Stefano Pilati Works Through Anxieties With Symbolic Ad Campaigns

Although we were disturbed to read Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati damn his predecessor with faint praise (“Tom [Ford] is talented but not gifted. That’s the way he managed the business.”) in Lynn Hirschberg’s recent New York Times Magazine profile, he does reveal the thinking behind the fashion house’s recent ad campaigns. The dazzling spring/summer 2008 campaign (pictured above), photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, featured Kate Moss lurking outside Paris’s Pierre