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In the early
sixties the sack dress eventually evolved into the shift dress. Then
1960's fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent got the idea of a pattern of large,
different coloured panels (colour blocks) as a design for these dresses,
inspired by the "Mondrian" style of 60's
painting art of those days. From this idea he created the Mondrian day dress.
This idea was copied by other designers - with the result that
the block panel style dress is now a 60s fashion iconic dress.
The original
mondrian dress used the colours white, red, blue, yellow and black. Later
copies had other combinations, the most well-known being the classic 60's
black and white shift dress.
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