YVES SAINT LAURENT : THE PERFECTION OF STYLE @VMFA

Human Peacock! Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)

At 21, young adults in the US come of legal drinking age; some graduate college and many undertake jobs or travels. For Yves Saint Laurent, 21 is the age he falls heir to Creative Directorship at Christian Dior, jump starting a 44-year endeavor of 'perfecting style.' Saint Laurent's 1982 statement, "I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style" inspires Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style, a retrospective curated by French Historian Florence Müller and Chiyo Ishikawa of the Seattle Art Museum. The traveling exhibit is on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts until August 27th. Keep Reading for a look inside...                                            

PARIS REFASHIONED 1957 - 1968

#ParisRefashioned at The Museum at FIT // Trench coats by Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) and Courregès 

Striving to rival stylistic counterparts London and New York, Paris reinvents "fashion" in a post-World War 2 economy. Between 1957 and 1968, an emergence of fresh designers capitalizing on pop culture's influence--and answering the demand of prêt-a-porter--begins to alter the Parisian trademark of haute couture. Coinciding with Paris Fashion Week, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) fêtes the opening of its latest endeavor Paris Refashioned: 1957-1968. Reaching into collection archives, FIT Museum curator Colleen Hill conjures a surprisingly respectable exhibit of clothing by French designers changing the fashion climate at the time. Keep reading for a look inside...

YVES SAINT LAURENT + HALSTON: FASHIONING THE 70s

 Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashion: Fashioning the 70s at the Museum at FIT

Wedged in between the Flower Power 60s and preppy, sports-inspired 80s, the disco era of the 1970s was wrought with residual hints of hippie chic and an emerging punk culture. As emblazoning new designers engaged in exploratory endeavors, Algerian-born Yves Saint Laurent and American Roy Halston Frowick defined and developed fashion in the 'decade fashion forgot.' Until April 18th, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology presents Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashioning the 70s, an exhibit comparing select works of two designers with careers on parallel paths and an overlapping aesthetic in the stylistically stagnant 70s. Keep reading for a look inside the exhibit...