“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. 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.
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