Fashion fans have an appointment in Paris at the end of this month, when the great exhibition project will be kicked off ‘Yves Saint Laurent at the Museums’, With which Six major museums in the French capital will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the influential designer’s first fashion show with several retrospectives for your fashion house.
It’s about a ambitious exhibition program who will review the work of the great couturier born in Oran (Algeria) on August 1, 1936 and died in Paris on June 1, 2008. To the designer and businessman, considered one of the main ones of the second half of the 20th century, creator of the women’s tuxedo in the 1960s, promoter of the revival of haute couture in the 80s and one of the first to include non-Caucasian models in his shows, all the exhibitions will be dedicated, in which address his legacy with topics ranging from how he shaped fashion and influenced future generations to their creative abilities and their links with the art world, which was both a passion and a source of inspiration.
Six Parisian museums will showcase models by the prestigious haute couture brand Yves Saint Laurent along with the works of art that inspired them. Great authors like Picasso, Mondrian y Matisse they were the designer’s inspiration for dresses that were considered revolutionary in their day (and still are in ours). The official name of the project is ‘Yves Saint Laurent Aux Musèes’.
Historical date
It was on January 29, 1962 when the young Yves Saint Laurent presented his first collection under his own name, at 30 bis rue Spontini in Paris, where he already presented his unique style. However, at the age of 26, the designer was not exactly a beginner, having already been called in to replace Christian Dior, who had suddenly died a few years earlier. What was on display that day, however, was a collection that will never be forgotten in the fashion world: the ‘Trapéze Line’ (‘trapeze line’ in French), which became an instant hit. In that first fashion show, Yves Saint Laurent separated himself from the teacher. Instead of Dior’s signature cinched waist, he created a more fluid silhouette below which the body disappeared. He made his mark with less fabric and a lighter approach that changed the course of fashion. It was a success that still marks young designers today. It was the starting point of characteristic style which became associated with Yves Saint Laurent, which would continue to refine and expand over the years, influenced by different artistic worlds.
The anniversary exhibition ‘Yves Saint Laurent aux Musées’ (Yves Saint Laurent in museums), an unprecedented format in the world of fashion, not only aims to highlight the creative power of the great French couturier through a wide panoramic of his most emblematic works, models, as well as some lesser known pieces, but also to establish a dialogue between his creations and the permanent collections of various museums in Paris, thus paying tribute to his unbreakable bond with the art world.
Sample-archipelago
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Conceived as a kind of archipelago, the exhibition will offer new forms of dialogue and will encourage visitors to create your own itineraries from one museum to another, taking them to a less familiar or new aesthetic terrain. “‘Yves Saint Laurent aux Musées’ seeks to go beyond the traditional framework of an exhibition, playing with multiple affinities, unsuspected connections. The exhibition offers, as a result, a new perspective on the work of Yves Saint Laurent”, reads the press release Yves Saint Laurent Museum Paris.
Organized by the Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, the exhibition will be held simultaneously in six museums in Paris from January 29 to September 18, 2022. The designer’s creative journey will be traversed at the Center Pompidou, the Museum of Art Modern Paris, the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée National Picasso-Paris and, of course, the Yves Saint Laurent Paris Museum. This museum, dedicated to the designer, will display some of the fashion house’s archives, most of which have never been displayed before.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com