Marie Gicquel, edited by Laura Laplaud 11:46 a.m., February 04, 2022

In six Parisian museums including the Musée d'Orsay and the Louvre, the creations of the famous couturier Yves Saint-Laurent are exhibited in the permanent collections.

An initiative to highlight the influence of painters in the work of the couturier but also to allow visitors to rediscover these collections often overshadowed by exhibitions.

This is an unprecedented exhibition: that of Yves Saint-Laurent.

For the 60th anniversary of the first parade of his fashion house, the designer's outfits are exhibited in the capital's museums.

Dresses, jackets and tuxedos inspired by the great painters.

The Center Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Louvre Museum, the Orsay Museum, the Picasso-Paris National Museum and the Yves Saint Laurent Paris Museum are joining forces to host his most beautiful pieces and pay homage to the stylist who died in 2008.

The couturier's links with art

Yves Saint-Laurent was steeped in art.

Between his apartment, close to the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, lined with Warhol and Goya and his office with hundreds of books on painting.

The couturier's dresses, with dark fabrics and the same moving lines, are placed at the feet of Matisse's huge dance paintings.

An obvious correspondence for Charlotte Barat, curator: "We all know, I think, her Mondrian dress, but it's true that the dresses, for example, inspired by Bonnard, I did not know them", she confides.

"In general, all this inspiration that he was able to find from plastic artists, it was really something incredible to discover."

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This is the first time that so many museums have teamed up around an artist.

"Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé had the genius to keep a lot of things, and it is from all these archives that we were able to make our proposals", explains Mouna Mekouar, one of the commissioners of the project.

Sometimes, the parallel between painting and sewing is obvious.

Example with this iconic jacket named "Tournesol" with yellow and gold embroidery 600 hours of work and a tribute to Vincent Van Gogh.

An exhibition to see from January 29 to May 15, 2022.