Object: Evening gown
Brand:
Yves Saint Laurent
(French, founded 1961)
Designer:
Yves Saint Laurent
(1936 - 2008)
Date: c. 1978
Medium: Silk satin
Country: France
Credit Line: Gift of Mildred S. Hilson
Object number: 82.99.1
DescriptionShocking pink and black satin evening gown
Label Text:The 1970s was not a pink decade for women’s fashion, although some designers continued to use the color. Yves Saint Laurent, for example, always loved pink, and admired Schiaparelli because “she gave pink the nerve of red. A pink that went on to devour everything in its path… Shocking pink!”
Exhibitions:
- Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashioning the 70s
- Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color