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Dress Front of dress

Yves Saint Laurent for Yves Saint Laurent

The Museum at FIT

The Museum at FIT
New York City, United States

Fashion and art interact in this dress by Yves Saint Laurent, which was inspired by artist Piet Mondrian's color block paintings. Saint Laurent used the flatness of the sheath silhouette to suggest the two-dimensionality of a painted canvas. He designed several versions of this dress, each one unique in its color block design. Unlike the paintings, however, where the design is a surface application, the color blocking is integral to the construction of the dress, requiring the precision of couture pattern making and sewing. The dress was widely copied and both the original and a copy were featured in the 2015 Museum at FIT exhibition Faking It.

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  • Title: Dress Front of dress
  • Creator: Yves Saint Laurent
  • Creator Birth Date: 1936
  • Creator Death Date: 2008
  • Fashion House: Yves Saint Laurent
  • Date Created: Fall 1965
  • Location Created: France
  • Season: Fall 1965
  • Type: Dress
  • Rights: Copyright The Museum at FIT
  • Medium: Multicolor wool jersey
  • Credit: Gift of Igor Kamlukin from the Estate of Valentina Schlee
The Museum at FIT

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