![]() Style is Eternal will open at the Bowes in July and run until October. He launched his own fashion house with Bergé in 1962, and a ready-to-wear boutique in 1966. Saint Laurent envisioned the Russian peasant class with a sense of ease and detached nostalgia during a time of global tensions between the Soviet Bloc and the West. From museum-worthy vintage Oscar de la Renta evening dresses and jackets to audacious T-shirts and trousers from provocative punk designer Vivienne Westwood. Category 1970s French Coats and Outerwear. ![]() The exhibition will be the museum’s first thematic show since its opening in 2017, and will run from Oct. Dior then died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1957, leaving the 21-year-old as the head of a major fashion house. 1976 Yves Saint Laurent Russian Collection black velvet coat with black cord trim, shiny black. He had a huge collection of books, many of them about Chinese art. Born in Algeria in 1936, he was chosen by another legendary designer, Christian Dior, as his successor. Saint Laurent’s work was often hailed as crossing the boundary between fashion and art, and was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York as early as 1983. “We are also thrilled to work, alongside the Fondation Pierre Bergé–Yves Saint Laurent, on an innovative display that will introduce a dialogue between the designer’s body of work and the Bowes Museum’s collection.” Joanna Hashagen, curator of fashion at the Bowes, called the exhibition of “one of the most influential fashion designers of all time” a great moment in the museum’s history. The museum has a room devoted to photography, which shows a series of Saint Laurents muse, French actress Catherine Deneuve, shot by German fashion. The single most historic Saint Laurent collection is the so-called ‘Russian peasant’ collection from 1976, which was very heavily dependent on her accessories, Petkanas said. ![]() Together they planned a museum to bring the arts of the world to the people of Durham and, although the building was completed only after their deaths, they left a collection of 15,000 objects to fill it, including paintings by El Greco, Canaletto and Goya, Sèvres porcelain and the Silver Swan, a lifesize, 18th-century automaton that is still set working every day. Saint Laurent said of the painter: Mondrian is purity and one can go no further in purity in painting. ![]() He was the child of the 10th Earl of Strathmore and one of the estate workers, Maria Millner, who wed when the earl was on his deathbed to secure their son’s succession.Īlthough the will was bitterly contested by other members of the family, he became rich on the coal on his Teesdale land, and married a beautiful actor, Joséphine Coffin-Chevalier, after meeting her in a theatre he owned in Paris. Saint Laurent was known for his passion for fine art, owning an extensive collection which influenced his work and six cocktail dresses in this collection were inspired by the paintings of Mondrian. The museum was the legacy of John and Joséphine Bowes, a couple as exotic as their creation. The Musée d’Orsay will feature some of the evening wear he created for the Proust Ball to mark the 100th birthday of the writer whose guests dressed by Saint Laurent included Baron Guy de Rothschild and Jane Birkin.One of Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrian dresses. This large, beautifully illustrated edition features both YSL garments and the artworks that inspired them, from five major art museums in Paris. 1975 Culture: French Medium: silk Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009 Gift of Youseff Rizkallah, 1986 Accession Number: 2009.300. At the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Saint Laurent designs will echo the colours of the artists Pierre Bonnard and Raoul Dufy. Designer: Yves Saint Laurent (French (born Algeria) Oran 19362008 Paris) Date: ca. A permanent display of the French designer's haute couture creations can be viewed at two different museums in Paris and Marrakesh dedicated entirely to his works. At the Louvre there will be some of his most exceptional garments, including jackets embroidered with gold and crystals. The six museums taking part in Yves Saint Laurent Aux Musées, which runs from 29 January to 15 May, are the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée Picasso and the Musée Yves Saint Laurent.Įach will feature different aspects of Saint Laurent’s work. “How could I resist pop art that was the expression of my youth.” Photograph: Succession Picasso - Gestion droits d'auteur/YVES SAINT LAURENT AUX MUSÉES A YSL jacket from the autumn/winter 1979 collection inspired by Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Nusch Éluard (1937).
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