Yves Saint Laurent's first Dior collection, the Trapeze line, 30 January 1958, at 21, three months after Dior's death
Yves Saint Laurent's first collection for Christian Dior (@dior), shown at 10 in the morning on Thursday 30 January 1958, three months after Dior died of a heart attack in Montecatini. Its Trapeze line dropped the cinched waist Dior was known for, for narrow shoulders and a flared skirt.
He was 22 by the time he collected the Neiman Marcus Award later that year.
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01YVES SAINT LAURENT WAS 21 WHEN HE PRESENTED HIS FIRST COLLECTION FOR CHRISTIAN DIOR, ON 30 JANUARY 1958. THE LINE WAS CALLED TRAPEZE.
02DIOR HAD DIED THREE MONTHS EARLIER, ON 24 OCTOBER 1957, AND HAD NAMED SAINT LAURENT AS HIS SUCCESSOR.
03IN PLACE OF DIOR'S CINCHED WAIST CAME NARROW SHOULDERS AND A SKIRT THAT FLARED OUT.
04AN HOUR AFTER THE SHOW BEGAN, THE ROOM GAVE HIM A STANDING OVATION.
05AFTERWARDS HE CAME OUT ONTO THE BALCONY OF THE HOUSE OF DIOR, AT 30 AVENUE MONTAIGNE.