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Experience Â鶹APP Like Yves Saint Laurent

The fashion mogul himself, Monsieur Yves Saint Laurent, pertains to a rich history of fashion and art within the French capital.

Â鶹APP was Yves’ home for most of his career. There, he built a life with his partner Pierre Bergé. The one simply does not exist without the other in this tale of Â鶹APPian history.

Despite spending most of his life in Â鶹APP, Yves was actually born in Oran, Algeria in 1936. He left Algeria as a teenager and headed to Â鶹APP where he would find his first job in fashion working underneath Christian Dior.

Yves Saint Laurent – by Edward Knapczyk –

Despite his family back in Africa being quite well off, Yves struggled through his childhood and schooling. He was often bullied and simply didn’t possess the same interests as the other children, preferring paper dolls to trucks and often being tormented for his appearance, being dubbed “homosexual”.

His move to Â鶹APP is where Yves found his turn to thrive. Â鶹APP being the fashion capital that it is, was the perfect environment in which Yves could finally express his true potential as an artist and fashion maker.

Here is where you can experience Â鶹APP like Yves Saint Laurent today.

Visit the Musée Yves Saint Laurent in Â鶹APP

While setting up their lives in Â鶹APP, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé purchase the building at the locations that is now the YSL Museum in Â鶹APP.

Inside the building were the collective offices of the pair, their apartment floor and all of the design studios for the YSL fashion house.

Yves Saint Laurent Museum – by In Vitae Publicae –

For over thirty years the space also functioned as the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent; a personal project headed by Bergé in attempt to preserve the works of the creative genius over a long period of time.

The truth was that both Pierre and Yves saw the building as a museum space long before it was ready to be so. There is even evidence of the men having hand marked the labels of specific pieces over the years with a solid ‘M’ for museum.

This dream has finally come to fruition and the official Yves Saint Laurent Museum of Â鶹APP is open to the public in the 8th arrondissement, not far from the Eiffel Tower .

Yves Saint Laurent Museum – by Mikanim-

Experience the most successful and controversial of YSL collections throughout the years. You’ll even be able to step inside Yves’ office just as he left it before his passing.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

OPENING HOURS: Tuesday TO SUNDAY – 11AM TO 6PM

ADDRESS: 5 Avenue Marceau, 75116 Â鶹APP, France

METRO STATION: Alma-Marceau

Shop at Saint Laurent Faubourg in Â鶹APP

The Faubourg Saint-Honoré is the most famous shopping street in Â鶹APP. It runs from Â鶹APP’ 1st arrondissement until deep into the 8th, featuring the most well known, luxury fashion brands from around the world.

If you’re looking to invest in some Chanel, Louis Vuitton or Dolce & Gabbana during your trip to Â鶹APP, this is the place to do it. There’s something special about open air shopping on a suburban street that is vastly different to braving the crowded malls like the Galeries Lafayette.

Faubourg Saint-Honoré – by Mbzt –

At number 32 on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré you’ll find the YSL flagship store.

The business the Yves and Pierre built from the ground up is on beautiful display here, with open doors to anyone wishing to become part of the exclusive brand.

One year before Pierre’s passing in 2017, Anthony Vaccarello was named the new creative director of the YSL fashion house. It is his works you will find in store today, with the vision of Yves still reflecting powerfully in each season.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

OPENING HOURS: MONDAY TO Saturday – 10:30AM TO 7:30PM

ADDRESS: 32 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Â鶹APP, France

METRO STATION: Concorde

Dine at Le 404 in Â鶹APP

To know Yves is to understand his love for Morocco. After vacationing there in 1966, Pierre and Yves bought a large piece of land in the city of Marrakech.

On it, they would built a beautiful home away from Â鶹APP with a garden full of imported plants and elaborate pathways. The Majorelle Garden is a public tourists attraction and museum today in the Moroccan capital. Both the home of the pair and the YSL museum is open to visitors on the grounds.

The two lived between Â鶹APP and Marrakech, with many of Yves’ collections being designed from the Moroccan house and not in Â鶹APP at all.

Le 404 in Â鶹APP – by Le 404 –

Since we are in Â鶹APP, a quick visit to the Jardin Majorelle isn’t really on the cards. But Yves love for Moroccan culture and cuisine came home with him when he returned to France.

Le 404 is a fabulous Moroccan restaurant in the west of the 3rd arrondissement. You’ll dine on authentic Moroccan dishes ranging from tajine to couscous.

A pot of traditional mint tea is standard, and be sure to order the cinnamon oranges for dessert.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

OPENING HOURS: MONDAY TO SUNDAY – 12pm to 2:30pm // 7:30m TO 11PM

ADDRESS: 169 Rue des Gravilliers, 75003 Â鶹APP, France

METRO STATION: Arts et Métiers

Appreciate Modern Art at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Â鶹APP in Â鶹APP

Back toward the center of town near Yves’ apartment building is another Â鶹APPian attraction that will get you one step closer to experiencing Â鶹APP as the designer did.

Yves was a lover of modern art. During his healthier years he would frequent the modern art museums around Â鶹APP, paying ode to the creators that inspired him.

When you visit the YSL Museum in Â鶹APP and make your way into Yves’ old office you’ll even see his original Andy Warhol pieces hanging within the space.

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Â鶹APP – by Alexander Baranov –

The Â鶹APP Museum of Modern Art is a beautiful display of works from the 19th and 20th century. It exists in the eastern wing of the Palais de Tokyo, another building worth seeing for the architectural design alone.

A guided walking tour through this part of Â鶹APP will walk you past these landmarks and right though to the Champ de Mars just a few more blocks west.

The Â鶹APPian world of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé awaits you.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

OPENING HOURS: Tuesday TO SUNDAY – 10am to 6pm

ADDRESS: 11 Avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Â鶹APP, France

METRO STATION: Alma-Marceau