To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Yves Saint Laurent’s first fashion show, six Parisian museums are exhibiting the work and inspirations of the couturier as part of an exhibition soberly titled “Yves Saint Laurent in museums”.
It took six museums celebrating Yves Saint Laurent for the sixtieth anniversary of his first fashion show. The Pompidou Center, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Orsay Museum, the Picasso-Paris National Museum and the Yves Saint Laurent Paris Museum will offer from January 29 to May 15, 2022 an exceptional course entitled “Yves Saint Laurent at the museums” to meet the couturier’s imagination.
It’s the January 29, 1962 that Yves Saint Laurent, then 26 years old, presents his first collection in his own name after a few years at the head of the artistic direction of Dior. will follow four decades of career (he retired from the fashion world in 2002) and fashion shows that left their mark. Like the collection Release of 1971 which creates the scandal because it is inspired by the look of women at the end of the Second World War. Nourished by the arts, her creations are inspired by mondrian (a dress bears his name in the fall-winter 1965-1966 haute couture collection), picasso or Marcel Proust.
It is these links that deciphers the anniversary exhibition “Yves Saint Laurent in museums” with a different theme addressed in each of these cultural establishments. The opportunity to see the jacket adorned with sunflowers again Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh, the post-impressionist ensembles in the style of Pierre Bonnard or the famous photograph of the naked couturier captured by Jeanloup Sieff. “Yves Saint Laurent at the museums” and us too !