At which Paris museum did Yves Saint Laurent present his final runway show in 2002?

Yves Saint Laurent presented his final runway show at Paris’s Centre Pompidou in 2002.

The event took place on January 22, 2002, and marked Saint Laurent’s retirement from haute couture and fashion design. Rather than presenting an ordinary seasonal collection, the show functioned as a highly emotional retrospective. Models wore designs representing different stages of his career, including the tuxedo, safari jacket, Mondrian-inspired dress, and other signatures that had changed modern women’s wardrobes.

The Centre Pompidou, Paris’s landmark modern-art and cultural complex, provided an especially fitting setting for a designer whose work continually connected fashion with painting, theater, and popular culture. The show is sometimes confused with later exhibitions about Saint Laurent, or with final collections presented by successors at the house. The 2002 retirement spectacle itself took place at the Pompidou.