Best Western Hotel Montcalm :

The first large retrospective exhibition dedicated to Yves Saint-Laurent the fashion designer is set to take place from 11 March to 29 August, not far from the Best Western Hotel Montcalm, at the Petit Palais.

“I’ve always had the highest of respect for this profession, which isn’t an art form per se, but which needs an artist in order for it to exist” - Yves Saint-Laurent.

The Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation and the Petit Palais (City of Paris, Museum of Fine Arts) are showcasing the first Yves Saint-Laurent retrospective exhibition since the fashion designer passed away.

A total of 307 haute couture and prêt-à-porter models are on show, ranging from the designer’s beginnings at Dior in 1958, with the famous “Trapèze” collection, to the splendour of the evening dresses from 2002.

^{The museum is opened from Tuesday to Sunday: 10am to 6pm}

^{Late-night opening: Thursday until 8pm.}

^{Closed on Mondays and public holidays}

^{For further information, please click HERE.}

For thirty years, the Paris Book Fair has been carrying the quality and standard of French publishing to the very summit.

Alternately revered, shunned and criticized, it is nevertheless Europe’s leading cultural consumer exhibition.

The property of publishers and their associative body, the Syndicat National de l'Edition, the fair has always asserted its status as a reflection of the market, revealing talent and spotlighting ALL the authors and EVERY category of book.

For smaller publishing houses, the Paris Book Fair is also a guarantee of exposure, while at the same time furthering cultural diversity.

But the fair has to evolve as well, by being as near as it can to developments in forms of reading, and promoting the expressions of those changes in its special event areas.

The Best Western Hotel Montcalm is just a few minutes from Paris' most famous department stores: Galeries Lafayette & Printemps!

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