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  • Fuuma
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2006
    • 4050

    Yves Saint Laurent exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts



    http://www.mmfa.qc.ca/en/expositions...ition_121.html


    Yves Saint Laurent





    May 29 to September 28, 2008







    Yves Saint-Laurent




    In partnership with the Fondation Pierre Bergé ? Yves Saint Laurent, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are presenting the first retrospective spanning the forty years of creativity of the Maison Haute Couture Yves Saint Laurent. Presented from May 29 to September 28, 2008, the exhibition Yves Saint Laurent focusses on this virtuoso of haute couture, whose unique style blends references to the world of art with allusions to pop culture and social revolution. Structured around four themes, the exhibition develops the revolutionary nature of a body of work that has marked both the past and the present with a new definition of femininity and left a signature that transcends fashion. The display will include 160 accessorized creations belonging to the Fondation PierreBergé ? Yves Saint Laurent, as well as drawings and videos. After Montreal, the exhibition will be presented at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, from November 1, 2008, to March 1, 2009.




    Yves Saint Laurent is famed for revolutionizing the haute couture tradition and laying the foundations of modern women?s wear. The wardrobe basics that he designed ? pantsuit, culotte skirt, pea coat, blazer, safari jacket and tuxedo ­? shone with his innovative style and became true timeless classics. His designs were equally remarkable, reflecting wide-ranging sources of inspiration. In Saint Laurent?s stylistic vocabulary, music, art, performance, literature and impressions of far-off places were just as important as the new shapes he introduced.




    The exhibition?s themes
    The exhibition will be divided into four themes: ?Masterful Pencil Strokes,? where the designer?s idea is followed from the original sketch; ?The YSL Revolution,? where feminized versions of men?s attire rub shoulders with seductive apparel; ?The Palette,? which shows how traditional rules of colour harmony were reversed in new contrasts inspired by cross-fertilization; and ?Lyrical Sources,? which explores the historical, literary (Proust, Oscar Wilde, Louis Aragon, Jean Cocteau?) and artistic influences that were interpreted and translated by this genius of couture. Throughout his career, Yves Saint Laurent has taken the time to examine the work of the great artists of our day, expressing his personal tastes and the paintings he admires by transforming painting into fabric. Some of his models take up the visual sensations of Impressionism, while others liberate the expressive power of some of the great names and movements of modern art: Mondrian and Poliakoff in 1965, the Pop Art dresses in 1966, Picasso in 1979 and Braque in 1988.










    Evening Ensemble




    Yves Saint Laurent, Biographical Notes
    Born in 1936, Yves Saint Laurent spent his childhood in Algeria. Moving to Paris in 1954 to take design courses at the Chambre syndicale de la haute couture, he caught the eye of Christian Dior and was hired as his assistant the following year. He took the reins of the House of Dior after the master?s death in 1957 and swiftly rose to triumphant fame with his Trapeze line. In 1958, he met Pierre Bergé, then a theatre director and stage producer, who went on to manage his career. With Bergé?s help, Saint Laurent founded his own maison de haute couture. On January 29, 1962, he unveiled his first collection under the Yves Saint Laurentlabel, an array of dazzling creations stamped with the inimitable style for which he will always be known. Pioneering the couturier move into the ready-to-wear market, Saint Laurent also designed costumes and sets for such famous ballets and plays as Cyrano de Bergerac (1959) and The Marriage of Figaro (1964), and for films including The Pink Panther (1963) and Stavisky (1974). He also dressed a number of actresses, the most famous being Catherine Deneuve. On January 7, 2002, Yves Saint Laurent announced to the press his retirement and the closure of his maison de haute couture. On January 22, a crowd of 2,000 admirers from around the world gathered to celebrate his career at a valedictory fashion show staged in Paris. Since stepping down, he has worked with Pierre Bergé managing the Fondation Pierre Bergé ? Yves Saint Laurent, which holds a remarkable collection of more than 5,000 ensembles and 15,000 objects that trace the history of the House of Yves Saint Laurent. Yves Saint Laurent not only transformed the world of women?s fashion, but is also the first living haute couture designer to be honoured by a museum. In 1983, the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented the very first exhibition on Yves Saint Laurent, which later travelled to Beijing, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Paris, Sydney and Tokyo. In 1985, he was awarded the ?Oscar du plus grand couturier? at the Paris Opera House for lifetime achievement in fashion.










    Wedding Dress




    Exhibition Curators
    The French fashion historian Florence Müller has shared her passion for and knowledge of French fashion and haute couture with Diane Charbonneau, Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Jill D?Alessandro, associate curator, Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Department of Textile Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.




    Credits
    This exhibition is made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Fondation Pierre Bergé ? Yves Saint Laurent, in particular its president, Pierre Bergé, as well as Dominique Deroche, communications manager, and Sophie Aurand, exhibition co-ordinator.




    The Agence NC in Paris will be responsible for the design of the international travelling exhibition.




    The international exhibition programme of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts receives financial support from the Exhibition Fund of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Foundation and the Paul G. Desmarais Fund.




    Publication
    A lavishly illustrated catalogue with texts by Florence Müller and Hamish Bowles accompanies the exhibition. Published in separate English and French editions by Éditions de La Martinière, it distinguishes itself from previous publications devoted to Yves Saint Laurent through its presentation of little-known ensembles and detailed captions, as well as a thematic overview accompanied by explanatory texts. It includes photos by Alexandre Guirkinger that were shot especially for this publication.

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  • BECOMING-INTENSE
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2008
    • 1868

    #2
    Re: Yves Saint Laurent exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts



    See there is an exhibition, I would have loved to go to.
    I'll just slip into my grandfathers vintage Yves Saint Laurent smoking,
    and somehow I might just feel I was there. [51]



    Thank you, Fuuma! [8-|]

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    Of course.

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    • Faust
      kitsch killer
      • Sep 2006
      • 37852

      #3
      Re: Yves Saint Laurent exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

      agreed!
      Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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      • Fuuma
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2006
        • 4050

        #4
        Re: Yves Saint Laurent exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

        The book also sounds interesting. BTW this thing will surely travel, at least to San Francisco.
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        • bakla
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2006
          • 902

          #5
          Re: Yves Saint Laurent exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

          If you read "A Beautiful Fall," it puts YSL's genius into a completely different (although not negative) light.

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