Divine Fall 1979 Yves Saint Laurent True Haute Couture Blue Silk Harlequin Print Dress w Ruffled Cuffs archive Item# DD4276

Item# DD4276

Presents perfectly well when on or layered under something and since it is Haute Couture I think these are forgivable

Written in between the print are the words "In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora" which is the opening line of Ovid's epic poem

It skims over the bust and is shaped slightly inwards at the waist and then curves back out over the hips

At the back it is set on more of a downward curve to emphasize and add an hourglass feel to your shape

Divine Fall 1979 Yves Saint Laurent True Haute Couture Blue Silk Harlequin Print Dress w Ruffled Cuffs archive Item# DD4276This dress is from the Fall 1979 Haute Couture Yves Saint Laurent collection. It was made under the creative direction Yves Saint Laurent. The 1979 collection was an a homage to Picasso and Diaghilev. Yves had been to an exhibit on Picasso costume and set designs for Diaghilev's ballet Russes. At the time he told French Vogue that he had been on a different path entirely for the collection but then he saw the exhibition and "my collection took on the