The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Discourse
Yves Saint Laurent at the press conference for his first retrospective 25 Years of Design, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1983. © Roxanne Lowit. Photo: Roxanne Lowit

Yves Saint Laurent at the press conference for his first retrospective, “25 Years of Design,” Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1983. © Roxanne Lowit. Photo: Roxanne Lowit

Museum à la mode

A short history of luxury designer retrospectives – of Armani, YSL, Alexander McQueen, et al – and their more experimental counterparts illuminates 20th-century ideas of nation-building and fashion’s many possible futures.