Coat
Design House House of Dior French
Designer Yves Saint Laurent French, born Algeria
Not on view
Following his first successful "Trapèze" collection for Dior in 1958, Saint Laurent remained committed to promoting the new shape for garments the following year. The boxy look of this unfitted blue wool coat is a marked departure from the hour-glass silhouettes of Christian Dior's designs from early 1950s. The bracelet-length sleeves, however, keep the coat from overwhelming the wearer, and the unfitted shape heralds the more androgynous look prevalent in the 1960s.
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