Fashion never stands still. The latest shake-up doesn’t involve revolving doors, but a change of address: After more than four decades on the tony Avenue George V, Saint Laurent will be moving its headquarters to the bohemian Left Bank in 2018. This relocation is highly symbolic and another example of how creative director and change agent Hedi Slimane is, as Nathan Heller noted in Vogue, actively tweaking the soigné roots of the house toward something cooler. The Los Angeles–based Slimane has no interest in b.c.b.g. bon chic, bon genre, a sort of codified good taste; rather he’s fascinated by grunge and glam, as evidenced by the rock chicks, with their winged eyes and ripped fishnets he sent down the runway for fall.
