Ordained by fashion empress and Costume Institute doyenne Diana Vreeland as a "living genius" and the "Pied Piper of fashion" at his Metropolitan Museum retrospective in 1983, the fashion elite have long since continued link to employ the term "genius" and its worthy synonyms whenever describing Saint Laurent. This is similar to the way link in which watch enthusiasts praise Gerald Genta, who we so link often refer to as the genius trailblazer of horology, for changing the course of modern watch design.