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Ysl White Jacket

Yves Saint Laurent YSL White Cotton Jacket
Yves Saint Laurent YSL White Cotton Jacket

Yves Saint Laurent YSL White Cotton Jacket

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Paris, FR

Yves Saint Laurent YSL White cotton blazer featuring notched lapels, a camel piping, front button fastening, patched pockets, cotton lining. Circa 1990s. 100% cotton Made in France...

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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Black and White Checked Jacket
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Black and White Checked Jacket

Yves Saint Laurent YSL Black and White Checked Jacket

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Paris, FR

Yves Saint Laurent YSL black & white wool checked jacket featuring a black collar, front button fastening, notched lapels, shoulder pads, long sleeves with buttoned cuffs, black ...

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1980s YSL Yves Saint Laurent Vintage White Cotton Cropped Jacket
1980s YSL Yves Saint Laurent Vintage White Cotton Cropped Jacket

1980s YSL Yves Saint Laurent Vintage White Cotton Cropped Jacket

By Yves Saint Laurent, Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche

Located in Portland, OR

This vintage 1980's Yves Saint Laurent cropped jacket is in a luxe white cotton that is perfect for Summer!

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1970's YVES SAINT LAURENT Black & white stroller jacket YSL

1970's YVES SAINT LAURENT Black & white stroller jacket YSL

Located in Newport Beach, CA

Never worn, 1970's YVES SAINT LAURENT Black & white stroller jacket. This fabulous coat was designed by Yves Saint Laurent during the late 1970's in France. This coat was never...

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1970s French Coats and Outerwear

1980's Yves Saint Laurent YSL White Jacket with Dome Buttons
1980's Yves Saint Laurent YSL White Jacket with Dome Buttons

1980's Yves Saint Laurent YSL White Jacket with Dome Buttons

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Chic Yves Saint Laurent white cotton jacket from the early 80's. Collarless, with large black dome shaped buttons down center and slash pockets on each hip. Both sleeves have four la...

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1980s French Blazers

White jacquard cotton jacket with rhinestone buttons YSL Variation
White jacquard cotton jacket with rhinestone buttons YSL Variation

White jacquard cotton jacket with rhinestone buttons YSL Variation

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine, FR

White jacquard cotton jacket with rhinestone buttons. White Acetate lining. Shoulder-pad. SIZE 38 (Fr) 6 (US)

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1980s French Single-Breasted Jackets

Vintage Yves Saint Laurent ' Rive Gauche ' Black + White Tartan Plaid Blazer YSL
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent ' Rive Gauche ' Black + White Tartan Plaid Blazer YSL

Vintage Yves Saint Laurent ' Rive Gauche ' Black + White Tartan Plaid Blazer YSL

By Yves Saint Laurent, Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche

Located in San Diego, CA

Incredible vintage Yves Saint Laurent "Rive Gauche" black and white Tartan Plaid wool blazer! Features contrasting black velvet under collar that looks great flipped up. Chic double ...

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Yves St. laurent Tweed Jacket

Yves St. laurent Tweed Jacket

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in New York, NY

YSL black and white tweed, cropped, jacket with wide black braiding detail.

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1980s Black & White Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche Classic Jacket YSL

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Located in Wallkill, NY

Clean lines on this Yves Saint Laurent Jacket. Classic look with the Black & white trim. Measuring. Up to 40in on the bust. Up to 36in on the waist. Sleeve 22.5in -- 21.5 in. Long. ...

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1980s French Blazers

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YVES SAINT LAURENT A/W 2005 YSL Off White Tweed Peak Lapel Collar Blazer Jacket

YVES SAINT LAURENT A/W 2005 YSL Off White Tweed Peak Lapel Collar Blazer Jacket

By Yves Saint Laurent, Stefano Pilati

Located in Thiensville, WI

Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche YSL Autumn / Winter 2005 off white cotton tweed peak lapel collar blazer/jacket.

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Early 2000s French Blazers

YSL Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche Vintage Black + White Polka Dot Blazer Jacket
YSL Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche Vintage Black + White Polka Dot Blazer Jacket

YSL Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche Vintage Black + White Polka Dot Blazer Jacket

By Yves Saint Laurent, Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche

Located in Sparks, NV

Darling black and white polka dot blazer jacket by Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche. Details: Fully Lined Front Pockets Front Button Closure Marked Size: F 42 Color: White/ B...

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1980s French Blazers

Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauch Herringbone Double Breasted Jacket
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By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Oakland, CA

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YSL Black and White Houndstooth Blazer
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By Yves Saint Laurent

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21st Century and Contemporary French Blazers

Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche YSL Tweed Jacket with Zipper 46
Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche YSL Tweed Jacket with Zipper 46

Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche YSL Tweed Jacket with Zipper 46

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in San Francisco, CA

Offered is a great looking piece by YSL, a black and white tweed jacket with silver thread embellishment throughout.

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YSL Yves Saint Laurent Vintage Cream Open Front Cropped Jacket or Blazer
YSL Yves Saint Laurent Vintage Cream Open Front Cropped Jacket or Blazer

YSL Yves Saint Laurent Vintage Cream Open Front Cropped Jacket or Blazer

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Portland, OR

This is a versatile Yves Saint Laurent vintage cropped jacket with and open front. It made in a ribbed cream fabric with a cream silk lining. This is a great YSL blazer that can be w...

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Yves Saint Laurent Vintage Cream Ribbed Wool YSL Blazer Jacket w Black Lapels

Yves Saint Laurent Vintage Cream Ribbed Wool YSL Blazer Jacket w Black Lapels

By Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Portland, OR

This fabulous vintage Yves Saint Laurent double breasted ribbed wool blazer jacket is in a beautiful cream color with black satin silk lapels. There are nice, heavy gold tone metal r...

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Ysl White Jacket For Sale on 1stDibs

Find the exact vintage or contemporary ysl white jacket you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. White is a pretty popular color, but we also have Gray, Black and more in stock now. Making the right choice when shopping for a ysl white jacket may mean looking at versions that date from different eras — you can find early iterations from the 20th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century, both of which have proven very popular over the years. Finding an appealing accessory such as this — no matter the origin — is easy, but Yves Saint Laurent, Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche and Stefano Pilati each produced a popular version that is worth a look. There aren’t many items for men if you’re seeking these accessories, as most of the options available are for women and unisex.

How Much is a Ysl White Jacket?

On average, a ysl white jacket on 1stDibs sells for $529, while they’re typically $295 on the low end and $950 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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No matter if you’re preparing for a fashion event or a weather event — you’re going to need a good jacket.

What would become the modern jacket as we know it began as a strictly professional item. A lot of the vintage and designer jackets (and coat styles such as the Navy-inspired peacoat) in our closets were likely popularized by soldiers who battled aggressive climes with their regulation field jackets, bombers and parkas buttoned or zipped to the chin. Indeed, keeping troopers comfortable guided the design of the military surplus garments that have often become buzzy fashion trends. But now, jackets add far more than warmth to our wardrobe, and we hunt down outer layers branded with peerless fashion labels.

Fashion’s most iconic creations, despite their age, remain modern: Biker jackets originated in the 1920s, Balenciaga’s celebrated puffers are steeped in a tradition of down coats that began in the 1930s and your vintage denim jacket has come an even longer way, from California Gold Rush to wardrobe staple. Jeans bequeathed jean jackets during the 1880s, thanks to Levi Strauss, who crafted the former as a durable garment to be worn by miners and railroad workers. Later, jeans and jean jackets became synonymous with nonconformity and rebelliousness — with fashion legends such as actor James Dean in the 1950s and model Veruschka in the 1960s and ’70s leading the indigo-toned charge.

Another fashion rebel, Coco Chanel, used the classic tweed jacket to introduce more comfort and mobility into women’s daily lives. Debuting in 1954 and based on a cardigan, the groundbreaking Chanel jacket forever changed what women wear. The garment reacted against the fitted, constricting styles of Christian Dior’s New Look, which, as Chanel saw it, was making women dress like decorative objects.

On 1stDibs, find bold collections from cutting-edge contemporary designers who’ve taken the classic silhouette of the jacket to new heights or build out your array of vintage treasures (denim or otherwise) with dazzlers from Yves Saint Laurent, Gianni Versace, Moschino and more.