Divine Fall 1979 Yves Saint Laurent True Haute Couture Blue Silk Harlequin Print Dress w Ruffled Cuffs archive It skims over the bust

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

Length: 53î from shoulder to bottom hem of pant legs

The flowers are highlighted with a bit of a silver gray and a soft blue that is just very pretty

From there the black moss crepe is cut on the bias and flows from just under the bust to the floor in a beautiful sweeping column that widens as it nears the ground

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

Divine Fall 1979 Yves Saint Laurent True Haute Couture Blue Silk Harlequin Print Dress w Ruffled Cuffs archive It skims over the bustThis 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