Adieu Yves Saint Laurent
Friday, June 20, 2008 by Shreyas
YSL, the fashion guru of Paris passed away recently. Now you may wonder why a Tamil guy, student who has totally no sense of fashion as in à la Paris style wants to bid adieu to YSL. Rewind 10 years back.I get a phone call from one perverted friend of mine - "Machan..There's a new channel right after NDTV in VHF band..Check it out ..Semmaya irukku" . Given my sincerity and studiousness, I was hoping to see something on the lines of Discovery Channel or National Geographic. And then I tuned, and once I reached the given specifications by my friend, the remote stopped searching further. Whoa! What was that? Seeing something like that in the tube(as against other media which I deny the cognizance of) was initially fun, surprising, shocking and a whole lot of mixed feelings.
And yeah, it took a Mambalam boy on a virtual tour of Paris, Cannes, Rio and New York. For one who thought fashion was Jeans and T-shirt, it introduced Spring Summer & Fall Winter collections, Haute Couture and Lingerie. For one who believed the hottest tailors were Glamor Tailors & DressLand in Mambalam and Vogue (a costly but effective one) in Ashok Nagar, it shattered that belief into pieces by bringing in Armani, Roberto Cavalli and Gucci before the eyes. It made mamis in madisar and lasses in churidhar passé. For one who grew up marking half-yearly exam dates on large font Sundaram Finance calendar, it explained how even calendars can be exciting by showing the making of the Pirelli calendar. Maths tution figures, WWF, cricket matches gave way to Rio Carnival, Cannes Film Festival in class room discussions.
The joy and bliss of millions of adolescent Indian youths and quite a number of oldies was finally checked by one powerful lady from Delhi who thought this channel was the main culprit in spoiling the Indian culture. But by then it was sufficient for the Mambalam boy to know about everything from Ritu Beri to wardrobe malfunction. And among other things he came to know about YSL also (the bespectacled old man who always walked with 2 babes on the ramp).
YSL's death on June 1 marked the end of a saga in the French fashion industry.
No points for guessing what the channel was.
And yeah, it took a Mambalam boy on a virtual tour of Paris, Cannes, Rio and New York. For one who thought fashion was Jeans and T-shirt, it introduced Spring Summer & Fall Winter collections, Haute Couture and Lingerie. For one who believed the hottest tailors were Glamor Tailors & DressLand in Mambalam and Vogue (a costly but effective one) in Ashok Nagar, it shattered that belief into pieces by bringing in Armani, Roberto Cavalli and Gucci before the eyes. It made mamis in madisar and lasses in churidhar passé. For one who grew up marking half-yearly exam dates on large font Sundaram Finance calendar, it explained how even calendars can be exciting by showing the making of the Pirelli calendar. Maths tution figures, WWF, cricket matches gave way to Rio Carnival, Cannes Film Festival in class room discussions.
The joy and bliss of millions of adolescent Indian youths and quite a number of oldies was finally checked by one powerful lady from Delhi who thought this channel was the main culprit in spoiling the Indian culture. But by then it was sufficient for the Mambalam boy to know about everything from Ritu Beri to wardrobe malfunction. And among other things he came to know about YSL also (the bespectacled old man who always walked with 2 babes on the ramp).
YSL's death on June 1 marked the end of a saga in the French fashion industry.
No points for guessing what the channel was.
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