Oh, these clothes! And, oh, I feel like I'm in an Ikea!

Yesterday, both Dan and I played golf with Lindsey's mom, Paula, playing at a county golf course in Alameda. A nice little course, and we had a lot of fun. Neither Paula nor I are serious golfers, nor that good, so it was fun. We ate lunch at a wonderful Vietnamese restaurant that is right in town. Alameda is so compact and pretty; Jay and Lindsey can walk up to restaurants, movies, etc. and they love that.

Today, Dan played golf with his new friend, Fred, the couple we went out to dinner with. I went to the DeYoung Museum to see several exhibits, a flower exhibit, called "Blossoms to Art" and an Yves St. Laurent clothing exhibit.

The clothing exhibit was magnificant! I managed to take a few pictures before they told me it wasn't allowed, I honestly didn't know because cameras are allowed in the rest of the museum. So I have to describe some of the others. If you aren't interested in clothing, just skip ahead.

This was a large collection, and I overheard some women saying that YSL helped put it together before he died last year. It's the only U.S. city it will be in. My favorite clothes were ones with color. He was one of the first to pair unlikely colors together, like turquoise and peach. My favorite piece of all, and for those of you who know me, you will say, "Oh, that's so Pat", was an evening ensemble. The jacket was a flowing lime green silk with an irregular hem, the top of the gown was yellow silk that was one shouldered, the bottom of it was a beautiful shade of pink (I thought of you, Melisa) and the sash was a deep pink almost a fuschia. The shoes were lime suede, and peeked out of the dress. It was my favorite.
! The other part I really loved were the clothes he made to honor different artists, like Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian and Braque. But he made clothes based on their paintings. The Van Gogh ones were jackets with the sunflowers embroided into it, with sequins all over,and the other one had iris's on it, in the same vivid colors of the paintings. The Matisse one was a long black skirt with the cut-out pattern we've all seen appliqued on. They were gorgeous!

I think a lot of the clothes were in his collection, but many of them were also made for Lauren Bacall, and my gal, Catherine DeNueve. (Dan teases me about Catherine, as she's my woman crush!) It was very enjoyable, and good to go alone, as Dan would not have liked it. Lindsey would, but she is working a lot, and won't get to it, I fear, as it's closing soon. But she should try.

The other exhibit, the "Blossoms to Art" were flower exhibits that were all over the museum. It was displays of art using flowers. I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as the clothing, and would not have made a point to see it. However, I was certainly in the minority on that one because the rest of the museum was mobbed with women bumping into each other to take pictures of it all. It was mobbed! At one point, I could not move, as I was trying to get out of the museum. I got caught up in the museum, was going from room to room to get out! It was like being in Ikea!

I later did another stairway walk, this one in the Presidio. I used my trusty stairway walk book, but it was a confusing walk, plus, it wasn't very good. I would not rate it very high, it was disappointing.