This season, the velvet jacket has proven to be a key player in design. Celebs like Kanye (during Paris Fashion week), Will Smith (at the Seven Pounds premiere) and Mark Ronson have all taken an liking to the soft-to-the-touch material. Unlike your regular yacht club-ready blue blazer, the velvet jacket adds an air of casual luxury to any formal situation.
Check out how some of fashion’s heavyweights'like Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, and Salvatore Ferragamo'are tackling the trend, and then vote on whether you HUMP or DUMP the style…
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Today marks the tragic loss of fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent. Over the past 40 years, the French designer helped change the face of women’s fashion by introducing capes, sweaters, trousersuits and blazers'an upscale, professional look that has now become his legacy. He’s even credited with the first usage of pants in a women’s runway show.
Even if you’re not the high-fashion type, Saint Laurent’s influence is all around us: Kanye saw Vegas on acid through his glasses on “Diamonds From Sierra Leone,” and the iconic YSL logo crossed the border into streetwear when the typeface was parodied by the Chicago boutique St. Alfred. In 2002, Laurent sold the brand to Gucci, where the brand continued trailblazing women’s fashion and introduced its men’s line. After the jump, take a look the smoking-hot Kate Moss from this year’s Spring/Summer lookbook, and some of the new menswear. R.I.P. YSL.
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