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Retrospective Yves Saint-Laurent

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 | Main events | No Comments

The first retrospective Yves Saint Laurent, currently at the Petit Palais

Until August 29, the Petit Palais presents the first retrospective devoted to the work of the designer Yves Saint Laurent. Occuring less than two years after the death of the Haute-Couture French grand-name, this exhibition is a tribute to 40 years of career that revolutionnized fashion. 

Initiated by the Pierre Bergé, his partner for over 50 years, and president of the Foundation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, and the Museum of Fine – Arts of Paris, the exhibition presents more than 300 models as well as many sketches, documents, and films in order to illustrate his extraordinary work.

Since the start of hit career at Dior in 1958, to the gorgeous evening dresses of his last years of creation, emblematic parts of the “Saint-Laurent style” are presented to the public, tracing the evolution of dress codes at the end of the 20th century: cabans, safari-jacket, tuxedo or pants-suit, Saint-Laurent drew for the modern woman an androgynous silhouette, which borrows from the men’s locker room attributes of power.

An exciting exhibition to discover or rediscover the models which have freed women, and radically transformed her wardrode.

Petit Palais
Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
+33 1 53 43 40 00

Access
Métros 1-13,
Champs-Elysées- Clémenceau
 
Opening times
Tue – Sun 10.00 – 18.00
Night opening on Thursday

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