New Exhibition Spotlights Yves Saint Laurent’s 1971 Collection

PARIS — A new exhibition at the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent shines the spotlight on the late couturier’s infamous 1971 collection, which was inspired by the Forties. Curated by Olivier Saillard, director of the fashion museum at Palais Galliera, the show features 40 outfits from Saint Laurent’s spring couture line, which caused a scandal because of its perceived vulgarity and its references to a dark chapter of history, the Nazi Occupation of Paris during World War II. “Yves Saint Laurent 1971, La collection du scandale,” which opens Thursday and runs through July 19, also features accessories, sketches, film footage of the show and magazine spreads by the likes of Helmut Newton. “We conducted a forensic inquiry into this show and we are displaying everything we found,” Saillard told WWD. “I don’t think there has ever been an exhibition before that was entirely devoted to a single collection.” Known as “The Forties” or the “Liberation” collection, it featured 80 styles in total, which were shown to clients and editors at Saint Laurent’s former headquarters on rue Spontini in Paris. With little in the way of production — six models and no soundtrack — the focus was squarely on the clothes, and editors were outraged. “Saint-Laurent:

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