Ensemble

Yves Saint Laurent|Yves Saint Laurent

spring/summer 1970 · a,c) wool, silk, plastic; b) silk, plastic; d) wool · Costume Institute

Nan Kempner told W Magazine, "There is no question that Yves Saint Laurent is my favorite designer. I am tall and on the smaller side, so clothes can overpower me. But Yves understands my kind of body. Actually, he designs for someone who is built like him." Its opulent romanticism, however, recharged the enervated world of haute couture. As was often the case with Saint Laurent, this seminal collection anticipated the historicizing extravagance of the 1980s by almost a decade

Artist

Yves Saint Laurent|Yves Saint Laurent

Date

spring/summer 1970

Medium

a,c) wool, silk, plastic; b) silk, plastic; d) wool

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Thomas L. Kempner, 2006