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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, pajama set, printed silk crepe, c. 1970, France, P89.55.4, museum purchase; (right) Halston, pajama set, printed crepe de Chine, c.1976, USA, 91.41.12, gift of Ms. Gayle Osman[/caption]Yves Saint Laurent and Halston were the most famous and influential fashion designers of the 1970s. Drawing inspiration from menswear, foreign cultures, and historical periods, Saint Laurent and Halston crafted a new, chic, and modern way of dressing that became synonymous with the sexy and glamorous lifestyle of the decade. While they and their designs are recognizable to fashion enthusiasts and monographic books and exhibitions on each designer abound, Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashioning the 70s will be the first exhibition to juxtapose and analyze their contributions to fashion at the height of their careers, as well as how they came to exemplify this singular, dynamic era in fashion history. All of the nearly 100 objects on view within the exhibition will be drawn exclusively from the Museum at FIT’s permanent collection. With such narrow parameters—two designers and one museum collection—the exhibition is decidedly not a survey of 1970s fashion, nor is it a retrospective of each designer’s work. Instead, it is a curatorial exploration, a re-evaluation of Saint Laurent and Halston set within the larger cultural landscape of the dreamy, indolent, sexy 1970s.Read more about the exhibition.