1973 Yves Saint Laurent Pink Silk Ruffle Set designer-loris-azzaro Mosaique Au 24 by Benoit

Mosaique Au 24 by Benoit Pierre Emery

Fortuny took this structural attribute and achieved the similar

flower power crop top set by Nina Ricci

During this time period India was a great fascination as it opened to the Western world and you saw pieces made for he Western market made of these fine and beautiful silks

that would have been completely overseen by the house of† Desses and is how "ready to wear" pieces were produced for† clients

1973 Yves Saint Laurent Pink Silk Ruffle Set designer-loris-azzaro Mosaique Au 24 by BenoitThis is an exceptional silk taffeta ball gown skirt and ruffled top set that also retains its original sash. I have added two photos the monotone one is from the "Yves Saint Laurent; Icons of Fashion Design" book and shows the haute couture gown from the 1971 72 collection inspired by Marcel Proust. Yves designed these "poetic taffeta gowns in what might be termed a Proustian vein" is what the book states. This haute couture look was then translated