WRITTEN IN FRENCH
On January 29, 1971, Yves Saint Laurent presented his spring-summer haute couture collection: square shoulders, printed dresses-blouses, furs and wedge soles paraded in the salons of 30 bis, rue Spontini.
The reactions of the public and the press are one of dislike and dismay for these...
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WRITTEN IN FRENCH
On January 29, 1971, Yves Saint Laurent presented his spring-summer haute couture collection: square shoulders, printed dresses-blouses, furs and wedge soles paraded in the salons of 30 bis, rue Spontini.
The reactions of the public and the press are one of dislike and dismay for these lines, clearly inspired by the years of war and occupation. The collection, deemed "the ugliest in Paris", was nevertheless immediately adopted by the street. By inventing the "retro" style, Yves Saint Laurent brought fashion into modernity.
The Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent. preciously preserves the archives of the haute couture house: models, original sketches, workshop sheets, fabric samples and fashion show photographs. Conceived from all these documents, witnesses of the different stages of creation, this book allows us to reconstruct the eighty-four passages of this "collection of scandal" that definitively marked the history of fashion.
Exhibition Yves Saint Laurent 1971 The Scandal Collection from 19 March to 19 July 2015 at the Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent.
French
169 pages
Flammarion / Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint-Laurent
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