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Article: Paris YSL. (new fashions from Yves Saint Laurent)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- January 29, 1987
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paris YSL OPINION: Like the late Coco Chanel, Saint Yves Laurent is beyond criticism.
NEWS: Short, short hemlines, sober, cut-and-dried silhouettes, unadorned but for oversize flap pockets at the hips, less accent on the waist, more on the hip, jersey tunics, belted at the hip over crisscrossed-in-front jersey skirts, rising high in an inverted V To the crotch; loosely lined dresses buttoned up the front with foreshortened sleeves; the impeccably tailored YSL suit with long single-buttoned jackets and wrapped-in-front skirts; the burlesque cocktail dress, micro-short in Guipure lace bordered with rufles or wrapped in huge Gazar bows at the hip; off-the-shoulder ...