When Yves Saint Laurent said: « I am the last grand couturier », was he, in his own way, predicting the death of haute couture, and was it arrogance or a simple lack of false humility?
Laurent Cotta will examine Yves Saint Laurent's place in the history of fashion, the real reasons for holding a retrospective in the musée des Beaux-arts and not in a fashion museum, while emphasising the constitution of his own identity, notably using the heritage of Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, perhaps as a synthesis of fashion and style.
Laurent Cotta is in charge of contemporary design at the musée Galliera and teaches at the Ecole du Louvre.
In tandem with the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent
Entry fee: 5 Euros. Registration: confifm@ifm-paris.com
The Public Lecture page on the IFM website:
http://www.ifm-paris.com/asp/fr2/conf_publ_0.asp
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