Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, in collaboration with the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech and the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, brings to Rome for the first time a selection of drawings and sketches of costumes and décors for the ballet, theater and music hall by Yves Saint Laurent, one of the greatest fashion designers of the 20th century.
The works on display testify to the designer’s deep passion for the world of entertainment, which lasted a lifetime and began already in his youth, after he attended a performance of Molière’s “L’école des femmes” by Louis Jouvet’s theatrical company in 1950 in Oran, his hometown in Algeria. It was the choreographer Roland Petit who discovered his artistic potential and commissioned Yves Saint Laurent’s first costumes―for the ballet “Cyrano de Bergerac” in 1959. Roland Petit remained a key figure in his life and he entrusted the young couturier with the designing of costumes and décors for as many as eight ballets within a few years. Yves Saint Laurent’s friendship with Roland Petit’s wife, the famous ballet dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, resulted in myriad iconic creations, such as the “Mon truc en plumes” costume (1961), which was recently paid homage to by Lady Gaga at the opening of the Paris Olympic Games.
The some sixty drawings on display represent models of sets and costumes dating from 1959, for the ballet Cyrano de Bergerac, to 1978, the year Jean Cocteau’s play “L’Aigle à deux têtes” was presented at the Théâtre de l’Athénée. Music hall is also illustrated by various sketches, including those for “Le spectacle Zizi Jeanmaire”, which premiered at Rome’s Teatro Eliseo in November 1963.
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