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Paris Collection Fashion Show July 27, 1983

Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1983-84 Collection. Long, narrow dress in black silk velvet with a bodice and a huge bow in pink silk satin.

Défilé de la collection Paris 27 juillet 1983

Yves Saint Laurent Collection Haute Couture Automne/Hiver 1983-84. Longue robe étroite en velours de soie noir avec un corsage et un énorme nœud en satin de soie rose.

September 11, 2021

Those who remember that day  always mention the blueness of the sky that morning, as if to underscore our collective innocence, as if two of those three numerals already anticipated the human will to counter implacable gravity’s grievous toll.

Yet words unscroll in waves horizontal, wresting time’s arrow from the  abysses     of space, reminding us that the gap between  |  and  |  is all we are given  to nurture in the land of  the living, that  tensile arc always lifting our feet from the ground, suspending our fixity —

not an instant frozen in time but eternity measured in grief-stricken- ness, the living brought down to the  land of the dead — who remind us  to resume the ascent, to exhume meaning from the rubble at our feet, to pry apart those 1’s just far enough to let others pass through.