Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:59:29 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Nice heels.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038098 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038098 Retail Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:06:29 -0800 Comment by jackseattle Pantsuits are for cankles!!!

]]> jackseattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038111 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038111 Retail Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:15:53 -0800 Comment by PA Native Weird that there weren't any pictures available showing the pant suit w/o the coat.

]]> PA Native http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038161 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038161 Retail Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:05:55 -0800 Comment by annie @5: Uh, of course there were. But none in which she was making a grateful gesture toward the sky.

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038167 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038167 Retail Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:11:14 -0800 Comment by thaumaturgistguy OMG. Where did you find that picture?!?! That is the airline that I used to work for...before they went bankrupt anyway.

]]> thaumaturgistguy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038198 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038198 Retail Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:36:44 -0800 Comment by It's Mark Mitchell @2 You are so right.

When the ladies of the atelier cry because they have pleased Monsieur with their work, it is a thing of grandiose beauty.

]]> It's Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038316 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038316 Retail Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:51:10 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Speaking of anorexic models, the one on the left is hot but the one on the right is positively skeletal. Her face looks like a skull. Ah, the joy of cocaine in the seventies, I guess.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038347 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038347 Retail Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:06:55 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @9,

And is it just me or is she missing a tooth? I'm surprised no one has commented on that yet.

@7,

That might explain Hillary's gesture in the photo. I flew ATA once. I have never been so terrified during landing before or since.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038348 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/ysl_sendoff#c1038348 Retail Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:24:39 -0800