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Yves Saint Laurent<br />
in Calais…<br />
“Fashions fade,<br />
style is eternal”<br />
Yves Saint Laurent<br />
Dress worn by Karen Mulder.<br />
1996 Spring-Summer haute<br />
couture collection. Photograph<br />
by Claus Ohm © Yves Saint<br />
Laurent © Claus Ohm – DR<br />
Evening gown worn<br />
by Gurmitt Kaur<br />
Campbell. 1990<br />
<strong>Autumn</strong>-Winter<br />
haute couture<br />
collection. © Yves<br />
Saint Laurent ©<br />
Rights reserved<br />
At the internationally renowned Museum<br />
of Lace and Fashion in Calais, northern<br />
France, a major exhibition dedicated<br />
to the late great French couturier Yves<br />
Saint Laurent is eye-poppingly fabulous<br />
says Janine Marsh.<br />
The French have been famous for dressing<br />
well for centuries. As long ago as the 17th<br />
century – not long after the Mayflower carried<br />
pilgrims to North America and Isaac Newton<br />
published one of his most important scientific<br />
works Philosophiae Naturalis Principia<br />
Mathematica (1687) – the French were turning<br />
fashion into an industry.<br />
The modern fashion show dates to the Paris<br />
in the 1860s, though it was a pioneering<br />
Englishman, fashion designer Charles Frederick<br />
Worth, who kicked it things off by using live<br />
models instead of mannequins to present his<br />
creations. 130 years later, on July 12, 1998,<br />
the great French designer Yves Saint Laurent<br />
created a monumental runway show at the<br />
Stade de France ahead of the Football World<br />
Cup final between France and Brazil. Lasting 15<br />
Workshop specification sheet<br />
referred to as a “Bible page”<br />
of a short evening dress. 1966<br />
<strong>Autumn</strong>-Winter haute couture<br />
collection. © Yves Saint Laurent<br />
minutes, the event involved 300 models, 900<br />
backstage hands and 4,000 stadium staff. It<br />
was televised live to about 1.7 billion people.<br />
Yves Saint-Laurent was a showman and fashion<br />
visionary whose legacy lives on.<br />
The exhibition<br />
The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris has<br />
teamed up with the Museum of Lace and<br />
Fashion in Calais for an exhibition that focuses<br />
on transparency - the way Yves Saint Laurent<br />
used nude effects in his designs. It will run<br />
until 12 November <strong>2023</strong>. A second exhibition<br />
(which will not be the same as this one), will<br />
open in Paris in February 2024.<br />
Seductive, sensuous, and<br />
shocking<br />
Born in Algeria in 1936, Yves Henry Donat<br />
Mathieu-Saint-Laurent was destined for<br />
fashion. Whilst still at school he won a<br />
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