He is without doubt the greatest couturier of his time, having contributed as much to haute couture as to women’s emancipation by dressing the most famous of them. Yves Saint Laurent is a monument. Sketches and magnificent photos of the couturier will be on show from December 11 to January 22 at Galerie MC2M for our viewing pleasure.
“Du crayon à la couture”, the event exhibition on Yves Saint Laurent in Lyon
With a selection of original drawings by Yves Saint Laurent and a series of exceptional portraits of the couturier, the public will be able to enter a little further into the fascinating world of the great Saint Laurent. Extremely gifted but above all a hard worker, the couturier had a special relationship with the sheet of paper. Drawing, sketch, sketch, sketch, model… in the end, it’s the gesture of the hand that begins it all.
As the keystone between imagination and realization, drawing plays a fundamental role in creation. As with Picasso’s drawings, the finesse of Saint Laurent’s strokes is an art. It may look like a child’s drawing, a simple stroke of the pencil, but the result is simply captivating.
A genius who transcends the boundaries of his art
Yves Saint Laurent’s legacy is enormous and inexhaustible. Museums never cease to pay tribute to him. Yves Saint Laurent is a brand in every sense of the word. Like the Beatles or Picasso, these geniuses will be talked about for a long time to come. We remember the two films made about Yves Saint Laurent, starring Pierre Niney and Gaspard Ulliel: both huge critical successes and nominated for a César for Best Actor in 2014. That’s how popular Yves Saint Laurent is with posterity.
Few people can boast of being able to dress at Saint Laurent, just as few can eat at Bocuse’s gourmet restaurant in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or. But whether it’s Paul Bocuse for gastronomy or Yves Saint Laurent for couture, their names resonate. They are now elevated to the status of icons with a single mission: to continue to make us dream.
Galerie MC2M, 21 rue Auguste Comte, Lyon 2
From December 11 to January 22
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