Last year, 2022, saw a groundswell of homage around the founding of Yves Saint Laurent’s couture house 60 years ago, in 1962. The celebration continues at the Museum for Lace and Fashion in Calais, France, with an exhibition on Saint Laurent’s relationship with lace. Organized by Anne-Claire Laronde, the museum’s chief heritage curator, the show lays out the ways the designer used lace—a textile both delicate and strong, decorative and see-through—to play with illusion and nudity, and to create powerful shapes within shapes. The Musée Yves Saint Laurent has co-produced the show. —Laura Jacobs
The Arts Intel Report
Yves Saint Laurent: Transparencies
Marina Schiano in a dress from the Yves Saint Laurent Fall-Winter 1970 collection.
When
June 24 – Nov 12, 2023
Where
135 Quai du Commerce, 62100 Calais, France
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Photo: © Yves Saint Laurent/© Estate Jeanloup Sieff