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Mondrian dress snapped up ahead of YSL anniversary

A Mondrian dress by iconic French designer Yves Saint Laurent was snapped up on Thursday, star lot of a vintage sale held half a century after his fashion house was founded.

Sold for 30,000 pounds (about R380 000) the dress was part of a capsule collection of nine Saint Laurent pieces, dating from 1962 to 1970, at a Christie’s clothing sale stretching from the 18th century to the 1980s.

Patricia Frost, director of Christie’s textile department, described the dress, inspired by the work of Dutch abstract artist Piet Mondrian, as “a magic carpet piece, it takes you right back to 1966.”

The London sale came just ahead of the 50-year anniversary of the founding of Saint Laurent’s fashion house, on December 4, 1961. The couture house closed in 2002 when the designer stood down.

Since his death in 2008, the mystique of Saint Laurent’s name has sent prices flying at a string of record-smashing auctions of art and belongings accumulated by the designer and his partner Pierre Berge over the decades.

Christie’s intended the sale in part as a retrospective of Saint Laurent’s early career, at Dior from 1957 then striking out on his own aged 25.

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