Evening coat

Design House Yves Saint Laurent French
 Designer Yves Saint Laurent French, born Algeria

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Saint Laurent's pink silk faille trench coat is a more contemporary a take on the evening wrap. The designer gave it to Mrs. Kempner on her fiftieth wedding anniversary. The coat's transposition from menswear and functional outerwear to formal womenswear is a strategy Saint Laurent employed from the beginning of his career with his own house and is consistent with the thinking that created "Le Smoking."

Evening coat, Yves Saint Laurent (French, founded 1961), a) silk, abalone; b) silk, French

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Evening coat, Yves Saint Laurent (French, founded 1961), a) silk, abalone; b) silk, French
Evening coat, Yves Saint Laurent (French, founded 1961), a) silk, abalone; b) silk, French
Evening coat, Yves Saint Laurent (French, founded 1961), a) silk, abalone; b) silk, French

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