1980-82 Ruffled Halston Spiral Dress in Royal Blue Silk designer-karl-lagerfeld An absolutely gorgeous Pucci dress

An absolutely gorgeous Pucci dress with a sublime and chic color palette in soft caramels and cafe au lait mixed with chocolates

Each of the flowers has a slight puff appearance and its not until you look underneath that you realize that those blue flowers are each backed with extra fabric so they have a slight "lift" effect from the front

Bob Mackie and Hubert de Givenchy

silk crepe chiffon skirt and top set

It closes low at the front and the seaming is predictive of what would go on to become a signature

1980-82 Ruffled Halston Spiral Dress in Royal Blue Silk designer-karl-lagerfeld An absolutely gorgeous Pucci dressFor the Resort 1980 show Halston debuted the ruffle. In the book "Halston, An American Original" It is noted that " this was somewhat of a departure for him, but one that offered him an engineering challenge". Others were doing the ruffle and Halston was "determined to find a way to do it better". By 1980 ruffles were shown in their full glory and WWD even nicknamed Halston "Mr. Ruffle". Ruffles were everywhere between that collection and 1982 and