Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Its a classic from Yves Saint Laurent




"Mondrian" day dress, autumn 1965.
Yves Saint Laurent made the classic 60's dress to an work of art. I cant but help thinking there must have been some Bauhaus inspiration when using the coloured blocks. It looks simple but it is not easy to make this pattern work in a dress. YSL made it work, I also think that Chloé with a similar dress made a classic. I had this dress on the other day in London and I was stopped twice being asked who the dress was by…