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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Yves Saint Laurent, Haute Couture Spring 1988

BoF’s Editor-at-Large revisits his top fashion shows of all time, starting with the first Paris presentation he ever covered, back in the go-go Eighties.
Katoucha Niane walks the runway during Yves Saint Laurent's Spring/Summer 1988 couture show | Source: Getty Images

In 1988, a writer from a local fashion magazine in Toronto was clearly small beans to Denise Dubois. The formidable redhead who, as press director of the Chambre Syndicale, the organisation that controls the Paris collections, had the ultimate yea-or-nay over who received show invitations. But I had an ace up my sleeve. The equally formidable Krystyne Griffin was, at that time, the President of Yves

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