Rarely has a designer drawn inspiration from artists like Yves Saint Laurent, so it makes sense that the new director of the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris comes with an art-world pedigree.
“Yves Saint Laurent Aux Musées” saw the couturier’s designs displayed at the Centre Pompidou, the Louvre Museum, the Musée d’Orsay, the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Picasso Museum alongside some of the artworks that inspired them.
“It’s a great idea because everyone stands to gain from it. Not only does it look wonderful, but all the Paris museums told us it really boosted their visitor numbers. Fashion draws in people in a way that art probably doesn’t,” she added., and has brought a wealth of connections. One of her key hires was Serena Bucalo-Mussely, curator and head of collections at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum, who previously was a curator at the Giacometti Foundation.
For the catalog of the “Shapes & Forms” exhibition, she asked Julien Fronsacq, chief curator at the MAMCO contemporary art museum in Geneva, to write a text about how Saint Laurent’s black-and-white designs fed off artists like Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich. The first leg opened in Calais on June 24, and the Paris show is scheduled for February. “Here, the idea is really to explore how you show transparent pieces without a body,” Janssen said. “You have to work on absence, empty space and light. We’re also talking with Anne about potentially inviting one or two artists.”was a success, drawing 132,000 visitors over the course of its seven-month run, which ended in May.
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