The set for this show offers a cinematic setting for the presentation of Antony Vacarello’s collection for Saint Laurent: two circular rooms touching and melting into one other, two rotundas forming a unified space. By pulling apart the show space like this, intimate proximities are created within each room and between the collection and the audience. Their intersecting threshold becomes a moment of framing, offering long oblique views from room to room and model to model, a laying of events. The luminous ceilings retrace the individual spaces with a circle of light whilst the dark reflective, almost liquid floor joins them together again. Walls are hung with green damask in reference to Yves Saint Laurent own apartment in Paris.
The set for this show offers a cinematic setting for the presentation of Antony Vacarello’s collection for Saint Laurent: two circular rooms touching and melting into one other, two rotundas forming a unified space. By pulling apart the show space like this, intimate proximities are created within each room and between the collection and the audience. Their intersecting threshold becomes a moment of framing, offering long oblique views from room to room and model to model, a laying of events. The luminous ceilings retrace the individual spaces with a circle of light whilst the dark reflective, almost liquid floor joins them together again. Walls are hung with green damask in reference to Yves Saint Laurent own apartment in Paris.
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Paul Riddle, Saint Laurent
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