Dress

Item

Title
Dress
date created
fall/winter 1965–66
designer
Yves Saint Laurent (French (born Algeria) Oran 1936–2008 Paris)
design house
Yves Saint Laurent (French, founded 1961)
has culture
France
description
Yves Saint Laurent borrowed from the visual grammar of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian to create this color-blocked dress. Each color is an individual piece of jersey sewn together with near-invisible seams, a challenging artistic feat.
subjects/references
Piet Mondrian's art style
collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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accession number
C.I.69.23
Item sets
Objects of Desire

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