2005.90.6

Images (4)

Tailor_17 Left to right 2003.109.1 (suit), 2006.7.4 (tan pantsuit), 95.83.1 (hat case), 98.119.1 and 99.3.1 (shoes case), 2006.11.4 and 2006.11.3 (textiles wall), 2005.90.9 (tuxedo), 2005.90.6 (red suit), 97.71.1 (ensemble), 2005.90.5 (taupe suit), 2003.60.2 (skirt ensemble), 2005.25.1 (textile wall), 2006.16.1 (grey suit), 2006.18.1 (dark grey suit)

Tailor_14 Left to right 98.20.11 (blue suit), 95.77.2 (grey shorts suit), 2003.109.1 (dark blue suit hidden), 2006.7.4 (tan pantsuit), 98.119.1 and 99.3.1 (shoes case), 95.83.1 (hat case), 2005.90.9 (black tuxedo), 2005.90.6 (red suit), 97.71.1 (ensemble), 2006.11.4 and 2006.11.3 (textiles wall)

Tailor_12 Left to right 98.20.11 (blue suit), 95.77.2 (grey shorts suit), 2003.109.1 (dark blue suit hidden), 2006.7.4 (tan pantsuit), 95.83.1 (hat case), 98.119.1 and 99.3.1 (shoes case), 2005.90.9 (black tuxedo), 2005.90.6 (red suit hidden), 97.71.1 (ensemble), 2006.11.4 and 2006.11.3 (textiles wall), 2005.90.5 (taupe suit), 2003.60.2 (skirt ensemble), 2005.25.1 (textile wall), 2006.16.1 (grey suit), 2006.18.1 (dark grey suit)

Object: Suit

Brand: Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche (French, founded 1966)

Designer: Yves Saint Laurent (1936 - 2008)

Retailer: I. Magnin (American, founded 1876)

Date: 1988

Medium: Fuchsia, red, and black silk satin

Country: France

Credit Line: Gift of Rose Marie Bravo

Object number: 2005.90.6

DescriptionTuxedo or smoking style evening suit in two-tone silk satin; fuchsia jacket with contrast black peaked lapels and single button, stand collar variation, padded shoulders; short red straight skirt

Label Text:In the 1970s, the rise of women in the workplace boosted the popularity of masculine-inspired suits. Yves Saint Laurent not only designed some of the best examples of the pantsuit, he pioneered the female tuxedo - "Le smoking" - and made it fashionable. This male costume reconfigured for women was as important an innovation as Chanel's suits had been a few decades earlier.

In Collection(s)

1980s

Exhibitions:

The Tailor's Art