Clip-on gold-plated YSL earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in PARIS, FR
This vintage pair of earrings is signed by the house of Yves Saint Laurent on the clip of the earrings (see photo). This piece from the 1980s is made of gold-plated metal. These magn...
Gold Plate
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Yellow Resin Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone clip-on earrings featuring an irregular shaped yellow resin cabochon.
Gilt Metal
Vintage YSL Diamante Clip-On Half Flower Earrings, 1980s
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent YSL Diamante Half Flower Earrings Circa 1980s. These earrings are a Flower that has been cut in half.
Mixed Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Heart Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone heart clip-on earrings embellished with a blue glass cabochon and embossed with cursive YVES SAINT LAURENT signature.
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Clubs Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold toned and orange resin clubs clip-on earrings. Embossed YSL Made in France.
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Clover Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage clover clip-on earrings featuring orange and red resin heart petals in a gold toned setting.
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Jewelled Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold toned clip-on earrings featuring a blue glass cabochon center and multicolored crystals.
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Clover Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage clover clip-on earrings featuring orange and red resin heart petals in a gold toned setting.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Enamel Flower Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage enamel flower design clip-on earrings embellished with a square clear crystal at the center.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Jewelled Flower Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone clip-on earrings featuring a flower embellished with clear crystals.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Blue Resin Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone clip-on earrings embellished with a blue resin cabochon.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Jewelled Heart Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone heart clip-on earrings embellished with a blue glass cabochon and clear crystals.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Jewelled Flower Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone clip-on earrings featuring an enameled flower embellished with a blue crystal.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Jewelled Flower Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage flower clip-on earrings embellished with fuchsia and green crystals.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Jewelled Domed Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone domed clip-on earrings featuring a gorgeous openwork design of intertwined branches embellished with multicolored crystals.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Jewelled Star Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage silver tone star clip-on earrings embellished with light blue crystals.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Jewelled Domed Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone domed clip-on earrings featuring a gorgeous openwork design of intertwined branches embellished with multicolored crystals.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Jewelled Spade Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage clip-on earrings featuring a spade embellished with pink shade crystals.
Multicolour Beaded Clip-on Earings YSL
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in PARIS, FR
This colourful pair of clip-on earrings is from Yves Saint Laurent. The jewellery is not signed, as is usually done in the Haute Couture house. The earrings are gold-toned, and made ...
Base Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Massive Textured Clip On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage massive gold toned textured clip-on earrings. Embossed YSL Made in France.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Red Crystal Embellished Cross Clip on Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Paris, FR
Saint Laurent YSL red crystal-embellished clip-on earrings featuring a cross shape with crystal embellishment, clip-on design, a plaque pitted at back.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Gold Tone Large Hoop Clip On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Paris, FR
Saint Laurent YSL large hoop clip-on earrings featuring a round hoop shape, a back bar-pin closure.
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Mousson Resin Heart Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage MOUSSON gold‑tone heart clip‑on earrings featuring a faceted plum‑colored resin cabochon.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Butterfly Purple Enamel Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage massive gold tone butterfly clip-on earrings embellished with purple enamel.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Gold Tone Sailboat Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage textured gold tone clip-on earrings featuring a sailboat. Embossed YSL Made in France.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Gunmetal Yellow Resin Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gunmetal tone with etched pattern clip-on earrings featuring a large irregular shaped yellow resin cabochon.
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Orange Cabochon Sun Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage textured sun clip-on earrings featuring an irregular shaped orange resin cabochon at the center.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Jewelled Gold Tone Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone openwork clip-on earrings embellished with a clear crystal at the center.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Red Cabochon Textured Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage textured clip-on earrings featuring a large ruby red colour resin cabochon.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Green Cabochon Textured Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage textured clip-on earrings featuring a large emerald green colour resin cabochon.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Green Resin Cabochon Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold toned clip-on earrings featuring an irregular green resin cabochon.
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Leopard Print Pyramid Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold toned raised pyramid clip-on earrings featuring leopard print panels.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Massive Orange Glass Cabochon Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT Rive Gauche vintage massive clip‑on earrings featuring a luminous orange domed glass cabochon framed by a twisted gold‑tone bezel, accented with a marbled, patinat...
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Massive Flower Glass Cabochon Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage massive gold tone flower clip-on earrings embellished with multicolored glass cabochons.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Massive Antiqued Copper Tone Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage massive antiqued copper tone disc clip-on earrings. Embossed YSL Made in France.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Red Resin Cabochon Logo Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage textured gold toned clip-on earrings featuring a red domed resin cabochon with YSL logo inlaid.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Jewelled Gold Tone Nest Design Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone nest design clip-on earrings embellished with a large green resin cabochon at center surrounded by multicolored crystals.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Gold Tone Mythological Creature Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone clip-on earrings featuring a raised and textured mythological creature.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Gold Tone Jewelled Heart Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone heart clip-on earrings embellished with clear crystals.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Gold Tone & Orange Resin Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone clip-on earrings embellished with resin faceted stones in orange color forming a dome shape.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Gold Tone & Blue Resin Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone clip-on earrings featuring a square blue iridescent resin cabochon at the center.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Gold Tone Jewelled Heart Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold tone heart clip-on earrings featuring a braided design embellished with blue crystals.
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gold Toned Lady Profile Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage raised gold toned lady profile coin clip-on earrings set in a torsade patterned rim.
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Jewelled Gold Toned Nest Desgin Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage gold toned nest design clip-on earrings embellished with a large red resin cabochon at center surrounded by multicolored crystals.
Gilt Metal
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Gold Tone Red Resin Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage MURANO gold tone textured diamond shaped clip-on earrings embellished with a red resin cabochon.
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Black Green Oval Abstraction Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage abstraction clip-on earrings featuring a black and green resin oval.
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gold Toned Blue Resin Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage oval-shaped gold toned clip-on earrings embellished with a large irregular facetted blue resin cabochon.
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Iconic Jewelled Initials Heart Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage iconic gold toned initials heart clip-on earrings embellished with clear and ruby crystals.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Jewelled Gold Toned Floral Clip On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
Yves Saint Laurent vintage gold toned floral clip-on earrings embellished with multicolored crystals.
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Silver Tone Clear Blue Resin Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage silver tone textured diamond shaped clip-on earrings embellished with an irregular clear aqua blue resin cabochon.
YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL Vintage Gold Tone Crescent Red Resin Clip-On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Nice, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage textured gold tone crescent shape clip-on earrings embellished with a red resin cabochon.
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Boucles d'oreille Maxi Precious Snake Clip on Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in PARIS, FR
Yves Saint Laurent XXL clip-on earrings in blackened silver metal and rhinestones of different shapes in different shades of blue. Width 5.7 x height 9.8 cm. The earrings are in exce...
1980s Vintage Yves Saint Laurent YSL Gold Tone Four-Leaf Clover Clip On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Vilnius, Vilniaus apskr.
This is a pair of vintage four-leaf clover shape clip on earrings designed by YSL in 1980’s. The piece is gold plated.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Paris Gilded Metal Textured Clip Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Atlanta, GA
The earrings are signed at the back with the YSL pierced logo on the fastenings and engraved on the underside: "YSL and Made in France."
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Green Emerald Gold Crystal Square Rectangle Clip Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Rive Gauche Vintage 1980s Arty Green Emerald Cabochon Crystal Textured Dots Square Rectangle Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
Gold Plate
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Large Yellow Oval Double Crystals Clip Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Large Double Yellow Citrine Crystals Cabochon Oval Rectangle Square Chunky Statement Modernist Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good conditi...
Gold Plate
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Silver Heart Love Ribbed Unisex Clip Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Unisex Heart Love Logo Abnormal Ribbed Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Silver Tone Very excellent condition.
Silver
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gold Starfishes Star Textured Vivid Clip Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Massive Large Textured Vivid Starfishes Star Pentagram Modernist Elegant Chunky Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. 100% Genuine.
Gold Plate
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Logo Black Geometric Shell Crystals Clip Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Unisex Logo Geometric Shell Black Crystals Modernist Chunky Clip Earrings Very good condition. 100% Genuine.
Brass
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Massive Large Chunky Vivid Shell Clip Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL 1980s Vintage Arty Unisex Massive Large Vivid Shell Chunky Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
Gold Plate
YSL Blue Chandelier Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in London, GB
A pair of elegant YSL clip on earrings from the 1990's. Made in France in gold plated metal.
Gold Plate
YSL 1980s Vintage Clip on Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in London, GB
YSL 1980s Vintage Clip on Earrings Excellent condition Approx 1.5 inches across
Gold Plate
YSL 1980s Vintage Clip on Statement Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in London, GB
YSL 1980s Vintage Clip on Statement Earrings Excellent condition 1.2 x 0.5 inches
Gold Plate
Yves Saint Laurent YSL 80s Clip On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Brunswick West, Victoria
Clip on earrings by Yves Saint Laurent. Circa 80s. Excellent condition demonstrating little to no visible signs of wear. Length: 8 cm Width: 6 cm
YSL Yves SAINT LAURENT, Clip-on Earrings, Vintage 80s
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in SAINT-CLOUD, FR
Magnificent Clip-on Earrings, 80s vintage, in silver metal adorned with glass rhinestones, by YVES SAINT LAURENT, haute couture, signed YSL (clasp and on the back), inscription "Mad...
Large YSL Yves Saint Laurent Clip On Earrings from 1980s
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in CHAMPEAUX-SUR-SARTHE, FR
Large YVES SAINT LAURENT Clip On Earrings featuring a Sun in Gold Tone Openwork Metal, Very Rare Design form the 1980s !
YSL Yves Saint Laurent Blue Glass Crystal Clip On Earrings from 1980s
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in CHAMPEAUX-SUR-SARTHE, FR
YVES SAINT LAURENT Clip On Earrings, Amazing Vintage Blue and Green Swarovski Crystals in a Gold Tone Metal Openwork - Gold Tone Metal and Blue, Green Swarovski Crystal Cabochons -...
1980s YSL Yves Saint Laurent Matte Goldtone and Brown Cabochon Clip on Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Palm Springs, CA
These YSL Yves Saint Laurent Matte Goldtone and Brown Cabochon Clip on Earrings have the comfy lever back clip on mechanism.
1980’s YSL Gold Plated Four Leaf Clover Clip- On Earrings Costume Jewellery
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in London, GB
The gold plated textured metal Four Leaf Clover has a baroque faux pearl in the centre. The back of each earring and the clips are signed YSL. The condition is excellent, there are v...
Unavailable
YSL EARRINGS
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Paris, IDF
Pair of gold plated clip-on earrings signed by YSL
Unavailable
YSL EARRINGS
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Paris, IDF
Gold plated and orange and pink resin
YSL Nugget Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Litchfield County, CT
1980s large golden YSL nugget clip on earrings, signed. Darkened gunmetal detailing.
Unavailable
YSL Rive Gauche Crystal Earrings 80s
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Verviers, BE
These YSL Rive Gauche crystal stones are to die for!!! We love them. So glamour, timeless and collectable. Made of silver plated metal and crystal stones. Very unusual to find! Sign...
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Rare Arabesque YSL copper earrings late 70s
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Verviers, BE
Rare & collectable YSL vintage arabesque copper earrings of the late 70s. Marked: YSL made in france. Size: 4 x 2.7 cm. Excellent condition
Yves Saint Laurent Blue Crystal Earrings YSL
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in London, GB
A pair of vintage clip on earrings by Yves Saint Laurent set with 2 shades of blue crystals.
Base Metal
Yves Saint Laurent Green Crystal earrings YSL
Located in London, GB
A pair of vintage clip on earrings by Yves Saint Laurent set with 3 shades of green crystals.
Base Metal, Gold Plate
YSL Vintage Floating Heart Earrings Faux Gold Tone Romantic!
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Toronto, ON
Very romantic and fun YSL "floating" heart motif gold tone earrings. Clip on earrings are marked YSL.
YSL Collector by Roger Scemama Flowers Earrings 1966
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Verviers, BE
Flower power and collectable !!! Haute Couture 60s jewelry, a book piece ! Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture made by Roger Scemama in 1966. Made of gilt metal and resin cabochons. S...
Vintage Signed Yves St. Laurent YSL Amethyst Poured Glass Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in New York, NY
These clip earrings measure 1-3/8” x 1”, are signed “YSL”, and are in excellent condition.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Gold-Tone Eiffel Tower Earrings, 1980s
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Bethesda, MD
Art deco Yves Saint Laurent YSL gold-tone Eiffel Tower clip on earrings, circa mid-1980s.
Vintage Signed Yves St. Laurent YSL Aqua Blue Poured Glass Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in New York, NY
The earrings measure 1-1/4” and are signed “YSL”. They are in excellent condition.
Vintage 1970s Yves Saint Laurent Oversized Silver Plate YSL Y Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Portland, OR
These iconic Yves Saint Laurent late 1970's or early 1980's vintage "Y" statement earrings are in a hammered silver plated metal. These YSL clip-ons are very collectible and would be...
Silver Plate
YSL vintage 1990's Art Earrings Gold Tones Large! Very Romantic
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Toronto, ON
Very romantic large triangle gold tone earrigs. Clip on back closures and marked YSL/Made in France.
Unavailable
1990s Yves Saint Laurent JAZZ Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in New York, NY
Earrings are clip-on and are signed YSL.
YSL vintage 1980's Hammered Gold Tone HUGE earrings! Yves Saint
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Toronto, ON
Really great and oversized gold tone vintage 1980's YSL earrings. Clip on earrings measure 4 1/4 inches in length and about 2 at their widest point.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Clip On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Paris, FR
Yves Saint Laurent YSL embellished clip on earrings featuring ivory round beads with gold-tone leaves, back plaque pitted.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Clip on Earrings Floral Gilt Metal Ruby Red Rhinestone
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Atlanta, GA
Romantic Yves Saint Laurent YSL Paris clip-on earrings. Elegant gilt metal floral shape, metal all textured with hand-made feel compliment with ruby red textured resin cabochon rhine...
Gilt Metal
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Glass Clip On Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Paris, FR
Yves Saint Laurent YSL by Robert Gossens featuring red strawberries with gold tone metal details, a clip-on fastening, back plaque YSL. Circa 1990s They come as a pair. Maxi lengt...
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.
Crafted to match every color palette, mood or whim, a luxurious pair of vintage clip-on earrings, like any pair of earrings, goes a long way toward completing a look and contributing to the rich form of self-expression that is accessorizing with your favorite jewelry.
Everyone loves a glamorous pair of earrings, but not everyone wants their ears pierced. That’s where a dazzling pair of clip-ons comes in.
Wearing earrings goes back thousands of years, but ear piercing didn’t really become popular in the United States until the 1950s and ’60s. Over the years, jewelry designers have endeavored to create all kinds of clip-on earrings to provide jewelry lovers with a way to express themselves by wearing their favorite adornments without having to undergo the piercing process.
Whether it’s the extravagant diamond clip-on drop earrings or chandelier earrings that flappers donned during Art Deco’s heyday — short hair was in style during the era, so women favored big, bold earrings — or if subdued pearl earrings, platinum earrings (a particularly versatile choice) or a contemporary variety is your thing, clip-on earrings have been made in all kinds of styles over the years.
Clip-on earrings continue to be a comfortable alternative to the traditional iteration, and these accessories are as stylish and adaptable to both casual and formal wear as they’ve ever been.
Explore a vast range of vintage clip-on earrings on 1stDibs now, and find the perfect pair for any ensemble. Our collection includes striking clip-on earrings by David Webb, Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels and others.