Spring 1985 Yves Saint Laurent Ad Campaign Black Jersey Plunge Dress designer-lanvin The faceted glass crystal button

The faceted glass crystal button detailing is the perfect contrast to the jersey - it's an ingenious way to give it a little glitz without ruining the perfect simplicity of the jersey

Proper dressmakers buttons holes

Waist: 13" flat across from side seam to side seam before any room given for the lacing

Here we have a dress that really showcases his love of color and his mastery of mixing color with print

Spring 1985 Yves Saint Laurent Ad Campaign Black Jersey Plunge Dress designer-lanvin The faceted glass crystal buttonThe red version of this dress was used for the 1985 ad campaign shot by Helmut Newton and featuring long time muse, Kirat Young. This is one of the iconic pieces of that season and I am very pleased to have found this. The dress is made from a slinky black silk jersey that has enough weight and drape to it to perfectly fall into the sharp angular lines that Yves wanted it to be shaped in. It perfectly represents this time period with its precisely