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Dress

YVES SAINT LAURENT, Paris (couture house), Yves SAINT LAURENT (designer)
Dress
 1971 {Liberation or Forties collection, spring-summer 1971}

Medium
synthetic fabric, leather, plastic (buttons), metal (fastenings)

Measurements
155.0 cm (centre back) 32.0 cm (waist, flat)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty and the Campbell-Pretty Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2017
© Yves Saint Laurent, Paris

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Paris, France

Inscription
label, left seamline, woven in black cotton on white silk: MADE IN FRANCE / YVES SAINT LAURENT / PARIS 26987

Accession Number
2017.255

Department
International Fashion and Textiles

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest

Physical description
Full-length black dress with plunging V neckline, long sleeves and wide red suede leather band at waist, peaked at top and bottom.

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