Word: laurents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhibit, which shows off some 112 costumes on three separate floors, is the museum's way of introducing itself. It will be succeeded in the spring by a show of Yves Saint Laurent, then of Christian Dior. There will be space on the fifth floor for permanent exhibition of items from the museum's collection of more than 10,000 costumes, a few of which date back as far as the 16th century. And there will be a boutique to sell reworkings of famous designer accessories, as well as space to restore clothes. In all, the museum will occupy eleven...
...museum's permanent collection. It is also highly symbolic: the windows, worked neatly into the exhibition space by Kahane, overlook a splendid Parisian landscape where fashion still thrives as it does no place else in the world. Just a short distance away are the couture houses of Saint Laurent, Madame Gres, Givenchy and Dior, which began their spring/summer showings even as Mitterrand was presiding over the museum's official opening. In March, the courtyard of the Louvre will be overrun by the world fashion press and buyers assembled to check out over 50 different ready-to-wear shows...
...Vail. Giorgio Armani influenced the way almost every designer thinks by adapting to classic dictates of menswear. In a long career, Cristobal Balenciaga was one of the very few who were always ahead of the game, but probably no one has figured it out as well as Yves Saint Laurent: in his teens he realized that women want both casual simplicity and studied opulence, and he has made millions by obliging them...
...rather arbitrary categories she imposes to organize her designers: artists (Fortuny, Mary McFadden), purists (Chanel, Vionnet), architects (Balenciaga, Charles James), realists (Norman Norell and Miyake, of all people). Also, although it may be patrician not to talk about money, the vast fortunes made by the likes of Saint Laurent and Lauren go unrecorded, making the tone sound occasionally naive...
...page of the French Socialist daily Le Matin last Thursday, while another paper added his familiar ears to its logo for the day. All of France, it seemed, was celebrating what one government official called "the largest investment in recent history in France." The agreement, signed by Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, called for the construction of a $1 billion, 5,000-acre European Disneyland some 20 miles east of downtown Paris. Said Eisner: "Walt Disney would certainly feel at home here, because European literature inspired so many of his fantasies and characters...