WHITE LIGHT
ANY FASHION JUNKIE worth their salt knows about the supposed rivalry between Yves Saint Laurent and the late Karl Lagerfeld. Not so many would know that apparently, this all began in 1954, when the pair, Saint Laurent, then 18, and Lagerfeld, 21, were up against each other for a prestigious design award in Paris. Rather than crown one a winner, the vote was split — Lagerfeld for best coat, Saint Laurent for best dress — and, so the legend goes, the conflict was born. This prize was an early incarnation of
