Fashion Lover? Visit Paris For The Yves Saint Laurent Exhibition
Paris is a fascinating and cultural city at any time, but coming later in January visitors can enjoy a unique fashion exhibition paying tribute to the late French designer Yves Saint Laurent. Meanwhile, the exhibition, titled Yves Saint Laurent Aux Musées will spread over six of the city’s top museums. Find out more about how you can experience this unique fashion exhibition in Paris.
Yves Saint Laurent Exhibition takes over Paris
To mark the 60th anniversary of Yves Saint Laurent’s debut collection, a unique fashion exhibition is set to take over Paris. Six of the top museums in the “City of Light” will host tributes to the late French designer.
Yves Saint Laurent, then aged 26, presented his first fashion collection in 1962, changing the course of women’s fashion. His designs moved away from the structured dresses and ultra-feminine look of the 1950s into androgynous fashion designs made to dress women in masculine styles never seen before on fashion runways. The designs included trench coats, tuxedos, tailored pantsuits and peacoats.
Fast forward 60 years and Paris will now pay tribute to the late designer with a massive exhibition, taking over six of the city’s leading museums: the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Picasso Museum, and the Yves Saint Laurent Museum.
The exhibition launches on January 29 and runs through May 15, and will showcase YSL’s most iconic styles, along with the art that inspired them, including tributes to Matisse, Picasso, Mondrian and more.
Yves Saint Laurent Aux Musées
Speaking to the Guardian, exhibition curator Mouna Mekouar, explained that an exhibition on this scale has never before been held in Paris.
“I thought it would be impossible to get so many museums to agree to our idea, but they were all very interested and hugely enthusiastic from the beginning. It is the first time they have all worked together on one project,” Mekouar added.
At the Louvre, an exhibit will be held at the Galerie d’Apollon, where patrons will see how gold, light and jewels inspired the embroidery of Yves Saint Lauren.
The Musée d’Orsay exhibit explores the designer’s connections with Marcel Proust and how the novelist’s ideas of gender and sexuality influenced the dress codes of YSL. In the Centre Pompidou, the famous Mondrian shift dress from 1965 will display alongside the painting that influenced it.
Meanwhile, the Yves Saint Laurent Museum will use carefully preserved archive materials to provide insight into the designer’s creative processes.
In a press release, the organizers of Yves Saint Laurent Aux Musées wrote, “This archive and the exhibitions at the partner museums will enable us to retrace the unique creative journey of Yves Saint Laurent.”
“Conceived as a sort of archipelago, the exhibition will offer new forms of dialogue and encourage visitors to create their own itineraries from one museum to another.”
Meanwhile, the Yves Saint Laurent Aux Musées event will run at the same time in each of the six museums in Paris, starting January 29. While officially the exhibition is set to run through May 15, some exhibits will continue later into the year. Readers can find more information on each exhibit on the individual museums’ websites and entry costs vary per museum.
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