Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Rare Massive Nest Crystals Pearl Swirl Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Massive White Round Circle Pearl Cabochon Red Pink Yellow Blue Green Crystals Swirl Nest Openwork Chunky Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Tone Very...
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YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Rare Oversized Purple Heart-and-Arrow Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage rare oversized heart-and-arrow brooch featuring a purple resin heart and antiqued silver-tone arrow embellished with clear crystals.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gold Lyre Harp Crystals Music Openwork Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Elegant Large Lyre Harp Whole Crystals Openwork Music Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Gold Fuchsia Red Crystals Flower Marquise Openwork Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage 1980s Flower Fuchsia Purple Violet Red Crystals Marquise Cabochon Openwork Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Plated Very excellent condition, not any col...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Gripoix Large Cross Blue Sapphire Enamel Crystal Brooch
By Robert Goossens for Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL by Robert Goossens Vintage Arty Unisex Large Gripoix Navy Cross Enamel Openwork Blue Sapphire Crystal Elegant Chunky Statement Brooch Pendant, Gold Tone Very...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Robert Goossens Gold Fuchsia Red Purple Heart Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Robert Goossens Vintage Unisex Fuchsia Red Purple Cabochon Heart Love Crystal Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Plated Very excellent condition, maybe light scra...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Roger Scemama Large Ruby Crystal Flower Chunky Brooch
By Roger Scemama for Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Roger Scemama 1960s Vintage Large Massive Red Ruby Crystal Flower Layer Chunky Statement Elegant Modernist Brooch Pendant, Gold Plated Very good condition.
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Robert Goossens Ruby Vintage Large Heart Openwork Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Robert Goossens Unisex Large Two 2 Ruby Red Abnormal Cabochon Stone Circle Heart Love Interlocked Openwork Brooch, Gold Plated Very good condition, only dark ...
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Vintage YVES SAINT LAURENT Ysl by Goossens Ruby Red Glass Cabochon Flower Brooch
By Maison Goossens for Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Kingersheim, Alsace
Vintage YVES SAINT LAURENT Ysl by Robert Goossens Ruby Red Glass Cabochon Flower Brooch Features: - 100% Authentic YVES SAINT LARENT by Robert Goossens. - Openwork flower brooch wit...
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Robert Goossens Shell Coral Branch White Crystals Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Robert Goossens Iconic Classic White Coquillage Shell Coral Crystals Branch Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Plated Very good condition.
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1980s Vintage Yves Saint Laurent YSL Gold Tone Red Enamel Heart Brooch Pendant
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Vilnius, Vilniaus apskr.
This is a vintage heart pin brooch/pendant designed by YSL in 1980’s. The piece is gold plated.
Vintage YVES SAINT LAURENT Ysl by Goossens Rhinestone Wire Swirl Pendant Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Kingersheim, Alsace
Vintage YVES SAINT LAURENT Ysl by Goossens Rhinestone Wire Swirl Pendant Brooch Measurements: Height: 2.83 inches (7.2 cm) Width: 2.83 inches (7.2 cm) Features: - 100% Authentic YV...
YVES SAINT LAURENT Ysl by Robert Goossens Ethnic Coral Medallion Pendant Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Kingersheim, Alsace
Vintage YVES SAINT LAURENT Ysl by Robert Goossens Ethnic Coral Stone Disc Medallion Pendant Brooch Measurements: Height: 2.40 inches (6.1 cms) Width: 2.40 inches (6.1 cms) Features...
YVES SAINT LAURENT Ysl by Robert Goossens Coral Branch Medallion Pendant Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Kingersheim, Alsace
Vintage YVES SAINT LAURENT Ysl by Robert Goossens Coral Branch Overlay Disc Medallion Pendant Brooch Measurements: Height: 2.16 inches (5.5 cms) Width: 2.16 inches (5.5 cms) Featur...
Vintage Massive YVES SAINT LAURENT Ysl Rive Gauche Exotic Wood Heart Brooch
By Robert Goossens for Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Kingersheim, Alsace
Vintage Massive YVES SAINT LAURENT Ysl Rive Gauche Exotic Wood Heart Brooch Measurements: Height: 3.15 inches (8cm) Width: 3.62 inches (9.2 cm) Features: - 100% Authentic YVES SAIN...
SAINT LAURENT 2022 Cassandre Opyum Snake YSL aged gold textured metal pin brooch
By Saint Laurent
Located in Hong Kong, NT
SAINT LAURENT 2022 Cassandre Opyum Snake YSL aged gold textured metal pin brooch Reference: CYVN/A00079 Brand: Saint Laurent Designer: Anthony Vaccarello Collection: Fall/Winter 2022...
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gold Long Leaf Feather Bow Heart Crystals Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Symmetric Long Leaf Feather Bow Heart Whole Shining Crystals Chunky Elegant Brooch, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Arty Gold Gripoix Red Ruby Thistle Chunky Brooch Pendant
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty 1980s Gripoix Ruby Red Thistle Flower Pineapple Jelly Belly Pendant Elegant Brooch, Gold Plated Very excellent condition.
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Gripoix Gold Red Ruby Green Bow Octagon Patchwork Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gripoix Ruby Octagon Rectangle Crystal Green Red Enamel Patchwork Knot Bow Tie Brooch, Gold Plated Very excellent condition, only one dark spot at bac...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Rare Gold Large White Pearl Flower Chunky Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Huge Large Double Layer Flower White Pearl Elegant Chunky Brooch, Gold Tone Excellent condition.
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Rare Gold Red Ruby Heart Crystals Feather Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Collection Haute Couture Automne-Hiver 1984/85 Unisex Long Double Heart Love Ruby Red Crystals Feather Bow Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Tone Ve...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Arty Gold Green Blue Maltese Cross Thistle Pendant Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Ripple Lake Green Blue Enamel Maltese Cross Thistle Pineapple Flower Elegant Modernist Chunky Brooch Pendant, Gold Tone Very excellent condition,...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gold Gripoix Blue Aqua Crystal Fan Chunky Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage 1980s Gripoix Aqua Blue Oval Whole Sparkling Crystals Fan Palace Baroque Openwork Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Plated Very excellent condition, not ...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Blue Aqua Gold Love Heart Crystal Cabochon Brooch
By Robert Goossens for Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Robert Goossens Vintage Unisex Aqua Blue Cabochon Heart Love Crystal Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Plated Very good condition, not any colour loss. oxidised ...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gripoix Red Ruby Gold Clover Crystal Long Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Robert Goossens Vintage Unisex Gripoix Ruby Red Oval Clover Flower Crystal Cabochon Long Drop Circle Ring Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Plated Very excellent...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Large Ruby Red Stone Wire Gold Pendant Openwork Brooch
By Robert Goossens for Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Robert Goossens Vintage Large Ruby Cabochon Stone Round Circle Interlocked Openwork Brooch, Gold Plated Very excellent condition.
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Gripoix Ruby Huge Four Clover Love Heart Brooch Pendant
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Haute Couture Arty Gripoix Huge Ruby Red Cabochon Four Clover Heart Love Pendant Choker Necklace Modernist Elegant Chunky Statement Brooch, Gold Tone Very exc...
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Yves Saint Laurent 2005s Broche Pins YSL Silver Metal Crystal Gun Brooch Pin
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in PARIS, FR
Yves Saint Laurent brooch pins circa 2004 in silver metal with a pistol motif encrusted with white rhinestones. Width 3.5 cm x height 2.15 cm. The slightly yellow traces on the photo...
Yves Saint Laurent Silver-tone “YSL” Cassandre pin
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Paris, FR
Yves Saint Laurent Silver-tone “YSL” Cassandre pin featuring a YSL” Cassandre shape and a back pin fastening. Circa 1990s In good vintage condition Made in France. Length: 1.18i...
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Haute Couture Iconic Gripoix Ruby Citrine Pearls Pendant
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage 1970s Arty Large Gripoix Cross Clover Citrine Ruby Yellow Orange Red Cabochon White Pearls Modernist Elegant Chunky Statement Pendant Brooch, Gold Tone...
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Vintage YVES SAINT LAURENT Ysl by Robert Goossens Lion Profile Medallion Pendant
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Kingersheim, Alsace
Vintage YVES SAINT LAURENT Ysl by Robert Goossens Lion Profile Medallion Pendant Brooch Measurements: Height: 2.08 inches (5.3 cm) Width: 2.16 inches (5.5 cm) Features: - 100% Auth...
1990s Elegant Costume Jewelry Brooch by Yves Saint Laurent
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Aci Castello, IT
This 1990s Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) costume jewelry brooch is an exquisite example of the bold, glamorous aesthetic for which the brand was renowned.
1990s Elegant Costume Jewelry Brooch by Yves Saint Laurent
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Aci Castello, IT
This 1990s Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) costume jewelry brooch is an exquisite example of the bold, glamorous aesthetic for which the brand was renowned.
1986 Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Gold Brooch and Necklace
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in London, GB
The back of the brooch features a plaque engraved with “YSL” and it fastens with a roll-over clasp.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Arty Vintage Rare Gold Aurora Meteor Pendant Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage 1980s Arty Unisex Aurora Star Pentagram Lucky Meteor 4 Four Balls Circle Round Grape Crystals Elegant Modernist Brooch Pendant, Gold Plated Very excel...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gold Pendant Double Layer Dogwood Flower Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Unisex Large Hammered Textured Flower Double Layer Dogwood Chunky Statement Elegant Modernist Brooch Pendant, Gold Plated Very excellent condition.
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Rare Gripoix Cross Red Gold Pendant Chunky Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL by Robert Goossens Vintage Arty Unisex Large Gripoix Red Cross Enamel Openwork Citrine Yellow Crystal Elegant Statement Brooch Pendant, Gold Tone Very excel...
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YVES SAINT LAURENT OPIUM Perfumed Pendant Necklace Tassel W/Box C.1977
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in London, GB
Styled in the photos with an Yves Saint Laurent vintage long jacket and with an YVES SAINT LAURENT Vintage YSL Red Large Triangle Earrings & Brooch Set C.1980s for sale separately - ...
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.
Vintage brooches, which refer to decorative jewelry traditionally pinned to garments and used to fasten pieces of clothing together where needed, have seen increasing popularity in recent years.
While jewelry trends come and go, brooches are indeed back on the radar thanks to fashion houses like Gucci, Versace, Dior and Saint Laurent, all of which feature fun pinnable designs in their current collections. Whether a dazzlingly naturalistic Art Nouveau dragonfly, a whimsical David Webb animal, a gem-studded bloom or a streamlined abstract design, these jewels add color and sparkle to your look and a spring to your step.
Given their long history, brooches have expectedly taken on a variety of different shapes and forms over time, with jewelers turning to assorted methods of ornamentation for these accessories, including enameling and the integration of pearls and gemstones. Cameo brooches that originated during the Victorian age are characterized by a shell carved in raised relief that feature portraits of a woman’s profile, while 19th-century micromosaic brooches, comprising innumerable individually placed glass fragments, sometimes feature miniature depictions of a pastoral scene in daily Roman life.
At one time, brooches were symbols of wealth, made primarily from the finest metals and showcasing exquisite precious gemstones. Today, these jewels are inclusive and universal, and you don’t have to travel very far to find an admirer of brooches. They can be richly geometric in form, such as the ornate diamond pins dating from the Art Deco era, or designer-specific, such as the celebrated naturalistic works created by Tiffany & Co., the milk glass and gold confections crafted by Trifari or handmade vintage Chanel brooches of silk or laminated sheer fabric. Chanel, of course, has never abandoned this style, producing gorgeously baroque CC examples since the 1980s.
Brooches are versatile and adaptable. These decorative accessories can be worn in your hair, on hats, scarves and on the lower point of V-neck clothing. Pin a dazzling brooch to the lapel of your blazer-and-tee combo or add a cluster of smaller pins to your overcoat. And while brooches have their place in “mourning jewelry,” in that a mourning brooch is representative of your connection to a lost loved one, they’re widely seen as romantic and symbolic of love, so much so that a hardcore brooch enthusiast might advocate for brooches to be worn over the heart.
Today, find a wide variety of antique and vintage brooches for sale on 1stDibs, including gold brooches, sapphire brooches and more.