Installation View, Solid Gold. Brooklyn Museum, November16, 2024 – July 6, 2025
YVES SAINT LAURENT, Paris, France, founded 1961
YVES SAINT LAURENT, French, born Algeria, 1936–2008, Evening Ensemble, Haute Couture collection
Fall/Winter 1995 –96, Embroidered black velvet jacket ; black satin skirt; earrings; velvet pumps Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Paris. YVES SAINT LAURENT Paris, France, founded 1961, YVES SAINT LAURENT French, born Algeria, 1936–2008 Ensemble, Ready-to-Wear collection, Fall/Winter 1996–97, Black and gold reptile-print leather tunic with arabesque patterns embroidered with gold sequins and beads, white rhinestone cabochons, and teardrops; silver satin viscose skirt; black satin ankle boots, Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, and CHRISTIAN DIOR, Paris, France, founded 1946, MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI, Creative director, Italian, born 1964
Numéro 352 (also known as Miss Dior), Haute Couture collection, Spring/Summer 2021,Gold silk dress embroidered with lattice of handmade gold flowers and petal motifs; gold openwork leather boots; brass rings; pearl, necklace with golden brass floral medallion;
gold metal tiara with pearls, Dior Héritage collection, Paris , inv. 2021.2298, and CHRISTIAN DIOR
Paris, France, founded 1946 GIANFRANCO FERRÉ
Artistic director (1989–96), Italian, 1944–2007 Hélios, from Summer Impressions Haute Couture collection
Spring/Summer 1993 Jacket with gold bugle bead , sequin , and glitter embroidery and gilded leaves; belt inlaid with vermilion bugle beads; trousers with white – and gold-painted sequin embroidery and gold papier cinétique overlay Dior Héritage collection, Paris , inv. 1993.26, Gianfranco Ferré’s Summer Impressions
collection comprised seventy-nine creations
presented in three sections: “In the Eye of the
Sun,” “Summer Fires,” and “Gallant Parties.” In his
notes, Ferré stated, “The morning sun rises from
amidst trembling foliage, like a premonition of
silhouette.” Evoking imagery of being exposed to
the sun’s intensity, he continued “At the hour
when dawn grows, long and slender silhouettes
appear in an almost diaphanous whiteness.”
Ferré’s Hélios ensemble is named after the Greek
sun god, who rises from the ocean every morning
and sets in a blaze of color each evening.
