Yves Saint Laurents

"Yves Saint Laurents - the Perfection of Style"

Exhibit at the Virginia FIne Arts Museum featuring a large selection (102 altogether) of dresses and garments by Yves Saint Laurents, plus a large assortment of incidental pieces such as jewlery and hats. Includes a wall display showing collection boards of (usually) pencil art of Laurent's designs on grid paper. The exhibit allows you to follow a year by year progression through Yves Saint Laurents' career seeing the evolution and changes in his designs and fashion in general. Exhibit also included a variety of other artifcats, such as small paper outfits designed, colored and cut out by Laurents for the purpose of dressing paper dolls, providing the fascinating look at the development of a child prodigy before becoming a world-famous clothing designer.

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