Yves Saint Laurent Documented Crepe Musical Note Print Skirt, 1982

When Hedi Slimane took over as creative director of Yves Saint Laurent in 2012, he began reaching back into the house’s archives for inspiration. More often than not, however, he radically reinterpreted the classics to suit his cool-girl take on Parisian high fashion. One of the treasures he left almost untouched was the black-and-white music note print. For his fall 2016 menswear collection, which included womenswear and debuted at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, he showed it in all its original beauty on a dress worn by model Kiki Willems. In the description accompanying the look, he said its reintroduction was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Yves Saint Laurent’s Rive Gauche label. Its original appearance, of course, was in the fall/winter 1982 collection. It was so loved that it became the focal point of the advertising campaign that season. The twisting and twirling notes look playful on crepe, which is what this skirt is designed from. The A-line silhouette has clea