Corselette in black velvet, tightly laced at front, about £88. Three-tiered skirt in pleated taffeta in shades of flame, about £438. Gold high-heeled pumps with lacing up leg, about £50.
Saint Laurent’s latest evening clothes kick their way straight out of the Moulin Rouge. These are the sexiest clothes ever: tightly-laced bodices on tiny straps, in plain colours, huge billowing, bouffant skirts in brilliant shades of crunchy taffeta or brightly-dyed cotton. Notice the new skirt lengths, short and saucy to only just below the knee, or flamenco-length, a scant two inches above the ankle. Eminently copiable, this look —Janet Reger is already doing the La Goulue corselettes, and your dressmaker could run up a quick twelve yards of taffeta.
One of the models is Sayoko Yamaguchi.
Photographed by Francois Lamy.
Scanned from Harpers and Queen, February 1977.
Corselette in white cotton about £60 ; short full skirt in black cotton, about £107 ; shawl with brilliant flower print on black, about £100. Black patent pumps with satin lacing, about £45. All by Yves Saint Laurent from Saint Laurent Rive Gauche shops at Brompton Rd, SW3 ; New Bond St,W1 and Intercontinental Hotel, Hyde Park,W1. All jewellery by Saint Laurent.
Black velvet corselette with short puffed sleeves, about £150 short full skirt in gold taffeta, trimmed with feathers, about £782 gold pumps with lacing, about £50. All by Saint Laurent.
Corselette in red cotton, about £60 red cotton bermudas, about £57 black lace shawl, about £190. Shoes in black and rose satin with lacing, about £45. All by Saint Laurent.
Corselette in khaki cotton, with puffed sleeves, £107 ; black cotton skirt, £88; black straw hat, about £102. All by Saint Laurent. Black patent pumps with satin ribbons from a selection at Rive Gauche.
Liz Eggleston 