Created as a dialogue between art and fashion, the exhibition “Yves Saint-Laurent at the Museums” celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first fashion show of the designer, who died in 2008. The exhibition is on view until May 15.
For the sixtieth anniversary of Yves Saint-Laurent‘s very first fashion show in the French capital, six emblematic museums are hosting works by the couturier. This exceptional retrospective “Yves Saint Laurent at the museums” highlights the special relationship Yves Saint Laurent had with art, sculpture, painting … and how he transposed it into his creations.
On January 29, 1962, Yves Saint Laurent was 26 years old and organized his very first fashion show at 30 bis rue Spontini, a few weeks after creating his fashion house. Very quickly inspired by the world of art, he declared: “I believe that the work of a couturier is very close to that of an artist. I have constantly drawn inspiration from the work of contemporary painters: Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian“. Madison Cox, president of the Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent Foundation explains that the idea came to them to create “pop-up spaces of these various inspirational universes in the permanent installations of the museums“.
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