Yves Saint Laurent Is Coming To Britain To Hold A Retrospective Exhibition.

According to reports, from July 11th to October 25th this year, Yves Saint Laurent will hold a retrospective exhibition entitled "Yves Saint Laurent style" in the Bowes Museum (Bowes Museum) of Durham County, UK.

"Fashionable and perpetually styled" is the classic motto of Yves Saint Laurent designer. The theme of the retrospective is to quote the famous designer's motto. This exhibition He will review the life of this great designer, highlighting his understanding and transformation of women's clothing.

The exhibition will display about 50 costumes, including the 1965 Mondrian Dress, the 1967 Pantsuit, and 80s's "Van Gogh" tribute. Many of the exhibits have never been exhibited outside Paris.

Good at Women's wear Join in Men's wear The Yves Saint Laurent of the element can be said to be the originator of "neutral wind" clothing. He used the avant-garde design of Tuxedo suits and hunting coats and trousers to liberate women from tedious costumes. Just like her partner, Pierre Berg, commented, "if Chanel gives women freedom, Yves Saint Laurent gives women power."

Yves Saint Laurent will always dress up all women as their career pursuit. In 1966, he founded the clothing brand Saint Laurent, and has been used so far.

The Bowes Museum, which hosts the exhibition, is the legacy of the Bowes couple. Bowes first wanted to bring more authentic foreign products to Durham County, so that the local residents could appreciate foreign art, but the museum was built after Mr. John Bowes died. At the beginning of the museum, there were 15 thousand collections, including the works of El Greco, Canaletto, Goya and other painters.

Joanna Hashagen, the curator of the Bowes Museum, also said that the exhibition will be a dialogue between the designer's work and the collection of the Bowes Museum.

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When he was eighteen years old, St. Laurent graduated from high school, Vogue editor in chief remembers young people who could design asymmetrical black cocktail clothes. So he asked him to do the art design of magazines and sent him to clothing school to learn (Paris clothing trade union school, Ecole de La chambre syndicale de la Couture parisienne). At the age of nineteen, St. Laurent entered Kristen Kristen's company to design Dior Dior. As the young Saint Laurent can reach the standard of Dior, at the age of 20, the fashion of Dior three branch came from Saint Laurent. In October 24th of 1957, with the death of Mr. Dior, the 21 year old Santa Lo Lang was in danger. He received the upcoming publication. St. Laurent used black silk to design a knee curd with a bow tie. So it was called Kristen (Kristen Dior) II and became the chief designer of Kristen Dior. At that time, he was only 21 years old.

In 1960, with the outbreak of the Algeria war, St. Laurent, who had already had a certain position in the fashion industry, was forced to join the army. Not only did Dior lose its job, but he was not very good at group life and introverted. So he claimed that he was in a state of mental collapse, and then he was sent to Val-de-Grace.

Hospital treatment, in 2.5 of the treatment time, the hospital used a lot of tranquilizer to prevent the departure of St. Laurent, the final Saint Laurent changed weight loss (80 pounds) and mental confusion, but later he was allowed to leave the hospital, but this life can not be separated from anesthetics, and because of drug addiction, Saint Laurent has experienced alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide.