It’s been four weeks since Yves Saint Laurent announced the departure of creative director Stefano Pilati, although onstage last night at the French Institute Alliance Française, he certainly didn’t look like a man unhappy at being out of work. Pilati was there to chat with Pamela Golbin, curator of fashion and textiles at Paris’s Les Arts Décoratifs, in…

As we mentioned yesterday, today see’s the premier of Yves Saint Laurent’s and Ari Marcopoulos’ film “No Way Back”. The film was made to represent the vision of Stefano Pilati’s s 2011 Spring/Summer collection and focusses on Hollywood based Tattoo artist Mark Mahoney. Link: HB

YSL and Atelier New York creating a capsule collection together is very much a sign of the way traditional fashion houses are approaching the market today. When I first heard of this collaboration, I was amazed that such a house would consider creating product alongside an independent retailer, but in hindsight, its in keeping with…