From Paper Dolls to the Runway: Yves St. Laurent

That YSL is literally branded into our collective logo lexicon is no accident. The two-dimensional mix of serif, san serif, italic and Roman fonts was designed by Adolphe Cassandre to express ambiguity and surrealism. For four decades, the monogram has made an imprint. In partnership with the Seattle Art Museum, Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style, arrives at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for a Moulin Rouge of fashion, film, photography and flourish.