Knickerbocker Suit
1975-1980 (made)
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Knickerbocker suit and shirt-blouse in lightweight cotton lawn. With multiple prints including floral and Paisley in shades of brown, cream and rust.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Printed cotton lawn |
| Brief description | Woman's knickerbocker suit, 1975-1980, French, Yves St. Laurent, Yves, printed cotton with paisley design |
| Physical description | Knickerbocker suit and shirt-blouse in lightweight cotton lawn. With multiple prints including floral and Paisley in shades of brown, cream and rust. |
| Production type | Ready to wear |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'SAINT LAURENT / rive gauche' |
| Credit line | Given by Mrs Lisa Monnas |
| Object history | This outfit is remarkably similar to the designs of Gina Fratini from the late '60s; also compare to the Bill Gibb dress T.94-1981. From the mid 1960s Yves Saint Laurent gained a certain notoriety amongst British designers such as Ossie Clark for seeming to directly lift their designs and ideas and reproduce them as his own designs. His 'peasant' fashions, in mixed cotton prints such as this, were very similar to Fratini's work of a few years earlier. |
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| Accession number | T.232&A-1985 |
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| Record created | May 7, 2009 |
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