Paris Museum Stages Showcase Honouring Yohan Serfaty, Founder of Y/Project
Paris's Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the city's museum of decorative arts, is holding a showcase honouring Yohan Serfaty, the late founder of the fashion label Y/Project. The show, titled "Hommage to Yohan Serfaty", runs until March 21. Serfaty died in 2013.
The display places his work in conversation with medieval art. It fills three rooms devoted to the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, the period that followed. The showcase also brings in talent recognised by the ANDAM Awards, a French prize for emerging fashion designers, as WWD reported.
In the Raoul Duseigneur room, a slim-cut crocodile coat by Serfaty sits alongside silhouettes by EgonLab and Marine Serre. Visitors also see a hat by Ruslan Baginskiy, a bag by Maeden and footwear by Vicente Rey. These pieces come through the partnership with the ANDAM Awards.
The Serfaty family has given to two of Paris's fashion collections. Nathalie Serfaty donated a dozen Yohan Serfaty pieces to the museum, which amount to four silhouettes. She gave a similar number to the Palais Galliera, the city's fashion museum.
The showcase also has a financial base. Proceeds from a 2025 sale of around 300 Yohan Serfaty archive pieces became the basis of the Yohan Serfaty endowment fund. An endowment is money invested so that its income can support a cause over the long term.
Sophie Lemahieu is the museum's curator in charge of post-1947 fashion and textiles collections. The museum's website lists other shows running alongside this one. "Look ! 40 ans de mode au musée", which marks forty years of fashion at the museum, runs from 30 September 2026 to 4 April 2027. A photography exhibition, "Rafael Pavarotti, photographe", runs from 2 October 2026 to 2 May 2027, and a third, "Paris > Kyoto > Paris. Quatre designers de retour du Japon", is also listed as current.
For visitors, the pairing is simple to follow. An old-master style of cutting and craft sits next to newer clothes, all within the same few rooms. The Serfaty name anchors the display, and the rest of the rooms show who has come after him.
