F/W 1976 YVES SAINT LAURENT FOURRURES
High-collar shearling overcoat with beadwork button closure, designed in conjunction with the Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture collection 'Operas - Russian Ballets'.
Shearling, wooden beads. Designed by Yves Saint Laurent.
Interior with label "Yves Saint Laurent Fourrures".

Shoulder to shoulder: 18" (46 cm), arm outseam 25" (63 cm), bust 36" (91 cm), waist 34" (86 cm), hip 37" (94 cm), length 38" (96 cm)

Regarded by Yves Saint Laurent himself as his favorite ever designed, this collection was inspired by the Operas-Ballet Russes and Russian folk art. Regarded as one of the most influential collections and is collected in museums worldwide.

"A revolutionary collection that will change the course of fashion worldwide."   - Bernadine Morris’s New York Times coverage of Saint Laurent’s Fall 1976 couture shows (Paris, July 1976)

"It's a painter's collection, inspired by Delacroix's odalisques, Ingres's women, Van Eyck's Woman with a Pearl Earring [actually, Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring], La Tour, Rembrandt, Degas's dancers, with their black bodices, but also by Senso's Visconti, the American Civil War, and Sternberg's Marlene. It's extremely selfish because I've exhibited, much more than dresses, everything I love in painting. For daytime wear, everything starts with traditional cuts from Russia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Morocco. That's where the naiveté of the cut comes from, which makes it youthful, along with the color."  - Yves Saint Laurent, quoted in Vogue, September 1976

"'What is your most beautiful memory in your thirty years of designing?’

'The collection inspired by Russia. Perhaps it wasn’t the most successful one, but it was wonderfully received at a time when the world condemned opulence. And it was opulent.’'  - Yves Saint Laurent, cited in Elle, January 27, 1992

Excellent condition.