Yves Saint Laurent Comes to Denver

One of Many YSL Creations to be Shown in Denver

So long cow town, hello haute couture. Maybe I was a bit ahead of my time moving to Telluride, Colorado from Paris, France. Well, there’s nothing like the combination of natural beauty and sophistication and clearly that dynamic duo is increasingly on the rise here in our magnificent Rocky Mountain state.

Mention of an Yves Saint Laurent exhibit in Denver popped out at me yesterday in a piece in the New York Times about Pierre Bergé. (Read Saint Laurent’s Other Half.) My excitement quickened as I discovered that Denver was selected as the only U.S. city to present the major Yves Saint Laurent Retrospective featuring forty years of this world-renowned designer’s creativity, organized by Monsieur Bergé. It came as no surprise that the show will be hosted by the Denver Art Museum (DAM), one of the most stunning showcases of art and history in our country. The show opens March 25, 2012 and will run through July 7, 2012.

After contacting the museum, I learned that tickets won’t go on sale until 2012 and it’s not known yet whether they’ll be available a couple of weeks or months before the opening. So I suggest you begin checking the DAM website toward the beginning of next year. I’ve delighted in experiencing minimal crowds at past temporary exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum, but it’s hard to imagine that this show won’t achieve blockbuster status. Who knows though? Maybe we won’t have to deal with the typical museum crowds of other major metropolitan centers. We are just a bunch of mountain folk after all, n’est-ce pas?

Thank you to the Denver Art Museum and Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, Paris/Photo a. Guirkinger for the use of the above image. This short evening ensemble, from haute couture collection Spring-Summer 1988, pays tribute to Vincent Van Gogh. The jacket, embroidered with sequins and pearls, is shown over a green crepe blouse and paired with a purple crepe skirt. I had the pleasure of attending a couple of YSL haute couture shows during the eleven years I lived in Paris, but am not sure whether I saw this beauty on the runway!