Les Fleurs d'Yves Saint Laurent, Musee YSL

 

Yesterday I went to the 

New YSL Flower 🌺 focused exhibit, 

Les Fleurs d'Yves Saint Laurent.

Lush and lovely, 

On till 4 May, 2025

If you’re coming in early Spring.

They mentioned the influence of 

Bonnard flower 🌸 paintings

Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Berge were always surrounded by flowers and gardens, in their apartment, fashion house and country homes.

To mark the opening on Friday of the exhibit the entrance was decorated with bowers of sunflowers & chrysanthemums 

By florist Baptiste Pitou, who was in charge of the backdrops for Saint Laurent’s runway shows.

An exquisite organza blouse from the 2002 collection, covered in embroidered lily of the valley was an homage to Christian Dior (his lucky flower), Saint Laurent’s mentor and first employer in Paris before he opened his own maison..

Yves didn’t believe flowers 🌺 were just for Spring collections,

but for year-round 🌺 

Though he did create a flower 🌸 bikini of sorts…

Part of the exhibit is a 10-minute video of Saint-Laurent’s design  evolution.

Throughout the exhibit 

Quotes from Proust’s Swan in Love set a background for the dresses.

I don’t know why they left out this fabulous flower 🌺 shoe from YSL’s 1971 collection?

I spotted the same girl from the top of the steps, sitting wistfully by the window…perhaps dreaming of owning a Yves Saint-Laurent.

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The perfect end to a beautiful exhibit - Saffron-Ginger ice cream cone 🍦 from Christian Constant Chocolaterie.