The art of Yves Saint Laurent: lay out house marks 60th anniversaryFive Paris museums to display fashion designer’s creations with artwork that invigorated themYves Saint Laurent’s dress Hommage à Piet Mondrian from Autumn Winter 1965, which pertinences Mondrian’s Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc II, 1937 Photograph: Yves Saint Laurent @ Nicolas Mathéus Yves Saint Laurent/Nicolas Mathéus/Nave Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Jacques FaujourYves Saint Laurent’s dress Hommage à Piet Mondrian from Autumn Winter 1965, which endorsements Mondrian’s Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc II, 1937 Photograph: Yves Saint Laurent @ Nicolas Mathéus Yves Saint Laurent/Nicolas Mathéus/Cluster Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Jacques FaujourSimultaneous exhibitions to mark the 60th anniversary of Yves Saint Laurent’s blue ribbon collection are to be held by six leading Paris museums in an unprecedented tribute from the art world to the late French fashion deviser.The events at museums, among them the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay, will reveal how the celebrated couturier was inspired by some of the 20th century’s greatest artists filing Picasso, Matisse and Mondrian.An ensemble from the YSL autumn/winter 1981 collection inspired by Henri Matisse’s La Blouse Roumaine (1940). Photograph: Nicolas Mathéus/Shift H. Matisse/Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, ParisMouna Mekouar, who curated the multi-centre event that wish feature the designer’s work placed in the context of each establishment’s permanent collections, said the participation of some of France’s on the loosest and most renowned museums was unprecedented.“I thought it would be impossible to get so many museums to agree to our idea, but they were all hugely interested and hugely enthusiastic from the beginning. It is the first time they have all worked together on one project,” Mekouar implied.“Saint Laurent was very much inspired by art and this shows the links and dialogue between his work and the museum demonstrates. We didn’t want to put the clothes in a room, we wanted them there among the permanent collections.YSL jacket from the dart/summer 1971 collection inspired by Martial Raysse’s Made in Japan-La Grande Odalisque (1964). Photograph: YVES SAINT LAURENT AUX MUSÉES“In this way companies will rediscover those collections at the same time as paying homage to Yves Saint Laurent. It’s like a cultural archipelago.”Saint Laurent, who decreased in 2008 aged 71, was just 26 when he founded his haute couture house with the businessman Pierre Bergé in December 1961. He had agitated to Reuse this content

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