YVES SAINT LAURENT, 1968

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A SMOKING SUIT
YVES SAINT LAURENT, 1968
composed of velvet tail coat and trousers, known as queue de pie (magpie's tail) with a black tulle transparent sequinned and embroidered high-necked blouse with a satin bow
the jacket and blouse labelled Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, Made in France, the jacket label numbered 44743, the trousers unlabelled (3)

Provenance

Bettina Graziani. This was a cat-walk model.

Exhibited

Yves Saint Laurent Retrospective, Moscow, 1986

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Lot Essay

The formal, buttoned-down nature of the velvet dinner suit contrasts playfully with the transparent and overtly feminine nature of the blouse. This kind of clash of sensibilities was one that YSL came back to many times.

Compare Élégance et Création, 1945-75, Musée de la Mode et du Costume, May-August 1977, Palais Galliera, page 109, sketched with knickerbockers. Reproduced here by kind permission of the Pierre Bergé Foundation.

Compare also Yves Saint Laurent Retrospective, Moscow, 1986, page 142.

Compare also Yves Saint Laurent Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1987, page 80, dated Spring-Summer 1968.

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