Day 4: Lucy Norris
On day four of her Tumblr curation, fashion historian Lucy Norris celebrates the year 1965 with a deep dive into Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrian dress and its influence.
On day four of her Tumblr curation, fashion historian Lucy Norris celebrates the year 1965 with a deep dive into Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrian dress and its influence.
To kick off our look back at the year 1965 - and a glance at how it is influencing fashion creativity 50 years later – we will today be celebrating Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrian dress. Inspired by the De Stijl Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, Yves Saint Laurent transformed the dress into a walking canvas. Mondrian’s geometric grids and primary colours saw Saint Laurent create a timeless must have collectors item from the flat, griddled primary colours, which too communicated essentialism. The Mondrian dresses – part of the Autumn / Winter 1965 collection – are the most famous examples of how Yves Saint Laurent literally lifted art from the gallery wall, and placed it on a hanger.
