If you're well-versed in all things Yves Saint Laurent, then you know all about Manifesto, the luxury French fashion house's seasonal publication featuring a collection of exclusive interviews and imagery curated by YSL creative director Stefano Pilati. And you certainly know about the guerilla distribution of the limited edition tote bag that carries it. For the next eight consecutive seasons, 2,000 lucky bystanders on the streets in major cities will be handed the covetable Manifesto tote, along with a large format look book that features model Arizona Muse shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

Stefano Pilati's latest collection for Yves Saint Laurent has me feeling very inspired. These were new clothes with modern silhouettes and proportions we haven't seen before. Sure, there were references, particularly to the 40s shapes I've been seeing everywhere this season, but at YSL they were shaken up and transformed into something entirely new and directional. There were high-waisted shorts that flared out paired with stacked sandals and cut away vests, and a leopard print cumberbund that cinched at the waist and tucked into pants.

On the coattails of the launch of his menswear for women collection called Unisex, YSL's Stefano Pilati is dipping his sartorial toes into the eco-friendly fashion pool. Come June 8, the French fashion house will introduce New Vintage, "a capsule line of classic Saint Laurent pieces (the bustier dress, the tailored jacket, the trench coat) cut from the unused cloth of past collections," says the New York Times' Karin Nelson. The collection will be sold exclusively at Barneys (and is surely at least in part the brainchild of Julie Gilhart, Barney's revered buyer notorious for her eco-friendly fashionable pursuits).