1980s Yves Saint Laurent One Shoulder Velvet Dress promo As photographed by Irving Penn

As photographed by Irving Penn for Vogue US' "Total Skin Care"

It has a loose gypsy feel cut to it and has a fabulous green and purple cross hatching design on it

but when it is an Ossie done with an original Celia Birtwell print

Each leg is cut extra wide and full so initially you think it is a maxi dress but it has the ease and comfort of a pant

Kloss was genius at choosing extremely high quality nylons that draped exactly as he wished and this high quality always shows with his pieces

1980s Yves Saint Laurent One Shoulder Velvet Dress promo As photographed by Irving PennThis dress is lovely and has that classic one shoulder cut. It does not have any YSL tags in it but does retain its YSL printed interior fabric loops to hang it. I have only ever seen this on the inside of the Variations YSL label so I would guess that this si from that line, The Variations label was a lower cost ready to wear line that was produced through the 1980s. I do not usually buy from this label but made an exception for this dress as it has