Mondriaan dress

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In 1965, Yves Saint Laurent designs a series of high-necked jersey dresses with large Mondrian designs. The simple form of the design acts as a canvas for the colour blocks in yellow, blue and white with straight black lines. In Piet Mondrian's abstract paintings, some of these lines deliberately do not extend all the way to the edge. Both the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag – the museum with the most Mondrians in the world – have original YSL copies in their possession. Two artists, one object. With this reinterpretation of modernism, the museums are thus killing two birds with one stone.

Image: Yves Saint Laurent, 1965, © Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag

 

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