"In an elevator with Kathryn Bigelow and Richard Gere riding up to Mick Jagger's flat"

The real question is: What can you take out of streetwear? Girls are all wearing miniskirts and leggings and leather jackets. We’ve already seen all of this. Streetwear never taught me anything. Consider this: Yves Saint Laurent was one of the first designers to revisit vintage. If you read his biography, you’ll see it. He used to go to London to the first secondhand markets and find clothes from the 30s. That’s how he invented the tuxedo. He bought a man’s smoking jacket and put it on one of his muses. That’s how most of his innovations began. Today you can do that type of research, but it’s hard to create a story like that, because too many have already been told about almost everything.

— This interview with YSL’s designer Stefano Pilati is absolutely amazing. (“When people enter our store they imagine cashmeres, silk cravats, shirts in crepe de chine, crocodile shoes. Obviously, we make them, but it’s like hitting myself in the balls.”) Also contains the phrase “when I found myself in an elevator with Kathryn Bigelow and Richard Gere riding up to Mick Jagger’s flat.” HEAVEN.