Project Runway Designers come to Denver Art Museum
Project Runway Designers to Unveil Yves Saint Laurent- Inspired Designs in Fashion Show
Fashion-Focused Programming at Denver Art Museum’s Final Friday Event
Celebrates Opening of Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective
(Denver, Colo.) – January 20, 2012 – To celebrate the opening of the high-fashion exhibition Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will present a fashion show of epic proportions at Untitled #45 (Haute), from 6 to 10 p.m. on March 30. Hosted in partnership with Denver’s Fallene Wells, a former Project Runway contestant and creator of the local fashion production company Forever Darling, the
Untitled event will feature a runway show with Yves Saint Laurent-inspired designs by eight designers from the popular TV show Project Runway, along with other offbeat art activities. Audiences will also have the opportunity to experience the exhibition Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, which opens at the DAM on March 25.
Forever Darling Runway Show Details
The DAM and Fallene Wells of Forever Darling will host the fashion show of the year, featuring eight designers from past Project Runway seasons. Each participating designer will send five Yves Saint Laurent inspired outfits down the runway starting at 7 p.m. Special ticket packages for the fashion show will go on sale January 20 at 9 a.m. Visit www.YSLdenver.com for complete details. Options include the Haute Ticket with a stage-side seat and timed, dated ticket to view Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective for $32 for DAM members or $40 for non-members, or the Ready-to- Wear Ticket that guarantees a standing spot for the fashion show and a timed, dated Yves Saint Laurent ticket for $24 for DAM members or $32 for non-members. Both packages include admission to Untitled. Museum members will also have first access to the seating and standing areas.
Participating designers:
Michael Costello (Season 8, All Stars)
Rafael Cox (Season 9)
Danielle Everine (Season 9)
Mondo Guerra (Season 8, All Stars)
Cecilia Motwani (Season 9)
Becky Ross (Season 9)
Julie Tierney (Season 9)
Fallene Wells (Season 9)
Untitled #45 (Haute) Activities
The final Friday of the month, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) offers a dose of the unexpected with offbeat art encounters, unique detours of the DAM collection, artmaking, local music, cash bar, munchies and more. At each mixed-media Untitled event, the museum explores a specific theme with exhibition related activities and community collaborations.
At Untitled #45 (Haute), visitors can get an avant-garde make over with an art-induced haircut or style provided by the Golden Triangle’s Studio Salon, bring in photos of their interior design dilemmas and get an expert’s take on their space from consultants at NAKA Designs or pick up new skills in a hands-on haute couture workshop. Denver Design Incubator’s designers in residence have created new work inspired by the museum’s collections as part of Untitled’s MakeARTtalk series. This series invites Denver community members to produce a new creative work inspired by the museum collections, exhibitions or the space itself. During each Untitled, the MakeARTtalk participants share their ideas with the audience while discussing their inspiration, process, successes and failures, as well as their final works. Buntport Theater performs their monthly sitcom Joan and Charlie Discuss Tonight’s Theme while a local DJ spins
in the atrium. Untitled is included in general museum admission. A ticket to the runway show is required.
Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective Overview
The entire Untitled #45 (Haute) line up celebrates the fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent and the sweeping retrospective on view at the DAM through July 8, 2012. Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective is a complete overview of the designer’s 40 years of creativity. The DAM is the only U.S. venue for the exhibition. Combining photographs, drawings, films and other multimedia elements with a selection of 200 haute couture outfits, the exhibition creates an immersive environment for visitors to see firsthand the development of Saint Laurent’s style and the historical foundations of his work. Organized thematically, the multifaceted presentation melds design and art to explore the full arc of his career, from his first days at Dior in 1958 through the splendor of his final runway collection in 2002. Curated by Florence Müller and overseen by Pierre Bergé, Yves Saint Laurent premiered in Paris in 2010 at the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, and will be on view in the Anschutz and Martin and McCormick galleries in DAM’s Hamilton Building. Time and dated tickets are available at www.YSLdenver.com. Untitled #45 (Haute) is sponsored by Luna Bar.
Denver Art Museum
The Denver Art Museum is located on 13th Avenue between Broadway and Bannock streets in downtown Denver. Open Tuesday–Thursday and Saturday–Sunday 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.–8p.m. except the final Friday of the month when the museum is open until 10 p.m. Closed Mondays, July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Cultural Complex Garage is open; enter from 12th Avenue between Broadway and Bannock or check the DAM website for up-to-date parking information. For more information, visit www.denverartmuseum.org or call 720-865-5000.
