The cover of the 1965 September issue of the French Vogue Magazine showcased a dress from Yves Saint Laurent that would end up becoming one of the most iconic dresses in modern fashion.
Inspired and named after the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, Saint Laurent’s Mondrian day dress – which now resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art – features big blocks of red, yellow and blue outlined by black on a white dress. The then-avant-garde concept of transforming fine art pieces into something wearable wasn’t the only novel aspect of the dress, however. The Mondrian day dress also introduced the concept of introducing multiple colors in a single outfit during an era when the popular opinion was to pair a single color with neutrals.
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