Exhibition “Yves Saint Laurent in museums”: the artistic fiber of a pioneer
His parades were inspired by the paintings of Mondrian, Matisse, Bonnard… An exhibition distributed in six Parisian museums recounts the links that the couturier forged during his life between fashion and art.
On January 29, 1962, in a salon at 30 bis, rue Spontini, in Paris, 26-year-old Yves Saint Laurent presented the first collection bearing his name. A woman in a navy blue peacoat and off-white pants walks across the gray carpet. The masculine inspiration, the wide cuts blow a wind of freedom on fashion. For the shy couturier, fired from Dior in 1960 for anti-militarism and depression, a long reign begins...
Sixty years later, he entered museums: on January 29, 2022, six of them (read the box at the bottom of the article) raised his creation to the rank of national heritage. This consecration is the fruit of patient work: Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (1936-2008) is the first to have archived his production. At a time when fashion was not kept, the couturier and his companion, Pierre Bergé [shareholder of the Le Monde group, until his death in 2017, editor's note], decided, in 1964, to keep the prototypes, those clothes that are only worn on the day of the parades. And which are “like the first print of a lithograph, specifies Aurélie Samuel, curator of the collections at the Yves Saint Laurent Paris museum. It is the original document, the one from which the models are then made to measure for the clients”.
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