LAILA TOKIO—the Tokyo archive whose holdings have become a lodestar for curators, critics, and designers alike—welcomes our founder Yusuke Koishi to its YouTube series. Moving through the world’s first virtual museum, LA MUSEUM, Koishi and a cadre of frontline voices from fashion and contemporary art interrogate rare garments in real time, weaving them into the larger fabric of cultural history.
In the concluding episode, Koishi embarks on a critical reappraisal of the man long anointed the emperor of couture—Yves Saint Laurent—probing why his legacy still commands such reverence and where it might invite revision. From there he tackles the very act of writing fashion history: who holds the pen, whose stories get told, and how those narratives shape the industry’s collective memory. Along the way, he draws an incisive map of today’s sartorial terrain—marking its new continents, fault lines, and quiet revolutions.