Yves Saint Laurent wasn’t scared to offer glimpses of the our bodies of the ladies who wore his creations (fairly the opposite). Now, the Yves Saint Laurent Museum has opened an exhibition on the topic – Sheer – The diaphanous creations of Yves Saint Laurent – with Anne Dressen as curator and design by architect Pauline Marchetti.
For a dressmaker usually tasked with overlaying our bodies, permitting the physique to be seen is sort of a contradiction, a sartorial recreation of disguise and search, generally even a recreation of seduction.
Over his 40 years of making, Yves Saint Laurent repeatedly used quite a few totally different materials of assorted transparencies – mousseline, tuile and naturally lace – in addition to different manner of showing the physique, by means of embroidery for instance.
These supplies gave girls a method to affirm their personalities and present their delight, their insolence, and their audacity.
Introduced in 5 sections, the exhibition shows roughly forty YSL items, together with the designer’s first ‘bare breast’ shirt from 1968 and quite a few rarely-seen attire.
Accompanying these are explanations in regards to the designer’s artistic course of, with patterns, sketches, equipment (hats, sneakers, jewelry…) and quite a few images.
In juxtaposition with Yves Saint Laurent’s creations additionally, you will be capable to see works by fashionable and up to date artists (drawings by Anne Bourse, images by Man Ray…) impressed by transparency, and very similar to a vogue present, the exhibition finishes with some marriage ceremony attire, the place the superimposed layers of tuile make the material opaque.
If you wish to discover the topic of the exhibition additional, a one-hour guided go to ‘Uncover the artistic course of‘ is out there from 4th March – 1st July 2024 at 2.30pm (50€ per particular person, e book right here) and the official catalogue (112 pages, 35€) is out there right here out of your native Amazon.
The exhibition Sheer – The diaphanous creations of Yves Saint Laurent is on the Yves Saint Laurent Museum (ici) till twenty fifth August 2024
Open day by day besides Mondays from 11am-6pm (9pm Thursdays)
Admission: 10€ / 7€
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