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Vintage Yves St Laurent

Vintage Yves St Laurent Monogram Garment Carrier Bag, Hanging Cabin Case
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Vintage Yves St Laurent Monogram Garment Carrier Bag, Hanging Cabin Case Very rare dating from the
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1990s French Garment Bags

1960s Yves Saint Laurent YSL Sculpted Ivory Felt Fedora Hat
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Yves Saint Laurent’s millinery was often a crucial part of the looks he designed. Having worked in
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1960s French Hats

Vintage F/W 2004 Black St Tropez Ruffled Bag
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in London, GB
tone, inner zip pocket. In excellent vintage condition. Brand: Yves Saint Laurent Color: Black Year
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Early 2000s French Shoulder Bags

Vintage F/W 2004 Camel St Tropez Ruffled Bag
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in London, GB
tone, inner zip pocket. In excellent vintage condition. Brand: Yves Saint Laurent Color: Camel Year
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Early 2000s French Shoulder Bags

Vintage F/W 2004 Chocolate Brown St Tropez Ruffled Bag
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in London, GB
shiny gold tone, inner zip pocket. In excellent vintage condition. Brand: Yves Saint Laurent Color
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Early 2000s French Shoulder Bags

Vintage F/W 2004 Red St Tropez Ruffled Bag
By Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent
Located in London, GB
YSL by Tom Ford black St Tropez ruffled bag from the Fall/Winter 2004 Rive Gauche. Features red
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Early 2000s French Shoulder Bags

Vintage F/W 2004 Caramel Bag
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in London, GB
condition. Brand: Yves Saint Laurent Color: Brown Year / Season: Spring/Summer 2004 St Tropez Bag Fabric
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Early 2000s French Shoulder Bags

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By Yves Saint Laurent
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Yves St Laurent Limited Edition Necklace & Earrings, Circa 1980
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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By Yves Saint Laurent
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By Yves Saint Laurent
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Yves St. Laurent Red Long Sleeve Wool Dress, Circa 1980
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Vintage Yves St Laurent black & blue silk check bow tie blouse 1970s
By Yves Saint Laurent
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Vintage Yves St Laurent chic black crepe and satin cocktail dress 1990s unworn
By Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, Yves Saint Laurent
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By Yves Saint Laurent
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Vintage Yves St Laurent For Sale on 1stDibs

Find the exact vintage or contemporary vintage yves st laurent you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. Many people prefer Black, but fashion is all about individuality — you can find Gray, Beige and more options on these pages. Finding the perfect vintage yves st laurent may mean sifting through those that were made during different time periods — popular versions were made as early as the 20th Century and a newer one, made as recently as the 21st Century, can also be found on the site. An accessory like this designed by Yves Saint Laurent, Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche and Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent — each of whom created a beautiful version of this treasured item — is worth considering. If you’re browsing our inventory for these accessories, you’ll find that many are available today for women, but there are still pieces to choose from for men and unisex.

How Much is a Vintage Yves St Laurent?

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Yves Saint Laurent for sale on 1stDibs

French designer Yves Saint Laurent pioneered “cross-design” in fashion, taking inspiration from street trends to modernize haute couture.

Saint Laurent was the first to launch a ready-to-wear label, YSL Rive Gauche Prêt-à-Porter. He was the first couturier to open boutiques for both men and women. Using traditional menswear fabrics and designs for women, Saint Laurent also literally cross-dressed, giving men and women alike chic pant suits, elegant tuxedo jackets and urban safari gear.

By blurring gender-specific design, Saint Laurent empowered individual style while creating a scissor-sharp fashion aesthetic of sensual ease and beauty. Many of his designs are today considered timeless classics. Saint Laurent also consistently used Black models, like Mounia, Iman and Naomi Campbell, and he drew endless inspiration from different ethnicities and cultures, in no small part because of his Algerian roots.

Born to French parents in Oran, Algeria, in 1936, Saint Laurent went to Paris at age 17 to study fashion at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Just two years later, in 1955, his remarkable sketches were shown to Christian Dior, then the world’s reigning couturier, who hired him immediately.

Surprisingly soon thereafter, Dior publicly chose Saint Laurent as his successor, which sadly proved prescient when the fashion legend died unexpectedly, in 1957. A mere slip of a youth, the 21-year-old Saint Laurent was nevertheless up to the challenge. He shook the traditional couture clientele to its core with youthful silhouettes and styles like the A-line trapeze dress that hung with seeming effortlessness from the shoulders, the antithesis of the pinched waists and molded skirts that had been all the rage after the deprivations of World War II.

After a mandated spell in the torturous French military, Saint Laurent suffered a nervous breakdown and was dismissed by Dior in 1962. Out of the ashes rose the Age of Yves. With Pierre Bergé, his then-lover who became his lifelong business partner and friend, the designer founded Yves Saint Laurent YSL to encompass prêt-à-porter, or ready-to-wear. In 1966, they opened the first YSL Rive Gauche women’s boutique in Paris, followed soon thereafter by YSL Rive Gauche for men. Saint Laurent had given birth to a global brand.

His revolutionary Mondrian mini dress from 1965 is a core element of his fashion biography. It is a prime example of how Saint Laurent, an avid art lover and collector, looked to painters, from Goya to Picasso, Ingres to Matisse, for inspiration.

With its pure lines and hues, Mondrian’s ground-breaking 1935 color-block painting Composition C transmutes beautifully into a dress that is highly valued by collectors of contemporary fashion and widely copied commercially to this day. The design is the epitome of Saint Laurent’s aesthetic, requiring a meticulous hand-piecing of each color block so that, despite the body’s curves, the visual plane is as flat as a canvas when the garment is worn. Mondrian’s purity met its match in Saint Laurent.

“I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style,” Saint Laurent said four years before retiring, in 2002. After a long period of ill health, he died at his home in Paris on June 1, 2008.

Browse an extraordinary collection of vintage Yves Saint Laurent evening dresses, shirts, handbags and other clothing and accessories today on 1stDibs.