Object: Dress
Brand:
Christian Dior
(French, founded 1947)
Designer:
Yves Saint Laurent
(1936 - 2008)
Date: 1960
Medium: Silk faille
Country: France
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: 2017.80.1
DescriptionDress; pink silk faille, fitted sleeveless bodice with scoop neckline and center front rose at waist, bubble skirt with hobble hem, attached silk petticoat, center back zipper
Label Text:We tend to identify pink with the 1950s (the era of “Think pink!”), but American Vogue (1963) declared the 1960s “the new pink decade.” Diana Vreeland “wasn’t afraid to dedicate 20 pages to pink,” recalled her colleague Polly Mellen. Not only would there be “pink lipstick and nail polish all over the ad pages,” soon “you were seeing pink on every street corner.”
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color
- Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion