{"id":66362,"date":"2019-05-07T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/style\/the-new-face-of-yves-saint-laurent\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:12:11","slug":"the-new-face-of-yves-saint-laurent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/style\/the-new-face-of-yves-saint-laurent\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Face of Yves Saint Laurent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saint Laurent\u2019s Le Smoking jacket has found voice and muse over the decades since its conception<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Best recognised for its monochromatic black and white palettes, the House of Yves Saint Laurent pursues an enigmatic elegance through its chic and sharp apparel. If you have ever donned one of Saint Laurent\u2019s signature apparel\u2014Le Smoking Jacket\u2014, you\u2019d feel a tightness that extends from your shoulder blade down to your latissimus dorsi (colloquially known as lats). Accentuated by its monochromatic hues, the apparel tightly adheres to the wearer\u2019s physique to create the totemic look.<\/p>\n

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Yves Saint Laurent, then 18, won the prestigious Woolmark Prize for the dress category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Yves Saint Laurent is the eponymous brand of the namesake legend, who, himself at the tender age of 18, won the Woolmark Prize\u2014 adjudicated by revered designers Christian Dior and Hubert de Givenchy\u2014and was the world\u2019s youngest couturier when he took over Dior aged 21. In his 71 years, he was the avant-garde of Parisian haut couture\u2014adrogynising the gender dichotomy by masculinising the feminine and emasculating the masculine.<\/p>\n

Since Saint Laurent\u2019s retirement, his successors, Messers Tom Ford and later, Hedi Slimane, while infusing their unique vogue, did not stray far from Saint Laurent\u2019s quintessence of the rebellious yet sophisticated, chic yet edgy design language. This year, Saint Laurent storms the fashion podium with its FW19 collection headlined by none other than Keanu Reeves.<\/p>\n

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Reeves spotting YSL\u2019s classic aviator sunglasses and the black pinstripe blazer from the FW19 collection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Clad in Saint Laurent\u2019s FW19\u2019s black pinstripe blazer and aviator sunglasses, Reeves, the 54-year old former protagonist of The Matrix, spots a scruffy beard and tousled chin-length hair. While the post-modern action star might seem an odd choice as Saint Laurent\u2019s newest brand ambassador, the phlegmatic multi-hyphenate celebrity couldn\u2019t have been a better pick to model for Yves Saint Laurent\u2014 in fact, LUXUO dares commit to state of fact that Reeves is a fairly literal manifestation of Saint Laurent\u2019s vogue.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFrom Neo to Wick, Reeves often portrays characters of few words while often dressed in even fewer hues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In recent times, Hollywood\u2019s most stoic celebrity (judging from the internet\u2019s multiple \u201csad Keanu\u201d memes) has starred in the popular John Wick series and a host of other films, where he plays variations of a central theme \u2013 a sangfroid bloke. Celebrated not just for his acting virtuosity (often men of few words), he is also conversant in other forms of performance, \u201cmoonlighting\u201d as a bass guitarist in the grunge rock band, Dogstar. His association with rock music stirs a raucous mental image of the unorthodoxy typical of Yves Saint Laurent. Taken together, his imperturbable screen persona edged by his rock band history, Reeves suitability as Saint Laurent\u2019s new face is evidenced by the monochrome.<\/p>\n

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Reeves in YSL\u2019s iconic black leather trucker-style jacket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

David sims, the 52 year old British fashion photographer, is the lynchpin to the seamless coalescence between Reeves and Saint Laurent. In a photo, Sims captured Reeves donning the couturier\u2019s iconic black leather jacket, which had reflected light in the precise proportion such that it exemplified the leather\u2019s luxurious feel. Impassively, Reeves looked into the camera; his soul-searching gaze inspires even the nonchalant to study the deliberate subtleties of the prized ware.<\/p>\n

Reeves collaboration with Yves Saint Laurent is heralded as the perfect union, a brilliant partnership that had interwoven the former\u2019s silent disposition with the latter\u2019s edgy vogue.<\/p>\n

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