Jeanloup Sieff, Yves Saint Laurent, 1969
The French love Yves Saint Laurent – the man, the legend, the collection, the clothes. Perhaps that’s why the Petit Palais has pulled out all the stops for the first ever major retrospective of his fashion oeuvre. Taking over more than the usual temporary exhibition space, the show includes the [...]
Rirkrit Tiravanija modelling a T-shirt with his own poltical slogan
For his new installation, Asile Flottant, Rirkrit Tiravanija has filled the (not inconsequential) gallery space at Chantal Crousel with a huge wooden boat. The boat is a scaled down model of a Le Courbusier design, which was intended to be a Salvation Army floating refuge for [...]
Reset, a show of young artists curated by Christophe Kihm, aims to begin at the beginning. Instead of bringing together different completed works under one conceptual framework, and potentially limiting the individual expression of each, Reset is more of a starting point from which the art and the artists can interact with the exhibition space.
Bertille [...]
Art Nouveau Revival is an atypical show. It avoids trying to define the nebulous character of the Art Nouveau movement, which was both geographically and conceptually disparate (no manifesto was ever drawn up between the likes of Antoni Gaudi, William Morris, Alfons Mucha, Rennie Mackintosh), and reevaluates reincarnations of the style throughout the 20th century, [...]
Robert Frank, The Americans, first published in Paris by Robert Delpire, 1958
Delpire & Cie is a show dedicated to the career of Robert Delpire. It feels a little disorganised, is due in part to the nature of the exhibition space and in part to the varied nature of Delpire’s career.
Starting out as a publisher he worked [...]
The flagship Galeries Lafayettes store on Boulevard Hausmann is famous for it’s holiday window displays. These twinkly animated scenes are not just there to attract custom but are an entertainment in their own right, with specially constructed platforms for kids to get up close and bask in the reflected warmth of festive consumerism. They are [...]
The dining room of Château Gabriel
Following the incredible exhibition and sale of the contents of Yves Saint Laurent’s Paris apartment back in February, Christie’s is selling another important section of the Yves Saint Laurent - Pierre Bergé collection: the contents of their country pad, Chateau Gabriel. The interiors of this neogothic mansion in Normany were designed by Jacques Grange, [...]
The Bon Marché’s exhibition of Guy Bourdin’s films is a homage to this fashion photography heavyweight. The film clips, documenting fashion shoots and capturing the tactual glamour of models, clothes, shoes and landscapes, show Bourdin’s knack for colour and form. It is almost worth going for the impressive sceneography alone. Mirrored rooms, film clips projected [...]
Richard Bellia’s photos of cult music icons provide a contrast to the classic, quality clothes chez Agnes B. Taken from his book, Un Oeil sur la Musique, Bellia’s black and white photos represent the MTV generation’s most cherished stars: Bowie, Iggy, Cobain and Smith….
Richard Bellia, Richard Smith 1985, courtesy of the artist
Bellia has been documenting [...]
For it’s 10th exhibition, Costumes Populaires Russes, the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent is collaborating with the Russian ethnographic museum in Saint Petersburg. The richly decorated costumes and headdresses, dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries, are representative of traditional dress established during the middle ages. Three examples of Yves Saint [...]