From The Factory of the ‘60s to 213 rue Saint-Honoré today, Andy Warhol’s staying power in our culture has held stronger than most others across time. But while it’s his silkscreen prints and paintings that stick out in most of our minds, Anthony Vaccarello, creative director of Saint Laurent, is spotlighting the pop artist’s photography work in a new exhibition, Banal Objects.

Presented itinerantly across Saint Laurent Rive Droite locations, Banal Objects is a series created by Warhol in the late ‘70s that transformed the items we come across in everyday life into works of art in their own right. Through the unpolished immediacy of the Polaroid camera, Warhol deconstructed hierarchical notions of aesthetic and cultural value, prompting the viewer to consider what can really be classified as “art” and continuing Vaccarello’s mission to expand the YSL universe steeped in democracy. Now on view at Saint Laurent Rive Droite Paris, the exhibited works will be available for purchase before moving to the brand’s Los Angeles, New York and Beijing locations.

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