That’s all I could think when yet another Saint Laurent model appeared wearing what was essentially a nylon stocking transformed into a dress.
Of the 48 looks teetering out on needle-sharp stilettos in the Saint Laurent show, only 12 didn’t have breasts front and center (and of those 12, three were minidresses with their own built-in garter belts to attach to the stockings below).
Forget about the practicality of making a pantyhose dress, or the question of who would want to wear it in the first place.
Maybe at one point, when Yves Saint Laurent was first pushing boundaries and making a sheer blouse back in 1966, so much visible skin was a shocking, subversive thing in public or on a fashion runway.
Maybe in the beginning it was empowering: an escape from the prison of old mores and outdated gender rules.
Persons:
Laurent, Saint Laurent, Yves Saint Laurent