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So, at any rate, the tribute-payers are saying. "Pure genius", "the world’s greatest fashion designer", "the most important designer of the. 20th century": such superlatives have been lavished on Yves Saint Laurent for years, and perhaps they are not meant to be taken at face value. The fashion business is, after all, a part of the entertainment industry, where sycophancy, exaggeration and gushing insincerity are not unknown. Mr. Saint Laurent fitted perfectly into it.
He was, for a start, quite literally a showman, a shy and stage-frightened one, but what shows he could put on!Dazzling girls smarted down the catwalk, wearing startling creations of gauze, or velvet, or feathers, or not much at all. He was an artist, a delicate, attenuated figure who drew his inspiration from the pages of Marcel Proust, the paintings ofBraque, Matisse, Picasso and Van Gogh, and the counsels of his assistant, Loulou de la Falaise.And he was troubled: by drink, by drugs and by physical frailty. He teetered perpetually on the brink of emotional collapse and sometimes fell over it.
In 1961, when Mt. Saint Laurent set up shop in Paris under his own name, most couturiers were not quite like this.But the times were propitious for something new. He had by then done a stint at the House ofDior, whose reputation he had restored with some dramatic designs and, in 1958, after the famous founder had died, an iconoclastic collection of his own. The summous to do military service, a ghastly mental dégringolade and dismissal fromDior then intervened, and might have cut short a great career had he not gone into partnership with Mr.Berg6.As it was, a series of innovations followed, with Mr. Saint Lament responsible for the designs, Mr.Berg6 for the business, including the scents, scarves, unguents and over 100 other products marketed with a YSL label.
The dress designs now started flying off Mr. Saint Laurent’s drawing board, though increasingly often with the aid of helpers. Many were short-lived, this being fashion and fashion being, by definition, ephemeral.But two departures were to last. One was that haute couture, hitherto available only to the very rich or vicariously through magazines and newspapers, should be sold worldwide in ready-to-wear shops at a fraction of the posh price. The other was that women should be put into men’s clothes—safari outfits, smoking jackets, trench coats and, most enduringly, trouser suits. Women, for some reason, saw this as liberation.
He was always imaginative, taking inspiration not just from artists like Mondrian but also fromAfrica and Russian ballet. He was also capable of creating the absurd, producing, for example, a dress with conical bosoms more likely to impale than to support.But his clothes, however outr6, were usually redeemed by wonderful colors and exquisite tailoring.Above all, they were stylish, and the best have certainly stood the test of time.
That is no doubt because most were unusually wearable, even comfortable.At a reverential extravaganza in (and outside) the PompidouCentre in Paris in 2002, soon after Mr. Saint Laurent had announced his retirement, many of the guests wore a lovingly preserved YSL garment. The "ana
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[定位] 根据题目直接定位到第2段。 [解析] 第2段提到，最高级形式的溢美之词毫不吝啬地用在了伊夫·圣洛朗的身上，而在娱乐界，“sycophancy”，夸大其词和虚伪做作并非罕见。从意思衔接上来看，“sycophancy”应该与exaggeration and gushing insincerity一起呼应前面提到的superlatives。D中的flattery“阿谀奉承”符合语境，故正确。 [点睛] 词汇理解题。A中的slander意为“诽谤”，B中的calumny意为“污蔑，诽谤”，两项是同义项，可同时排除；C中的fame意为“名誉”，与 exaggeration and gushing insincerity不能构成并列的语义，也可排除。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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