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Saint Laurent Lucite Belt

Yves Saint Laurent Lucite & Gold Hardware Chain Belt
Yves Saint Laurent Lucite & Gold Hardware Chain Belt

Yves Saint Laurent Lucite & Gold Hardware Chain Belt

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in New York, NY

Yves Saint LAurent lucite and gold hardware chain belt is highlighted with their signature "YSL" name-plate attached.

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1970s French Belts

Yves Saint Laurent Couture 1970s Green Lucite ChainLink belt
Yves Saint Laurent Couture 1970s Green Lucite ChainLink belt

Yves Saint Laurent Couture 1970s Green Lucite ChainLink belt

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Boca Raton, FL

A rare 1970s Yves Saint Laurent Couture lucite chainlink belt in a highly sought-after translucent green colorway.

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1970s French Belts

Yves Saint Laurent Couture 1970s Yellow Lucite ChainLink belt
Yves Saint Laurent Couture 1970s Yellow Lucite ChainLink belt

Yves Saint Laurent Couture 1970s Yellow Lucite ChainLink belt

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Boca Raton, FL

A rare 1970s Yves Saint Laurent Couture lucite chainlink belt in a striking marbled yellow colorway.

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Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Lucite Squares Silver Belt Necklace
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Lucite Squares Silver Belt Necklace

Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Lucite Squares Silver Belt Necklace

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Boca Raton, FL

This circa 1970 Yves Saint Laurent belt is made from clear lucite squares and circles connected by silver tone links.

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1970s French Modern Belts

Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Lucite Rings Silver Link Belt Necklace
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Lucite Rings Silver Link Belt Necklace

Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Lucite Rings Silver Link Belt Necklace

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Boca Raton, FL

This circa 1970 Yves Saint Laurent belt is made from clear lucite squares and circles connected by silver tone links.

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1970s Yves Saint Laurent Paris Tortoise Lucite Brass Necklace Waist/Hip Belt
1970s Yves Saint Laurent Paris Tortoise Lucite Brass Necklace Waist/Hip Belt

1970s Yves Saint Laurent Paris Tortoise Lucite Brass Necklace Waist/Hip Belt

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Atlanta, GA

So cool vintage 1970s Yves Saint Laurent Paris signed necklace / belt. Versatile use of this lovely extra long chain composed with Lucite or Resin rings in tortoiseshell color and g...

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1970s French Belts

Yves Saint Laurent Tortoise Lucite Belt Necklace YSL, 1970s
Yves Saint Laurent Tortoise Lucite Belt Necklace YSL, 1970s

Yves Saint Laurent Tortoise Lucite Belt Necklace YSL, 1970s

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Boca Raton, FL

This YSL faux tortoise link collectable accessory can be worn as a belt or necklace. Made up 18 square tortoise pieces and 6 circular pieces ,YSL engraved gold hang tag. Measurements...

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1970s French Belts

1970s Yves Saint Laurent Clear Lucite Acrylic Chain Necklace Belt
1970s Yves Saint Laurent Clear Lucite Acrylic Chain Necklace Belt

1970s Yves Saint Laurent Clear Lucite Acrylic Chain Necklace Belt

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in West Hollywood, CA

TheRealList presents: a clear acrylic and silver-tone metal Yves Saint Laurent belt, designed by Yves Saint Laurent. From the 1970s, this stunning belt features alternating acrylic r...

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1970s French Belts

1980s YVES SAINT LAURENT Jet Lucite 'Hearts' Belt
1980s YVES SAINT LAURENT Jet Lucite 'Hearts' Belt

1980s YVES SAINT LAURENT Jet Lucite 'Hearts' Belt

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Phoenix, AZ

Fine & rare vintage Yves Saint Laurent 'jet' Lucite 'Hearts' belt. Authentic 1980s Rive Gauche item.

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1980s French Belts

1970s Vintage YSL Clear Square & Disc Lucite Link & Chunky Gold Belt or Necklace
1970s Vintage YSL Clear Square & Disc Lucite Link & Chunky Gold Belt or Necklace

1970s Vintage YSL Clear Square & Disc Lucite Link & Chunky Gold Belt or Necklace

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Portland, OR

We love this vintage 1970's YSL square lucite link belt w/ gold metal hardware! The beautiful lucite squares and circle donut shapes are connected by beautiful gold hardware hooks. T...

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Saint Laurent Lucite Belt For Sale on 1stDibs

Surely you’ll find the exact vintage or contemporary saint laurent lucite belt you’re seeking on 1stDibs — we’ve got a vast assortment for sale. If you’re looking for an option in Beige and you’re unable to find the right fit, there are plenty of variations in Brown, Blue and more. Finding a saint laurent lucite belt for sale for women should be easy, but there are 3 pieces available to browse for men as well.

How Much is a Saint Laurent Lucite Belt?

On average, a saint laurent lucite belt on 1stDibs sells for $650, while they’re typically $75 on the low end and $750 for the highest priced versions of this item.

Yves Saint Laurent for sale on 1stDibs

French designer Yves Saint Laurent pioneered “cross-design” in fashion, taking inspiration from street trends to modernize haute couture.

Saint Laurent was the first to launch a ready-to-wear label, YSL Rive Gauche Prêt-à-Porter. He was the first couturier to open boutiques for both men and women. Using traditional menswear fabrics and designs for women, Saint Laurent also literally cross-dressed, giving men and women alike chic pant suits, elegant tuxedo jackets and urban safari gear.

By blurring gender-specific design, Saint Laurent 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, followed soon thereafter by YSL Rive Gauche for men. 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.

Browse an extraordinary collection of vintage Yves Saint Laurent evening dresses, shirts, handbags and other clothing and accessories today on 1stDibs.

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On 1stDibs, an extensive collection of modern and vintage belts can be found in a variety of styles and materials, including everything from iconic Gucci logo belts, which, emblazoned with the legendary Italian brand’s “GG” insignia, are ubiquitous among fashion lovers today, to stylish Hermès belts, which are part of a wide range of covetable leather fashion accessories from the family-owned luxury goods company. The interchangeable gold-plated belt buckle, now available in innumerable variations, is revered by Hermès enthusiasts. The world’s legion of collectors hunting down rare Kelly bags likely know this belt buckle and its history, which extends all the way back to 1967. It was crafted by Hungarian-born French fashion designer Catherine de Károlyi, who worked for Robert Piguet and Christian Dior before landing at Hermès, where she also designed the house’s first women’s ready-to-wear collection.

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