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My Inspiring Muses

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faar_ysl_03We all have heard that behind every great designers there’s always a “MUSE” who prominently influenced and inspired designers in designing their collection. The late Yves Saint Laurent considered Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux as his muses, Audrey Hepburn was the muse of Hubert de Givenchy, Sofia Coppola is known as a prominent muse to Marc Jacobs during his early career, Lady Amanda Harlech to Karl Lagerfeld, Carine Roitfeld to Tom Ford, Hayes Peebles to Hedi Slimane. Although it is also common that designers love to shift and add newest muses to their list from time to time. Remember my last post about “The Model as Muse” exhibition where models were celebrated as muses in fashion. Not only designers have their own muses, photographers, fashion editors, painters, writers, sculptors, movie directors, songwriters, even regular people just like me and you may have our very own “muse(s)”.

(left pic : Yves Saint Laurent with his muses, Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, photo courtesy of wmagazine.com)

Muses could be anyone, it doesn’t limit you to some specific people. But it seems that people tend to choose famous faces and public figures to be their muses, from models, actresses, singer, musicians, politicians, senators, athletes, astronauts, billionaires, socialites, scientists, activists, mathematicians, doctors, and to more religious ones, like the Prophet, Mother Teresa, Dalai Lama or the Pope. Ordinary people could also be someone else’s muses like, your mother, your friend’s mother, grandma, aunt, neighbor, your BFF, sister, coworker, teacher, and many many more. It is not hard to understand why people tend to look up to other people as an inspirational figure to their life. It’s part of human nature to have that special someone that we idolize, admire and give us tremendous inspirations in life.

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