Saint Laurent has leased the constructing at 30 bis Rue Spontini in Paris that housed the legendary designer’s unique couture home, sources advised WWD.
It was not instantly clear what precisely the Kering-owned vogue home plans to do with the historic website.
Saint Laurent officers couldn’t be reached for remark.
Yves Saint Laurent’s transfer to Rue Spontini made front-page information on WWD on November 22, 1961, with the article recounting that the “home used to belong to the well-known French cartoonist Jean-Louis Forain, who died in 1931.”
He additionally famous that the ability was in want of refurbishment earlier than the couturier’s debut presentation on January 29, 1962.
Princess Anne, Baroness de Rothschild, Roland Petit, Zizi Jeanmaire, Geneviève Fath and Françoise Sagan had been amongst those that witnessed Saint Laurent’s first high fashion assortment, following an acclaimed stint as Christian Dior’s successor on the Home of Dior.
For greater than a decade, Rue Spontini grew to become synonymous with Yves Saint Laurent’s high fashion enterprise, whilst he ventured additional into ready-to-wear by opening boutiques on the Rive Gauche.
There he met the French actress Catherine Deneuve. “I confirmed up on Rue Spontini with a photograph of the Russian assortment from the earlier 12 months, which he agreed to take for me”, Deneuve would later recall, that outfit sparked “an extended skilled collaboration and friendship”.
In 1974, Saint Laurent and his associate Pierre Bergé moved the couture home from Rue Spontini to a hôtel particulier at 5 Avenue Marceau courting from the Second Empire.
Saint Laurent would retire in 2002 and shut the couture home, at which level the Avenue Marceau constructing was reconfigured into the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent. Since 2017, it has been the positioning of the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris.
Eagle-eyed observers might have seen that Saint Laurent captured a couple of appears from its fall-winter 2023 menswear assortment on Rue Spontini, the road signal barely blurred within the background as a mannequin in an extended black trench coat strides by.
Artistic director Anthony Vaccarello returned to the Paris runway for Saint Laurent menswear earlier this month, displaying a closely soigné, largely black assortment impressed partly by the late legendary designer’s private type.
In response to official paperwork on the constructing obtained by WWD, the property has handed by a number of members of the identical household over time. It has a footprint of roughly 2,400 sq. ft, spans 4 tales, and options tall, broad home windows on the second and prime flooring.
- With contributions from Lily Templeton