I personally love unconditionnally Yves Saint Laurent (Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent) and Coco Chanel (Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel) who are I think the biggest designers of all time (I know I am completely buyist here). What I love about Chanel is not really the "total look" that she created (known as the "ensemble" in French referring to the Chanel suit: matching top and bottom) but her play on masculine/feminine codes. She used a lot of masculine clothes (from a British boyfriend "Boy" or Arthur Capel) especially his tweed suits and jersey, which was not really popular at the time. Of course she would change it around a little bit, making men's clothes her own. Yves Saint Laurent used the same idea when he invented the "Smoking" (women tuxedo). Chanel liberated women and so did Saint Laurent, they both claimed to understand what women really wanted and expressed it with their clothes.
This is just an hommage to their creation and their geniuses!
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