Sketching is now an integral part of the creative process for many fashion designers, but that wasn’t always the case. It was once seen as a medium best suited to illustrating finished designs in the press and executed by a class of professional fashion illustrators.
In the early 20th century, couturiers from Madeleine Vionnet to Cristóbal Balenciaga and Madame Grès approached their craft through fabric, draping directly on mannequins. Building on the work of his mentor, Christian Dior—who famously drew the New Look collection in graphic lines—Saint Laurent made illustration core to the fashion house he established in 1962.
“Yves Saint Laurent was really into the process of creating something new through drawing,” says Mamine. “Through just three or four lines, you feel something really strong and pure.” Framed in blonde wood and hung at a single height across four galleries, the drawings play off of a selection of haute couture and ready-to-wear clothing and jewelry pieces. Taken together, they highlight Saint Laurent’s enduring interest in several key themes throughout his four decade career: menswear tailoring, the juxtaposition of black and blue in a single look, and brilliant swaths of color on clean-lined silhouettes.
Once Zuckerman got home, she placed a cold call to Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech to convince the museum to lettravel. There was another reason she knew it would be a good fit: OCMA is just across the street from the Southern California shopping mecca South Coast Plaza. “There’s a sexiness paired with an elegance to Yves Saint Laurent’s work that I thought would just be a really great fit for our community,” she says.
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