Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Cocktail Dress – Homage To Mondrian – Ah 1965-1966

Fall Winter 1965-1966 Paris Iconic Mondrian dress by Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture (attributed to) dating from the period 1965-1966. Cocktail dress with a bag cut, crew neck and sleeveless in ecru wool jersey worked with black jersey inlays, leaving no seams visible. Zipper in the back concealed by a black jersey tab, invented by Azzedine Alaïa in the prototype he made in 1965 for the Maison Yves Saint Laurent. Model n°102 from the haute couture fashion show program at 30 bis Rue Spontini in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Lining in champagne Duchesse satin, with unstitched claw mark of the size of the famous Couture claws of the master. No defects to report. Very good condition in terms of color and conservation. Dimensions: Equivalent to size 36 France. Shoulders 36 cm, chest 93 cm, waist 94 cm, hips 96 cm, height 97 cm. Similar models: Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York (CI68.60.1) - Fondation Azzedine Alaïa, Paris - Museum of Bath, model that belonged to the dancer Margot Fonteyn. The autumn-winter 1965 haute couture collection was presented on August 6. Among the one hundred and six models that made it up, a large part respected the classical tradition of haute couture. However, the Mondrian dresses would definitively change the links between fashion and art, by transforming a painting into an animated work in a sort of "manifesto". Yves Saint Laurent appropriated the work of this painter by transforming a two-dimensional painting into a three-dimensional garment with the strength and power of the work. The photos of dress 102 immortalize the model Paule de Mérindol in 1965 (photos by Georges Saad), who wears buckled shoes by Roger Vivier and a helmet in the style of André Courrèges. This black and white two-tone design, with a perfectly centered cross, will be used by the couturier in the ballet Notre-Dame de Paris that he will create alongside Roland Petit on December 11, 1965 (costume of Phoebus and the soldiers). Serge Liagre