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Dress

1982 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Day dress of wool jersey made as three blocks of colour. With a bright medium-pink upper, black waist and sleeves, and a medium-blue lower skirt, knee length. Silk lining in co-ordinating pink, black and blue. Accompanied with a black suede belt.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Dress
  • Belt
Materials and techniques
Wool jersey lined with silk, and suede
Brief description
Day dress of wool jersey and suede belt, designed by Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 1982
Physical description
Day dress of wool jersey made as three blocks of colour. With a bright medium-pink upper, black waist and sleeves, and a medium-blue lower skirt, knee length. Silk lining in co-ordinating pink, black and blue. Accompanied with a black suede belt.
Production typeHaute couture
Marks and inscriptions
'MADE IN FRANCE [sideways] / YVES SAINT LAURENT / PARIS 56926 [stamped couture number]'
Credit line
Given anonymously
Production
Autumn / Winter 1982
Collection
Accession number
T.311:1, 2-1997

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Record createdMay 7, 2009
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