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Are you in the mood for a little fashion exhibition ? If you’re in Paris at the moment, be quick, it’s your last chance this weekend to see the Yves Saint Laurent exhibition by the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent . We owe much to the man Yves Saint Laurent, among many things the first smoking for women, black and equally masculine and feminine, and just as classy as Chanel‘s little black dress.
Yves Saint Laurent in two exhibitions
The Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent has devoted its 15th exhibition to the ready-to-wear brand Saint Laurent rive gauche, whose aim was to offer a more affordable collection to a wider public. In a decor that immitates the very first Saint Laurent rive gauche boutique on rue de Tournon in Paris which opened now 45 ans ago, we can discover almost 70 models. You might have had the opportunity of visiting the Yves Saint Laurent retrospective at the Petit Palais last year (March- August 2010) which retraced 40 years of haute couture designing and immersed you in his univers of perfection and awoken dreams. At any rate this retrospective’s success (over 300 000 visiteurs) gave the idea for an supplementary exhibition that this time focuses on how Yves Saint Laurent positionned himself socially and politically when he made the important and unprecedented decision of launching a ready-to-wear line in his name. The exhibition however ends tomorrow July 17th 2011.
If you’re not in Paris this summer, remains the Yves Saint Laurent and Morocco exhibition at the Villa des Arts in Casablanca unde the High Patronage of H.M. King Mohammed VI. The Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech and the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent presented for the first time in Morocco an axhibition of numerous models by the designer. Why so ? Yves Saint Laurent was very much inspired by Marocco, a country he cherished deeply for its creative thrive and rich and adorned elegance in dress. In his own way, and faithful to his vision of fashion he adopted and reinvented the djellaba, the jabador, the burnous, the tarbouch… The exhibition won the hearts of 47 000 visitors and is today welcomed by the Villa des Arts, Fondation ONA, and will equally end tomorrow.
And if you haven’t had the time to visit either, a catalogue of the Saint Laurent rive gauche exhibition is available for sale at 35€ (I’ll grant you that it’s not as great as seeing it with your own eyes but we’ll make do with what we have!)
