On warm summer evenings I like to stroll through an abandoned English garden. Break the silence, only the whispering leaves of the trees, the tower of the castle in a Victorian style reminiscent of civilization. I love mentally transported here in the past, in those days, when everything was different: life, art, and fashion. B the past, I have chosen two images of an ideal man: one has aged, calm and stately, and the other was a young conqueror. Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen — are so different, but they share a desire to transform the world.

Yves Saint Laurent was born in 1936. His name has already become a classic, but whether he was a classic for his contemporaries? Bizarre fate, which is "dumped" from one design house to another -what would he become, if not life itself?

We used to rate famous people with regard to their creations. Meanwhile, Yves Saint Laurent became my first person. The perfect way to daydream on a warm summer evening. And it's not difficult fate. Yves Saint Laurent is the perfect image of his era, which stood at the turn of the times. Left behind ancient traditions, classics and canons, ahead of there was a time for discoveries and future progress. The combination of old and new, past present and future changes — would the house of Dior for his real home?

All designers — pioneers. All unmistakably feel the sense of time and fashion and are not afraid to experiment. What has become a classic for you — was a revelation to the contemporaries of art. Yves Saint Laurent drew his inspiration from distant lands, past eras, in the art of Matisse and Picasso. He endured their clients in ancient China, Peru, Morocco, Equatorial Africa, or in a delicate Venice since the Renaissance. He experimented with styles and combinations of colors, sometimes hitting the audience, sometimes shocking, but always staying true to your taste. Collection "Chinese women" or "Russian ballet", an introduction to fashion transparent blouses or vinyl raincoats... It is a revolution in the world of women's clothing, forever securing the fair sex the right to choose pants or a jacket with a masculine cut, tuxedo or Bermuda shorts. In a man's world, he added elegance and refinement, which were lacking after the brutal military uniform. He was able to light the fire of desire and appeal, where before you saw only respectability.

Now the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent, as before, is a home of impeccable style and high-end fashion. Geniuses can resign, but the innovations that they brought into this world and caused him to sparkle with new colors, remain forever.

So Yves Saint Laurent began for me this summer evening image of an ideal man, embodying a unique combination of the traditions and identity of seductive originality.

The elegance and the desire to experiment against the hard sensuality and the desire to shock the audience... Haute couture can be quite different.

This another great way is embodied in the person of Alexander McQueen, a contemporary techno-era and the "bad rock hero" who violated all the canons of classical Haute couture. Although broke them rightly.

Young Scot is rightly revolutionizes the old fashion houses. Art Director for Givenchy, is not afraid to deviate from aristocracy in the direction of scandalous PR and the dictates of self. Dictator?

It creates a new image of the modern woman, calling himself a "male feminist". A shocking, double-breasted jackets, military-themed lace inserts — if Yves Saint Laurent believed that a woman is truly attractive in men's clothing, Alexander McQueen adds female, aggression, sensuality and independence. McQueen himself did not believe aggression is just self-defense.

And yet, he's not just a brawler in the fashion world. Along with avant-garde things, McQueen creates a completely rational pret-a-porte. Of its model life and is seductive. The designer believes that his clothes should have so much momentum that not to buy it would be simply impossible. And if his first collection, released in the house Givenchy, was attacked the press, now his creations have a long line of eminent persons.

When the revolution in high fashion become a classic? Contemporaries often questioned the new couture collection. After years and decades, these collections are equal to the following generation of designers. Alexander McQueen is not afraid to create the world as it only exists in his vision, the world will become a model of style in the future. Before our eyes the history and art of the designer is not questioned. The perfect image can be not only a classic, revolutionaries and that they are destroying the canons, and add life sharpness. As and dreams.

..the leaves rustling under my feet, absorbing the flavors of summer. The men I met today in the Park, reminiscent of the revolutionaries and the classics in one. Each mysterious in its uniqueness, each original and sensual. And images: the perfect man is only a reflection of life itself. The reflection in the world , in art, in high fashion.