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ALL THE NUMBERS THAT MATTER FROM THE WEEK IN STYLE Sept. 28 – Oct. 4 Floors of leather, laser cuts and body-conscious covetables now for sale at Azzedine Alaia’s new store in Paris, which opened this past weekend. Oh, and the designer’s favorite food? Years the partnership lasted between the brand formerly known as Yves Saint Laurent and the original cool-kid concept store Colette. Thanks to a certain parody T-shirt (“Ain’t Laurent Without Yves”) recently sold at Colette, Saint Laurent’s designer Hedi Slimane abruptly ended the relationship. (It was his decision to drop “Yves” from the brand’s title.) Years Marc Jacobs has been creative director of Louis Vuitton, the venerable (if stodgy) luggage company he transformed into the one of the most successful luxury brands in the industry. He’s exited to focus on a Marc Jacobs I.P.O. Mazel tov, Marc. Age of Lancôme’s new “face.” Lily Collins, the dark-haired, porcelain-skinned daughter of the Genesis frontman Phil Collins and his second wife, Jill Tavelman, joins both Emma Watson and Kate Winslet as the third (British actress) brand ambassador.

Percentage of women who are willing to share the cost of their own engagement ring, according to a survey on The Knot’s Facebook page. This number seems suspiciously high. The minimum price of a blowout at B3, Barneys Blow Bar by Valery Joseph. The salon, which will also offer styling, cuts and extensions, will have its own entrance and hours when it opens on Madison Avenue on Oct. 8. There goes the shoe shopping budget. The price difference between Alexander Wang’s hit “Parental Advisory” top, which appeared on runways last month, and a nearly identical shirt that’s been for sale at Urban Outfitters since April. Photos selected by Scott Lipps for his new photo book, “Poplipps: Plus One,” out this week. He’s the founder of the modeling agency One Management, whose clients (and portrait subjects) include the lanky likes of Helena Christensen, Claudia Schiffer and Poppy Delevingne. It’s an unparalleled specimen in the burgeoning field of aspirational lifestyle studies.

Dollars that the New York City Opera failed to raise out of a needed $7 million before announcing it will “dissolve and file for bankruptcy.” A tragic loss for music lovers and costume lovers alike. Instagram of the Week “OMG Baby Bambi custom shirt for North!!! On Monday evening, a few hours after the sun has set on the vast glass roof of the historic Grand Palais in Paris, all eyes will be on the man described as "the Prince of Darkness". Will the hollow-eyed fashion genius Hedi Slimane, the man appointed creative director at Yves Saint Laurent last year, rise from the catwalk to triumph over the critical forces of evil? Or will he be thrown to the impeccably groomed wolverines sitting in the front rows, much as the iconoclastic artists, including Matisse, were in this same place a century ago? The last time Slimane was here in October to show off his first womenswear collection for the fashion house, the jury was out on whether it was a success. The influential New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn thought not, saying it "lacked a new fashion spirit" and that she "expected more from his debut", earning herself a petulant rebuke from the designer and a ban – possibly lifelong – from his runway shows.

Others moaned that Slimane, 44, had usurped the French fashion demigod Yves Saint Laurent by removing his first name from the brand title.
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Few haute couture houses are as famous as YSL, which ranks along with Dior and Chanel as a French national institution and is considerably greater than the sum of its three letter trademark that Slimane has controversially dumped.
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Fashion critic Suzy Menkes said at the time that Slimane's "sharp eye and scissors" had revolutionised Saint Laurent menswear. Slimane moved to Christian Dior Homme in 2001 until 2007 when he left to return to his first love, fashion and portrait photography, and completed, among other things, a picture documentary of 18 months in the life of Britain's rock bad boy, Pete Doherty. He was appointed creative director of YSL in 2012, when as well as revamping the logo he moved the fashion house's design HQ to Los Angeles. Fashion historian Bronwyn Cosgrave said: "Moving the atelier to LA seemed crazy for a venerable Parisian couture house, but this is where the business is these days. Hollywood is the new catwalk, it's the actresses who wear these clothes, so he's in the right zone. Saint Laurent doesn't do couture any more, it is about a different lifestyle, a modern aesthetic, and they had to rebrand." Surprisingly, dropping Yves's name caused more outrage, but Imran Amed, the founder and editor of the website Business of Fashion, said: "When Yves Saint Laurent first launched his ready-to-wear line it was called Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, so, in a way, this rebranding makes sense.

The consumer response is the important thing. In the fashion industry you have to give these things time to play out." Patricia Romatet, director of studies and consultancy at the French Institute of Fashion, said taking the Yves out of Yves Saint Laurent was far from Slimane imposing his own ego on the fashion house. "In fact it means it is less not more personalised. It's like when Christian Dior became Dior, or Coco Chanel, Chanel. We're now seeing Saint Laurent as a brand rather than a person." She said: "Slimane's first collection was been criticised, but it sold, so economically it was successful. Saint Laurent should incarnate a certain Parisien, rive gauche chic, but it needs to become more 21st century. I am confident Hedi Slimane can give the brand a fresh breath of life." Of course, high fashion is far more than expensive frocks in France, where apart from the contribution it makes to the national economy, it is considered part of the country's heritage.

"It's thanks to the great Parisien fashion houses like Dior, Chanel and YSL that the word 'French' is still synonymous with chic style and luxury," said Alice Rawsthorn, author of Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography. "The French idolise Yves Saint Laurent as one of the greatest fashion designers of the 20th century but also because he conformed perfectly to the Gallic stereotype of a fragile designer who suffered for his art. He is an impossible act to follow because of the scale of his achievements and his versatility. Other great designers like Balenciaga, Chanel and Dior were known for specific styles and techniques, but Saint Laurent was such a virtuoso that he mastered them all." Indeed, when Saint Laurent retired from his business in 2002 he declared, "high fashion is finished," and lamented there was nobody left to replace him as the high priest of haute couture. Paris-based Lucy Pinter, designer of Kate Moss's favourite Superfine denims and credited along with Slimane with the revival of "skinny" jeans, said the Saint Laurent creative director was "a genius – Hedi has always had a great strong signature;