Yves Saint Laurent Exhibit Opens at ICP

The ICP on Ludlow Street in Manhattan has opened a present on the revered dressmaker Yves Saint Laurent’s particular relationship with images as an artwork kind. Titled “Yves Saint Laurent and Photography,” it examines Saint Laurent’s use of images in his work over the many years. The exhibition brings collectively stellar work by artists together with Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, David Seidner, and Andy Warhol.

Produced in cooperation with the Musée Saint Laurent in Paris and the Fondation Pierre Bergé–Yves Saint Laurent, “Yves Saint Laurent and Photography” additionally brings collectively over 200 museum archive loans, together with private images, magazines, press clippings, contact sheets, marketing campaign catalogues, and notes for Saint Laurent’s quite a few iconic advertisements.

Saint Laurent’s fixed elevation of vogue to an artwork kind has been well-documented. In 1983, he turned the primary dwelling designer to have a Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute solo retrospective, an honor that to date has been duplicated solely by Rei Kawakubo in 2017. He drew on cultural and creative influences as numerous as Piet Mondrian, the Ballets Russes, and Henri Matisse. He often made himself into the provocative murals, as when he posed nude for photographer Jeanloup Sieff in an commercial for Yves Saint Laurent Pour Homme. That photograph is one in every of many well-known pictures within the exhibit.

“Yves Saint Laurent and Photography” is on view on the International Center of Photography in New York by September 28, 2026.