ten red hen

Ellen Sebastian Chang speaks of the idea of the "tyranny of authenticity" as an enemy of art--it's an idea I've been thinking a lot about in the past few months. We went to the Yves Saint Laurent exhibit at the DeYoung today, which was smaller than I expected it to be but still quite overwhelming. In a video on his life, the following quotation from him about what is so important and glorious about fashion:

"A woman becomes bewitching when she cheats, when Artifice enters the picture."

Just looking at his work--and thinking about fashion that way--fashion is not supposed to be about the tyranny of being perfect--just appearing so.