Yves Saint Laurent

I like pretty things (don't we all?), but I actually had no idea that some designer items (or is it all?) are named after the designer himself/ herself. Here's a list of a few designer items I checked on Google very quickly:

• Yves Saint Laurent by Yves Saint Laurent
• Marc by Marc Jacobs (okay, this was really obvious since it says that on all items I've seen so far)
• Dior by Christian Dior
• Chanel by Coco Chanel
• Louis Vuitton by Louis Vuitton (this I had no idea until now!)

I thought this only happened in the academic world:

• Cramér–Rao bound, named in honor of Harald Cramér and Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
• Black–Scholes model by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes

I can't believe I've lived a little more than a quarter of a century and I didn't know that. To be fair, if I had designed something, I'd probably want my name to live on forever. So it does make sense. I think I am going to come up with a super-complicated actuarial equation and make the lives of future actuaries a living hell 50 years from now. Muahahahaha~ That, and I will be immortalised in equations and the Table (actuaries, you get this. The Table.)

Anyway, back to YSL, I found this on Facebook and liked it. But the more I think about what it means, the more confused I get. Did he mean that how the dress is presented by the wearer is important or that the dress had to be designed to suit the body of the wearer? Hmm~