Sheer: The diaphanous creations of Yves Saint Laurent

Paris (F) > 09.02. - 25.08.2024

The exhibition Sheer: The diaphanous creations of Yves Saint Laurent will be on display at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris from February 9 to August 25, 2024. It will be the second chapter of a story that began last summer at the Museum of Lace and Fashion in Calais. For the exhibition’s next stop, in Paris, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris invited the curator Anne Dressen to be its artistic advisor; she will focus on transparency as a chosen artistic expression of Yves Saint Laurent. The exhibition has been designed by the architect Pauline Marchetti, whose work explores the intersection of perception and space. Few articles of clothing are entirely transparent. In theory, transparency is incompatible with the very function of clothing, which is to cover the body, conceal or protect it. Intrigued by this contradiction, and by the powerful role diaphanous fabrics could play in his work, Yves Saint Laurent began using materials such as chiffon, lace and tulle in the 1960s. Like a leitmotif, he regularly employed transparency during his forty creative years, at times alongside embroidered or opaque fabrics. He daringly reconciled these contradictions, allowing women to proudly and boldly assert their bodies.

Text- und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

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Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris
5 avenue Marceau
Paris
Frankreich

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