YSL: The Assurance of Dreams

The setting: Vogue 1976.  

The Description: "It's a dream," my neighbor said.  She was quite literally right.  Dreams are the language of the subconscious and color belongs to the subconscious of Western culture.  Saint Laurent said it took him only three weeks to design this collection and that, for the first time, he was able to set it all down, at once and definitively, in drawings that had the somnambulistic assurance of dreams. 

by Pierre Schneider

  

The photos: 

 

 Photographs by Duane Michaels

A Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche Russian Collection silk blouse:

 

1970s Russian Collection print silk blouse.  Size 36.

"Astounding color, radiant gold, fabrics like cobwebs veiling rich skin... purple panne velvet, emerald silk faille, patterned lamé .."

 Textured rust colored silk Yves Saint Laurent blouse.  Buttons on the side.  Size 36.

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