Yves Saint Laurent's Le Smoking: introduced autumn-winter 1966, snubbed by couture clients with one sold, photographed by Helmut Newton in 1975 for French Vogue photograph

It was part of his autumn-winter 1966 collection known as Pop Art. Newton took the photograph on Rue Aubriot, in the Marais.

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01YVES SAINT LAURENT'S TUXEDO FOR WOMEN, LE SMOKING, FIRST WALKED IN HIS AUTUMN-WINTER 1966 COLLECTION.

02HIS COUTURE CLIENTS SNUBBED IT. ONLY ONE WAS SOLD.

03IN 1975 HELMUT NEWTON PHOTOGRAPHED IT FOR FRENCH VOGUE, IN A HAZILY LIT PARIS ALLEYWAY.

04THE STORY GOES THAT NAN KEMPNER WAS REFUSED A TABLE AT A NEW YORK RESTAURANT FOR WEARING TROUSERS. SHE TOOK THEM OFF.