French Writer and Fashion Critic Janie Samet Dies at 91

Over the following five decades, Samet would witness the transformation of fashion, becoming “its eye and memory,” stated Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive officer of LVMH Group. “She was close to all those who, since the 1950s, through audacity and imagination, brought Parisian creation to all continents,” he continued, noting that Samet “loved the materials as much as the style,” attending shows from big houses and young designers alike.

Sidney Toledano, chairman and CEO of LVMH Fashion Group and president of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture called Samet “one of the greatest fashion journalists in the world”; an “outstanding professional, always very rigorous in all that she wrote” and someone who “knew perfectly that couture had to be evaluated over several shows and, often, several years.”

While couture would remain her favorite field, Samet would support a number of designers who emerged in ready-to-wear over the years, such as Chantal Thomass, Claude Montana, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and most recently,They likewise awaited the next day’s column with bated breath and holding back tears — joy or relief would depend on what Samet wrote, Thomass said, recalling how “terrified” she and her contemporaries were of this figure of the “couture generation.

The word “reporter” fit Samet best, Lacroix continued, remembering her with a notebook at hand, “scribbling what she gleaned in any circumstances, a show, a cocktail or even a funeral, bringing you to the essential in a few words before saying ‘thank you, that’s what I needed.’” He lauded her “loyalty to [her] publication and respect of the reader,” which made her “difficult to gauge because she never lost sight of [who] her readers [were],” particularly in her 25-year tenure at Le Figaro.

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