Example sentences for: yves

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  • The ensemble that fetched the highest price--$17,250 (advance estimate $1,500-$2,000; buyer anonymous)--was a formal black taffeta, strapless dress with a matching shawl-collared jacket designed by Yves St. Laurent for Christian Dior in 1958.

  • He went from painting realistic New York scenes to concocting mythological motifs with titles like Archaic Idol and Tentacles of Memory . In a way, the shift was less abrupt than it seemed, for Rothko traded in one set of underground subjects, the subway, for another, the "depth psychology" strata of the unconscious, with dreamscape bric-a-brac lifted from Surrealist painters Joan Miró and Yves Tanguy.

  • The most important of contemporary Canadians here include Guido Molinari, Yves Gaucher, and Michael Snow.

  • 8: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (Paramount); Slouching to Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline , by Robert Bork (ReganBooks/HarperCollins); Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher (weeknights at 12:05 a.m. on ABC); Mother (Paramount Pictures); Some Mother's Son (Castle Rock); Christian Dior: The Man Who Made the World Look New , by Marie-France Pochna, translated by Joanna Savill (Arcade); and Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography , by Alice Rawsthorn (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday).

  • The menswear shows deployed a similar suggestiveness--a form-fitting shape, a brazen inventiveness of texture and hue, a daring sweep of cuff, collar, and coattail, all totally forbidden by Saville Row, but gloriously worked up for women during the last 30 years by the likes of Yves Saint Laurent.


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