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Dress

Yves Saint Laurent for Yves Saint LaurentSpring/Summer 1967

The Kyoto Costume Institute

The Kyoto Costume Institute
Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

This dress, presented as one of the "African Look" collection, fascinated people by bringing the African primitive beauty, formerly discovered by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and Henri Matisse (1869–1954), into the limelight of the fashion.
This dress is elaborately embroidered with 20 types of beads including sea shells, wooden beads, and animal-teeth-shaped beads, which had rarely been used for Haute Couture before, as well as several sorts of colored threads. We can see here the very cream of handworks, from the highly advanced and precise techniques of the embroidery studios. In the 1960s, Haute Couture created innovative designs, while observing its tradition.

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  • Title: Dress
  • Creator: Yves Saint Laurent
  • Fashion House: YVES SAINT LAURENT PARIS
  • Label: YVES SAINT LAURENT PARIS
  • Manufacturer: Yves Saint Laurent
  • Date Created: Spring/Summer 1967
  • Season: Spring / Summer 1967
  • Type: Dress
  • Photographer: ©The Kyoto Costume Institute, photo by Taishi Hirokawa
  • Rights: Collection of The Kyoto Costume Institute
  • Medium: Beige silk organdy base embroidered with metallic threads, beads, wooden beads and rhinestones; mesh-like beading without backing around waist.
The Kyoto Costume Institute

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