Fall 1980 Christian Dior True Haute Couture Two Piece Silk & Silk Velvet Dress designer-maggy-rouff More embroidery work runs down

More embroidery work runs down each wide sleeve and across the entire front panel in huge breastplate design

70" to the back hem

Its a great example of his early work and looks to have never been worn

The silk layers underneath are all cut on the bias and this gives it a lovely movement and makes it very comfortable to wear once on the body

in December of 1979

Fall 1980 Christian Dior True Haute Couture Two Piece Silk & Silk Velvet Dress designer-maggy-rouff More embroidery work runs downThis gorgeous dress from the last years of Marc Bohan's grand career as head of Dior is from the Fall 1980 collection. In the book Dior; Catwalk, the notes on the fall collection state that the collection notes read that; "Bohan was inspired by 'Baroque fancies and pre Raphaelite chinoiserie'." and that "the designer created 'sinuous and subble bias cut evening dresses pleated 'a la Fortuny". This dress has the added provenance of having been photoed