Since today marks the start of Paris Fashion Week, there is no time like the present to find inspiration in art and fashion.
Yves Saint Laurent spent his entire career paying tribute to artists: Mondrian, Matisse, Picasso, Poliakoff, Warhol, Wesselman, Van Gogh, Vasarely—and there are several others. Now, six museums across Paris are paying tribute to him through a sprawling exhibition that showcases his art connoisseurship, creative genius, and imaginative savoir-faire.
Those with an avidity for all things Saint Laurent will want to cover the six institutions, but the pleasure of this multi-stop exhibition, organized by and displaying the archives of the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, is that visitors need not follow any prescribed order.
Since today marks the start of Paris Fashion Week, there is no time like the present to find inspiration in these juxtapositions. “The idea is to try and understand the links that fashion weaves with art, the bridges that exist between art and fashion,” says Mekouar of her first curator project involving fashion. In the spirit of the six participating museums, here are six additional takeaways.
Saint Laurent insisted his intention was never to make wearable reproductions of the art he admired. “I have not copied them—who would venture to do so?” reads one of his many quotes scattered throughout the museums. Instead, he referred to this process as, and the Mondrian three-hole dress from 1965 remains among the most famous designs of the 20th century.
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