‘Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style’ Heading to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in May

The second and final U.S. stop for “Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style” will open to the public May 6 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Running through Aug. 27, the multifaceted exhibition spotlights 100 couture and ready-to-wear items from the Paris-based Fondation Pierre Bergé and other private collections. The Richmond run is the only East Coast venue for the exhibition, which has been organized by the Seattle Art Museum in partnership with Fondation Pierre Bergé. Along with vividly colored eveningwear from the designer spanning from the Seventies to 2002, the exhibition will showcase seldom-seen documents from the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house and from the private life of the company’s namesake. There will also be storyboards with various sketches and color swatches for every Saint Laurent couture show from 1962 to 2002. As for the fashion, there will be a mix of ensembles highlighting his early years at the House of Dior, including a short evening dress from his 1958 debut “Trapeze” collection at the age of 21. The exhibition continues with his groundbreaking designs of the Sixties, which revolutionized the fashion industry. During this decade, Saint Laurent liberated modern women from the constraints of strict gender codes by

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