Coat

House of Dior|Yves Saint Laurent

fall/winter 1959 · wool · Costume Institute

Following his first successful "Trapèze" collection for Dior in 1958, Saint Laurent remained committed to promoting the new shape for garments the following year. The boxy look of this unfitted blue wool coat is a marked departure from the hour-glass silhouettes of Christian Dior's designs from early 1950s. The bracelet-length sleeves, however, keep the coat from overwhelming the wearer, and the unfitted shape heralds the more androgynous look prevalent in the 1960s.

Artist

House of Dior|Yves Saint Laurent

Date

fall/winter 1959

Medium

wool

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Henry Rogers Benjamin, 1965