YVES SAINT LAURENT’S COMIC STRIP: NAUGHTY LULU [LA VILAINE LULU]
STARTING FROM JULY 11, 2024
The Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech (mYSLm) is delighted to announce a new collaborative project between the mYSLm and the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris: the upcoming exhibition Yves Saint Laurent’s comic strip: Naughty Lulu [La Vilaine Lulu]. Co-curated by Serena Bucalo-Mussely and Domitille Eblé, head of collections and manager of the graphic art collections, respectively, at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, the exhibition will be on view at the mYSLm’s photography gallery beginning July 11, 2024.
In 1956, the twenty-year-old Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent was already working as an assistant to Christian Dior, sketching ideas for upcoming collections. In the evenings, one of the couture house’s employees, Jean-Pierre Frère, would have fun cross-dressing: “Often, after six o’clock, a Christian Dior employee would ‘dress up.’ One evening he pulled his pants up to his knees. I remember he wore long black socks. In the booth used by the fashion models, he found a red tulle petticoat and a [Venetian] gondolier’s hat. I was impressed by the stubbornly sly appearance of this very short man and said to him, “You are naughty Lulu [Tu es la vilaine Lulu]”.*
This anecdote gave birth to the character of Naughty Lulu [La Vilaine Lulu], who would inspire Yves Saint Laurent to create his mischievous comic strip.
The comic strip’s readers follow the adventures of a little girl, Naughty Lulu, over the course of twenty-four stories, such as “Lulu at school” or “The Lulu year.” Always dressed in the same way, she is accompanied by her pet, a white rat. The dialogues are filled with her favorite expressions and repurposed words dear to her, such as “Pluck” and “Schmuck.”
The album La Vilaine Lulu is on sale at the bookshop of the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech at the price of 320 dhs.
A limited, luxury edition of La Vilaine Lulu―ten copies presented in a large, elegant slipcase―are also on sale at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech bookshop; price on request.
Exhibition curators: Serena Bucalo-Mussely, Domitille Eblé
Exhibition design: Jasmin Oezcebi
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LES FLEURS D’YVES SAINT LAURENT
FROM 2 MARCH 2024 TO 5 JANUARY 2025
The Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech (mYSLm) is delighted to announce the opening, on March 2, 2024, of the exhibition Les Fleurs d’Yves Saint Laurent, which will coincide with the seventh anniversary―in October 2024―of the founding of the Yves Saint Laurent museums in Marrakech and Paris. For the first time, the two museums will prepare and mount a joint exhibition and catalogue project under the curatorship of Gaël Mamine and Olivier Saillard.
Olivier Saillard curated the exhibition Yves Saint Laurent: The Scandal Collection, 1971, seen at the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, Paris in 2015. At the time, Gaël Mamine was head of collections at the Foundation. Together, they mounted their first joint exhibition,Yves Saint Laurent: Line and Expression, which was seen alongside the exhibition Cy Twombly: Morocco, 1952/1953. These two exhibitions, which were seen at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech in 2023, placed drawing at the heart of the work of the French couturier and American artist.
Together, Olivier Saillard and Gaël Mamine are preparing a second exhibition, Les Fleurs d’Yves Saint Laurent, to be mounted simultaneously at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech and the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris. The exhibition will focus on the passion that Yves Saint Laurent, as well as Pierre Bergé, had for nature. Saillard and Mamine will place lilies of the valley, bougainvilleas, roses, wheat, poppies and lilies on herbarium boards that could have been imagined by the couturier.
Exhibition curators: Olivier Saillard, Gaël Mamine
Exhibition design: Claudia Huidobro
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