The Museum of Lace and Fashion in Calais, France will host an exhibition on the work of French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, produced in collaboration with the Museum Yves Saint Laurent in Paris.
Yves Saint Laurent: Transparencies will be on view at the Museum of Lace and Fashion from June 24th to November 12th, 2023 before moving to the Museum Yves Saint Laurent in Paris in early 2024.
The exhibition will focus on the theme of transparency and will feature more than sixty pieces from the collections of the Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent Foundation and the Museum of Lace and Fashion, showing the fashion designer’s ability to “break the codes of disclosure of the female body”.
Intended to show how Yves Saint Laurent used the effects of transparency of fabrics “to propose a new, powerful and sensual female figure”, the exhibition will feature garments from more than four decades of the fashion designer alongside accessories, drawings, photographs and videos.
Highlights include the designer’s series of short dresses from the summer of 1966, his first see-through blouse worn with the first tuxedo sets consisting of a jacket and Bermuda shorts, and his sheer chiffon “nude dress” worn with decorated with ostrich feathers.
The exhibition was co-curated by the Director of the Yves Saint Laurent Museum Paris, Elsa Janssen, and the Head of the Graphic Collections, Domitille Éblé, as well as Shazia Boucher and Anne-Claire Laronde from the Museums of Calais.
The Yves Saint Laurent: Transparencies exhibition opens on June 24th at the Museum of Lace and Fashion in Calais.
This translated article originally appeared on FashionUnited.uk.