Yves Saint Laurent Exhibit

Yves Saint Laurent: the Retrospective exhibit in Denver, Colorado Art Museum through July8, 2012.
More than 200 haute couture outfits are on display. Previously in Paris and Madrid, this will be the only stop in the U.S.
Marian

 

Actually, its first stop was Montreal during the summer of 2009 I think it was... and it was FABULOUS. My only complaint about it was that there were too many artifacts. I went through it three times and I couldn't take it all in.

 

You too MJ? I can't even remember what was in that middle room with the bridge - there were what 120 evening dresses from the 70s - 90s. I remember one of them was leopard with sequins - that's the ONLY one I remember. But the early stuff was just breathtaking - the African collection was stunning....

 

One of these days I have to do a tour of great exhibitions - they're much skimpier here, with some only having a few dozen displays! Wish I was in NYC to see the Schiaparelli/Prada - anyone seen that yet?

 

Linn, the San Francisco show was the same as the Montreal show - maybe this one is a retooled version. The one in Montreal and S.F. was put together while YSL was sill alive. He died shortly after it opened.

 

I would love to go, but with only a few weeks left to the exhibit, I can't see how I can make that. You are so fortunate to have been able to attend.

I met a woman recently who had just attended the Schiaparelli -Prada event, and she liked it but did not elaborate much about the fashions. She did keep complaining how extremely crowded it was, and she had to elbow her way in to get a good close look at things. She felt she did not get to experience it the way she wanted to, or the way it was intended to be experienced. She said they let in too many people at once.

She is more a Prada fan (I am decidedly NOT) and I am a Schiaparelli fanatic, so she could not tell me much other than talk about the Prada stuff.

I am very much hoping to hear from a VFG member about the show.

B

 

I don't know why the Met feels they have to do their big costume shows during the summer when attendance is already high... The last show I saw there was their models as muse exhibition and the experience was actually unpleasant. I would rather skip going to the Met than suffer through that herd of hillbillies looking at the museum through their camera phones. My apologies to hillibillies who don't own phones... but I wasn't under the impression that anyone there was actually enjoying the exhibition - I know I wasn't!

 

The Schaip/Prado show is interesting and worth a visit if you're in NY; I wouldn't recommend a special trip. I came away with a better understanding of Prada. It's still rtw, not couture; but I liked the presentation.

Most of favorite Schaip garments were included and I had examined many in research trips.

I wrote about the YSL for Threads after the deYoung (SF).