A STRAPLESS, CHINÉ SILK GOWN
Lot 90

A STRAPLESS, CHINÉ SILK GOWN

YVES SAINT LAURENT FOR CHRISTIAN DIOR, PRINTEMPS-ÉTÉ 1960, CATWALK MODEL

Closed1 December 2011

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GBP 3,000

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A STRAPLESS, CHINÉ SILK GOWN
YVES SAINT LAURENT FOR CHRISTIAN DIOR, PRINTEMPS-ÉTÉ 1960, CATWALK MODEL
woven with sugar pink flowers on a white ground, with puff ball skirts, gathered into soft swags and trimmed with bows
unlabelled

Specialist note

Compare Dior, Francois Giroud, Sacha van Dorssen, Éditions du Regard, 1987, page 274.
Compare the bouffant skirt shape and chiné silk of this example with Catalogue Number 33, Histoires de la Mode d'Hier et d'Aujourd'hui, Donations, Acquisitions Recentes, Musée des Arts de la Mode, Paris, 15 November 1988- 19 February 1989, page 56, CD Number 80, Don de Mme Fina Gomez, Collection de l'UAD, Inventory Number 988 458 AB;