c1907-1920 Mariano Fortuny Pleated Muted Raspberry Silk Gown designer-adele-simpson The scarf is a long

The scarf is a long rectangle and the butterfly there sits half on one side and half on the opposite

One small area of missing beads on one row on the left front shoulder

I love these Malcolm Starr pieces - they really are works of art and the best of the sixties/seventies arts and crafts movement

The halter that goes over the head has no closures

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c1907-1920 Mariano Fortuny Pleated Muted Raspberry Silk Gown designer-adele-simpson The scarf is a longSimilar Fortuny gowns are held in museums and private collections world wide and they are becoming increasingly hard to find. A version in green is a part of the permanent collection at The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (pictured). The description of that gown is so wonderful I thought I would share it with you here verbatim: "Mariano Fortuny created a number of variations of his pleated silk gowns. In this model, he combined