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1969
Collaboration with Claude Lalanne

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While the Pop Art movement was enjoying considerable success in the 1960s, the couple François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne were making nature-inspired sculptures based on animal and plant forms. As early as 1965, Yves Saint Laurent commissioned from them the legendary bar that would first occupy his apartment on the Place Vauban before being moved to his library on the Rue de Babylone. 

For Saint Laurent’s Autumn-Winter 1969 haute couture collection, Claude Lalanne made a series of casts of the model Veruschka’s body that were worn with two diaphanous chiffon dresses, one blue and the other black. She also made a number of sculptural pieces of jewelry in galvanic copper.

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Evening gown worn by Dominique Pommier. Autumn-winter 1969 haute couture collection. 30 bis rue Spontini, Paris, July 1969. Photograph by Alexis Witzig., © Droits Réservés
Evening gown worn by Dominique Pommier. Autumn-winter 1969 haute couture collection. 30 bis rue Spontini, Paris, July 1969. Photograph by Alexis Witzig.
© Droits Réservés
Evening gown worn by Lisa. Autumn-winter 1969 haute couture collection. 30 bis rue Spontini, Paris, July 1969. Photograph by Alexis Witzig., © Droits Réservés
Evening gown worn by Lisa. Autumn-winter 1969 haute couture collection. 30 bis rue Spontini, Paris, July 1969. Photograph by Alexis Witzig.
© Droits Réservés
Original sketch of an evening gown. Autumn-winter 1969 haute couture collection., © Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris
Original sketch of an evening gown. Autumn-winter 1969 haute couture collection.
© Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris
Claude Lalanne molding the model Lisa's body at the Lalannes' country house near Fontainebleau, August 1969. Phptograph by Manuel Litran, published in Paris Match, August 23, 1969., © Manuel Litran / Paris Match / Scoop
Claude Lalanne molding the model Lisa's body at the Lalannes' country house near Fontainebleau, August 1969. Phptograph by Manuel Litran, published in Paris Match, August 23, 1969.
© Manuel Litran / Paris Match / Scoop
Dominique Pommier and Lisa in the desert wearing evening gowns with sculpted elements created by Claude Lalanne. Autumn-winter 1969 haute couture collection. Photograph by Manuel Litran, published in Paris Match, August 23, 1969., © Manuel LITRAN/PARISMATCH/SCOOP
Dominique Pommier and Lisa in the desert wearing evening gowns with sculpted elements created by Claude Lalanne. Autumn-winter 1969 haute couture collection. Photograph by Manuel Litran, published in Paris Match, August 23, 1969.
© Manuel LITRAN/PARISMATCH/SCOOP