The American garden designer is president of the Fondation Pierre Bergé–Yves Saint Laurent and one of the exhibition’s curators. “Yves Saint Laurent-the man, the creator-occupies a very particular place within French culture, a very magical place for many French of a certain generation,” said Madison Cox. (Henri Matisse? Claude Monet? Pablo Picasso? Non, non, et non.) Never before have the French capital’s fine art institutions come together in this way-with minimalist scenography from designer Jasmin Oezcebi as a unifying thread-not even for the finest and most famous of French artists. Hommage à Piet Mondrian, a dress from Saint Laurent’s fall-winter 1965 collection.
The Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée National Picasso-Paris, and the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris are simultaneously displaying a selection of Saint Laurent’s most iconic designs-including dresses that translate paintings by the likes of Pierre Bonnard and Piet Mondrian, “like masses of colors in motion,” as he described them-within their permanent collections. Now, the late couturier has become the subject of another first: “Yves Saint Laurent aux Musées,” an exhibition spanning six of Paris’s most iconic museums (open now until May 15, 2022), all of which Saint Laurent frequented.
In 1983, Saint Laurent became the first living fashion designer to have a retrospective of his works in an art institution, curated by none other than Diana Vreeland, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over the next four decades, the Frenchman came to be known not just as a designer, but as one who interwove fashion and the fine arts-a career that aptly culminated in 2002 with his final runway show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The book showcases hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks, and set designs.On January 29, 1962, a 26-year-old Yves Saint Laurent staged the first show for his eponymous haute couture house with his business partner and then-lover, Pierre Bergé.
This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically and ending in 2002, the year that Yves Saint Laurent retired from the company he started.Įach collection is introduced by a short text elucidating its influences and highlights and is illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images, each season styled as the designer intended and worn by the world’s top models. From Yves Saint Laurent’s revolutionary and enduringly popular tuxedo suit for women, le smoking, to iconic art-inspired creations, from Mondrian dresses to precious Van Gogh embroidery and the famous Ballets Russes collection, the house’s haute couture line has been hugely influential in changing the way modern women dress. A spectacular visual journey through 40 years of haute couture from one of the best-known and most trend-setting brands in fashionįounded in 1962 by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé, the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent has for more than half a century been synonymous with excellence in modern and iconic style.
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