A 1971 portrait of Yves Saint Laurent by Jeanloup Sieff. A collaborative project involving six Paris museums is marking 60 years since the first catwalk show in 1962 of Saint Laurent’s eponymous fashion house.
From Picasso to Proust, celebration of Yves Saint Laurent at six Paris museums highlights art and literature’s influence on his fashion
- Sixty years after the French fashion designer held his first catwalk show, museums from the Louvre to the Centre Pompidou are looking back at his career
- In different ways they show the bond Saint Laurent’s work had with art and literature, from his homage to Piet Mondrian to his passion for writer Marcel Proust
A 1971 portrait of Yves Saint Laurent by Jeanloup Sieff. A collaborative project involving six Paris museums is marking 60 years since the first catwalk show in 1962 of Saint Laurent’s eponymous fashion house.
