Dress
Yves Saint Laurent, Paris (French, founded 1962)
Artists have conversations with one another, challenging one another, shaping one another, sometimes outright copying one another as in this homage by Yves Saint Laurent to Piet Mondrian, the Dutch painter famous for a series of canvases much like the shift Saint Laurent created: Vertical and horizontal intersecting lines whose resultant blocks are occasionally filled with only the three primary colors. It was post-War 1919 Paris that led Mondrian to this revolutionary form of graphic abstractionism and harmony of pure color. It was the revolutionary 60s counter-culture in fashion that led Saint Laurent to refer to his predecessor in this now classic dress.
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