Monday, June 02, 2008

An Icon Has Passed Away

This Sunday, it was reported that one of the great ones in the human fashion industry, Frenchman Yves Saint Laurent (pronounced approx. 'Yv Son Loron'), has passed away. Yves Saint Laurent inherited the legacy of Christian Dior and was the creator of many aspects of fashion that humans now take for granted, such as the woman pant suit.

As a show dog, I feel rather close to the world of haute-couture. What we show dogs do in the show ring, the models of the great fashion houses do on the runway: we define how a dog or a human is supposed to look. What a lot of dog breeders do for the dogs, a few fashion creators do for haute-couture. This is fascinating. If I was a human, perhaps I would have wanted to be a fashion icon. In that case, I would have introduced Shiba Inu black and tan paterns into haute-couture.

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