The jacket of the season is united with a rock legend
Keith Richards’ Blood Luster
Keith Richards in Saint Laurent – Blood Luster
We’ve been waiting for it to happen, and now it has. Keith Richards is the first rock icon to claim Saint Laurent’s Blood Luster souvenir teddy, the jacket of the entire SS14 season, as custom stagewear.
Performing with The Stones in Tokyo as part of a sold-out three night residency, the band thundered through a nineteen song set including fan vote winner Silver Train, which had its first outing since 1973.
It was John Pasche who created The Rolling Stones’ legendary tongue-and-lip logo in 1971, originally appearing on Sticky Fingers, whose artwork (and working zip) was conceptualised by Andy Warhol and photographed by Billy Name. Pasche’s red pout is a visual that stands as legendary in its own way as Adolphe Mouron Cassandre’s YSL monogram – both have transcended language to become huge cultural landmarks, beyond time or geography.
That Richards should claim a vampiric, toxic echo of such a graphic, created without reference by Brattleboro, Vermont residing artist Luke Thomas on an intricately embellished jacket by the Parisian house, is perfect – a conceptual case of If You Build It They Will Come.
Thomas also creates sleeves for his brother King Tuff’s discs, put out through Sub Pop and Burger Records. The universe made Keith Richards wear this jacket.
HERO MAGAZINE Saint Laurent Men SS14 Blood Luster
SETLIST – THE ROLLING STONES, TOKYO DOME, 4TH MARCH 2014
Start Me Up
You Got Me Rocking
It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It)
Tumbling Dice
Angie
Doom And Gloom
Silver Train (fan vote, with Mick Taylor)
Honky Tonk Women
Slipping Away (with Keith Richards on lead vocals and Mick Taylor joining on guitar)
Happy (with Keith Richards on lead vocals)
Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)
Miss You
Paint It Black
Gimme Shelter
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Sympathy For The Devil
Brown Sugar
ENCORE
You Can’t Always Get What You Want (with the Senzoku Freshman Singers)
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (with Mick Taylor)
14 ON FIRE TOURING BAND
Mick Jagger
Keith Richards
Charlie Watts
Ronnie Wood
Mick Taylor (special guest)
Darryl Jones
Chuck Leavell
Bobby Keys
Tim Ries
Lisa Fischer