The Seattle Art Museum’s stunning exhibit of legendary designer Yves St Laurent highlighting his 44 year career , is not the first retrospective ever mounted in this country, but it does include some wonderful new acquisitions from the collection of the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent that have never been shown publicly before.
Yves St Laurent : The Perfection on Style has a selection of over 100 haute couture and SAINT LAURENT rive gauche garments, as well as many accessories, photographs, drawings, films, and other multimedia elements from the Foundation’s vast archive. Besides finished garments, the exhibition presents Saint Laurent’s immersive working process from his first sketch and fabric selection to the various stages of production and fitting before a final garment was realized.
A must for any fashionista or aficionados of the days when fashion was crafted by inspirational talented geniuses whose passion and style really revolutionized the world. So worth jumping on a plane to go to Seattle immediately.
The Exhibition is co-curated by Florence Müller, the Avenir Foundation Curator of Textile Art and Curator of Fashion at the Denver Art Museum, in collaboration with Chiyo Ishikawa, SAM’s Deputy Director for Art and Curator of European Painting and Sculpture.
October 11 2016 – January 8 2017
http://ysl.site.seattleartmuseum.org/about-the-exhibition/
P.S. queerguru suggests you may also like these related articles of reviews of movies featuring YSL https:// queerguru.com/2013/05/lamour-fou-2, https:// queerguru.com/2015/03/saint-laurent and https:// queerguru.com/2014/04/yves-st-laurent
