In Paris I went to see the Yves Saint Laurent exposition at the Petit Palais. It was a celebration of all of his work as a coutourier, starting from the beginning (with Dior), and passing through years of scandalous and contested collections, but also truly admired ones.
This incredible retrospective was made possible thanks to the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, who collected thousands of garments, sketches and accessories since 2002 and arranged them for the Petit Palais. So I had the chance to see a huge variety of exceptional pieces all together, and I hope you'll believe me if I tell you that I started to shiver and I had tears in my eyes. Can't really explain why, maybe because I realized (this time for real), what a genuine artist and genius he was. Simply that.
He made garments for strong and independent women, and even to help women to be stronger! And the sad thing is that he always had to fight to make people understand his innovative concepts.
Everything was there exposed, even his very first tuxedo (followed by a black wall recovered of tens of smokings) and his tribute to Mondrian (the Mondrian dress), which has became a myth.
2002 was the year of his retirement. In January 23 of 2002, a retrospective of more than 300 pieces took place at Centre George Pompidou, celebrating 40 years of "maison" YSL.
If you're interested you have time until August 29 to see it. Enjoy.
The Mondrian dress (fall-winter 1965)
First Tuxedo (fall-winter 1966)
Le Coeur, YSL designed it and used to combine it with the most representative pieces of his collections during the shows.
Catherine Deneuve, his greatest supporter and muse.
Advertising campaign for the first eau de toilette pour homme, shot by Jeanloup Sieff in 1971
photo sources: Me, Style.it, Vogue.it
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