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Saint Laurent Rive Gauche s/s 1983 silk roses pattern off shoulders ruffle gown

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L 48.04 in

Saint Laurent Rive Gauche s/s 1983 silk roses pattern off shoulders ruffle gown

By Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche

Located in Milano, IT

Saint Laurent Rive Gauche spring/summer 1983 black silk rainbow roses pattern off shoulders ruffle neck midi dress with pleated skirt (S) Rare and collectible item from Saint Laurent...

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1980s French Evening Dresses

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Archival 1974 Yves Saint Laurent Documented Brown Floral Print Satin Maxi Dress

By Yves Saint Laurent, Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche

Located in Beverly Hills, CA

A totally gorgeous and highly coveted Yves Saint Laurent floral print maxi dress from the infamous Rive Gauche 1974 fall-winter collection. Finding documented pieces from this decade...

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1980's YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Paris ruffle dress

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Size: FR 38

1980's YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Paris ruffle dress

By Yves Saint Laurent, Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche

Located in Newport Beach, CA

Excellent condition, 1980's YVES SAINT LAURENT Paris ruffle dress. This gorgeous, one-shoulder, cocktail dress is made of black crepe with silky satin inner facing. The ruffles, ...

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1980s French Cocktail Dresses

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Saint Laurent Rive Gauche Black Velour V-Neck Dress

By Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche

Located in Kingston, NY

The iconic Saint Laurent Rive Gauche black velvet cocktail dress with a v-neckline accentuated by a black satin tiered ruffle. The dress has the pouf detail at the shoulder of the sl...

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1980s French Cocktail Dresses

Jean Paul Gaultier Vintage Wall and Flags Print Pants Trousers

By Jean Paul Gaultier

Located in Nice, FR

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER vintage pants trousers featuring a multi colored wall and flags print. These trousers feature : - Velvety touch material. - Front buttoning. - Front and back pock...

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BOB MACKIE Green Chiffon Flower Embellished Gown Size 2 4

$3,295

Size: 2

BOB MACKIE Green Chiffon Flower Embellished Gown Size 2 4

By Bob Mackie

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This vintage Bob Mackie gown is composed of a light green mint hue silk chiffon. The upper bodice features an embellished center front and short sleeve, with a floral pattern. There ...

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20th Century American Evening Dresses and Gowns

Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche Avant-Garde Hooded Dress c 21st C

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$490

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DONNA KARAN red halter plunge tucked draped evening gown dress L

By Donna Karan

Located in Hong Kong, NT

DONNA KARAN red halter plunge tucked draped evening gown dress L Reference: JHDN/A00050 Brand: Donna Karan Material: Viscose, Blend Color: Red Pattern: Solid Closure: Slip On Lining:...

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Rive Gauche Black Gown For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate vintage or contemporary rive gauche black gown for your needs in our varied inventory. Black is a pretty popular color, but we also have Brown, Pink, Gray and more in stock now. You’re likely to find the perfect rive gauche black gown among the distinctive accessories we have available, which includes versions made as long ago as the 19th Century as well as those produced as recently as the 21st Century. Making an accessory such as this has likely been a part of the legacy of many fashion designers, but those produced by Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, Yves Saint Laurent and Tom Ford are consistently popular. If you’re browsing our inventory for these accessories, you’ll find that many are available today for women, but there are still pieces to choose from for men and unisex.

How Much is a Rive Gauche Black Gown?

Prices for a rive gauche black gown can differ depending upon size, designer and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these accessories begin at $331 and can go as high as $50,000, while, on average they fetch $1,292.

Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche for sale on 1stDibs

Visionary French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent was the first to launch a ready-to-wear label, YSL Rive Gauche Prêt-à-Porter. The inaugural Rive Gauche boutique — a modern shop in Paris’s bustling, bohemian Left Bank district — offered stylish garments and accessories that were intended to be affordable for a younger generation of fashion enthusiasts. The store featured Mies van der Rohe chairs and played host to actor Catherine Deneuve during its grand opening.

Saint Laurent pioneered “cross-design” in fashion, taking inspiration from street trends to modernize haute couture. He was the first couturier to open boutiques for both men and women. Using traditional menswear fabrics and designs for women, he also literally cross-dressed, giving men and women alike chic pant suits, elegant tuxedo jackets and urban safari gear. By blurring gender-specific design, he empowered individual style while creating a scissor-sharp fashion aesthetic of sensual ease and beauty. Many of his designs are today considered timeless classics. Saint Laurent also consistently used Black models, like Mounia, Iman and Naomi Campbell, and he drew endless inspiration from different ethnicities and cultures, in no small part because of his Algerian roots.

Born to French parents in Oran, Algeria, in 1936, Saint Laurent went to Paris at age 17 to study fashion at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Just two years later, in 1955, his remarkable sketches were shown to Christian Dior, then the world’s reigning couturier, who hired him immediately.

Surprisingly soon thereafter, Dior publicly chose Saint Laurent as his successor, which sadly proved prescient when the fashion legend died unexpectedly, in 1957. A mere slip of a youth, the 21-year-old Saint Laurent was nevertheless up to the challenge. He shook the traditional couture clientele to its core with youthful silhouettes and styles like the A-line trapeze dress that hung with seeming effortlessness from the shoulders, the antithesis of the pinched waists and molded skirts that had been all the rage after the deprivations of World War II.

After a mandated spell in the torturous French military, Saint Laurent suffered a nervous breakdown and was dismissed by Dior in 1962. Out of the ashes rose the Age of Yves. With Pierre Bergé, his then-lover who became his lifelong business partner and friend, the designer founded Yves Saint Laurent YSL to encompass prêt-à-porter, or ready-to-wear. In 1966, they opened the first YSL Rive Gauche women’s boutique in Paris — Rive Gauche is French for “left bank” — followed soon thereafter by YSL Rive Gauche for men. Ready-to-wear materialized during a period of dynamic transformation and experimentation and came to dominate the Paris fashion scene. Saint Laurent had given birth to a global brand.

His revolutionary Mondrian mini dress from 1965 is a core element of his fashion biography. It is a prime example of how Saint Laurent, an avid art lover and collector, looked to painters, from Goya to Picasso, Ingres to Matisse, for inspiration.

With its pure lines and hues, Mondrian’s ground-breaking 1935 color-block painting Composition C transmutes beautifully into a dress that is highly valued by collectors of contemporary fashion and widely copied commercially to this day. The design is the epitome of Saint Laurent’s aesthetic, requiring a meticulous hand piecing of each color block so that, despite the body’s curves, the visual plane is as flat as a canvas when the garment is worn. Mondrian’s purity met its match in Saint Laurent.

“I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style,” Saint Laurent said four years before retiring, in 2002. After a long period of ill health, he died at his home in Paris on June 1, 2008.

The vintage YSL Rive Gauche clothing for sale on 1stDibs includes evening dresses and gowns, jackets, shoes, handbags and other items.

Finding the Right Evening-dresses for You

With entire museum exhibitions dedicated to examining fashion designers and their creations, we’re finally recognizing that costuming is art. Evening dresses over time have conveyed specific statements about social class, position and beliefs. Fashion is a powerful means of self-expression, and sophisticated vintage evening dresses and gowns by our favorite couturier play no small role in making us feel wonderful but, perhaps more importantly, making us feel like ourselves.

In the 16th century, dresses and gowns were so important that England's Queen Elizabeth I defined rules about what dresses women could wear — guidance included long skirts and fitted bodices. Forward-thinking designers have responded to this history.

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel reimagined traditionally masculine garments for feminine shapes, and her elegant evening dresses and gowns promoted comfort and grace in women’s wear that had been dominated in the previous century by layers of fabric. Christian Dior's gowns celebrated luxury and femininity in the late 1940s — and gave to women the gift of glamour they’d lost in the miserable years of the war. French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent introduced innovative and highly coveted dress designs in the 1960s while at the same time challenging sexist stereotypes about which members of society could wear tuxedos.

Works by unconventional British designer John Galliano — featured in houses like Givenchy and Dior — redefined limits that dressmakers faced in terms of material, construction and vision during the late 20th century. From his embroidered absinthe-green Oscars gown for actress Nicole Kidman to the iconic sleeveless Dior newspaper dress that Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw made famous, Galliano’s intricate and multifaceted work is reliably collectible and newsworthy

Today’s designers target an increasingly broad audience with their boundary-crossing work, and their tendency to play off of each other’s ideas means that every walk down the runway is also a walk through an entire history of fashion design and dress craftsmanship.

Whether you gravitate toward backless maxi dresses or silk charmeuse gowns by Alexander McQueen or embellished, ruffled floral-print designs by Chloe or Versace, there is an extraordinary collection of vintage and designer evening dresses and gowns waiting for you on 1stDibs.