After gossip spread through the art and fashion scenes in the early ’70s that Andy Warhol’s portraits of him, the iconic designer sent Warhol a letter to reassure him otherwise.
Knowing the chatter was upsetting Warhol, Saint Laurent wrote in the message — which was mailed from Paris on July 31, 1974, and will be displayed in an exhibition called “Letters to Andy Warhol” — that he had heard the “stupid rumors” about the set of four multicolored silkscreens, and wrote a short list.
It read, “I love them; I admire you; I am your friend.”
The exhibition, which includes a letter from Mick Jagger, will run at Cadillac House from Tuesday through Dec. 26.