• Its twin walked the runway for Spring 1990 and the reference photos shows how amazing it is once on an actual body.
• Made under the creative direction of Yves Saint Laurent
• The dress has a very Old Hollywood / 1940s feel that I love. 
  
• It is made out of a red silk crepe that drapes beautifully once on. 
  
• The sleeves are fantastic. Each is a big balloon sleeves that puffs out dramatically over the cuffs.
• The front crosses over itself in a plunge. It wraps and snaps to close around the waist and there is a hidden snap that lets you close the V off more or you can leave that open for a full plunge. I love the versatility of this.
• The skirt is gathered in under the waist seam and then it falls to the floor and gently widens out as it near the hem. He was just a master at manipulating fabric to fall perfectly over the body.
• Fully lined in a red silk and closes with a series of snaps around the waist. More hidden snaps run down the seam at the front and there is a snap that closes the plunge more if you wish. 
  
• Slight elastic in the cuffs and elastic around the back of the waist that make the dress very easy to fit.
• Tagged a vintage YSL 42
• I see one darkened mark near the hem at the front and two little nicks out of the fabric in that same area. These are extremely minor and just mentioned for accuracy.
• Excellent condition.

Sleeves: 25.5" and are very full through the upper arm
Shoulders: 15"
Bust: 17-22" flat across from side seam to side seam
Elastic waist: 13-17" flat across from side seam to side seam
Hips: to 21" flat across from side seam to side seam
Bodice: approx 17" from top of shoulder to waist and meant to drape over a bit
Total length: 62" from top of shoulder to hem

Modern Sizing Equivalent: SML-MED

Item# DD5108

Reference Photo: Spring 1990 Yves Saint Laurent Runway.

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• I am always on the look out for this style of dress by Halston. It is perhaps the most iconic of all of the Halston silhouettes.
• In 2016 the twin of this dress entered modern day fashion history when Kate Moss wore its twin on the red carpet at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. 
• We have had Martha Hunt wear a white one version that she sourced from us to Cannes. She landed on several Best Dressed lists as a result. These were made in a variety of colours and this one is a gorgeous red coral colour with a slight orange undertone to it. 
• There is a certain sexiness caused by the illusion of having the entire dress suspended by one shoulder. It gives the sense that the entire dress could drop in a puddle around you.
• It is constructed from two attached layers. The inner dress skims over the body in a long sheath. The inner part of the dress has a high slit that travels up the side of the leg opposite to the draped side. So when you walk or sit you get a flash of leg.
• Attached to that inner sheath lies a draped panel of the same fabric that is suspended from the shoulder. This falls from that shoulder and drapes down and over the front and the back of the dress so that the jersey cascades loosely down and over you.
• This is a classic dress by Halston that is perfect for travelling as it is wash and wear and so easy to style. A quick change of shoe takes it day to night in a snap.
• It looks to have been worn very little if at all.
• The dress slips on to wear with no closures. These will fit a variety of sizes since they are not cut to be super fitted and the jersey does have some stretch.
• There is no size tag present, so please go by the measurements listed below
• Excellent condition

Bust: 17.5-19" flat across from side seam to side seam
Waist: 18-20" flat across from side seam to side seam
Hip: to 21" flat across from side seam to side seam
Total length: 59" from top of shoulder to longest point of hem
Slit: 29" from hem up

Modern Sizing Equivalent: SML-LRG

Item# DD5107

Reference Photo: (1) Summer 1977 Halston.  /  (2-3) Kate Moss in Vintage Halston at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.  /  (4) Karen Bjornsen, Alva Chinn, Connie Cook and Pat Cleveland in Halston Dresses, photographed by by Harry Benson, 1978. / (5) Martha Hunt wearing a white version from us in Cannes, 2019.  /  (6) Martha Hunt on Harper's Bazaar Australia Best Dressed List. /  (7) Halston Form Fit Ad, Vogue, October 1980.

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• The twin of the dress walk the Spring 1974 runway. We have included a photo for you and a photo of another dress in the same fabric just because it is interesting to see that he loved this fabric so much that he used it for more than one piece.
• Made under the creative direction of Jules-Francois Crahay 
• Jules-Francois headed the Lanvin ateliers from 1964-1984. He has been noted as one of fashion’s 'great colorists with his colorful patterns making his 1970s Lanvin designs hugely desirable and influential.' His time at the Lanvin label is one of my personal favourites for the house.
  
• The dress would have been completely made by hand in the Paris Atelier
• The fabric is a feather light silk gazaar that is phenomenal. It is covered in a mint green and white floral print that covers the dress from head to toe. I think it would be impossible to wear this dress and not feel joyful.
• The dress has an inner more fitted piece that angles down from the wide strap of the shoulder. It is shaped over the bust and the waist is nipped in.
• The skirt falls from there and flares out quite substantially around you.
• A panel of silk is attached all the way around the neckline and then falls freely over the inner dress. It is split open all along one side and fall on the other from your shoulder down to the hem.
• Because of the lightness of the fabric your slightest movement causes it to move and billow around you. It is phenomenal.
• Inside everything has been done by hand to Couture standards including all of the hems which have been hand rolled.
• It is lined through the bodice in an ivory silk chiffon and the skirt is lined in ivory silky feeling fabric. It closes at the side with a zipper.
• There are no size tags so please go by the listed measurements below.
• Excellent condition

Bust: 16" flat across from side seam to side seam
Waist: 13" flat across from side seam to side seam
Hips: open
Bodice: 14" from top of shoulder to waist
Total length: 54" from top of shoulder to hem

Modern Sizing Equivalent: XS-SML

Item# DD5104

Reference Photos: Spring 1974 Lanvin.

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• The pair behind the La Mendola label met in Rome in 1960 and started their business making dresses and selling them one by one, piece by piece. In 1967 they opened a shop. They soon had a Hollywood following and mega stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Rita Hayworth become regular clients who were buying and even wait-listing for pieces as they were produced. They made all of the pieces in their ateliers and designed their own prints. Clients would be sent swatches of the season's available prints and then they would place their orders. They were highly sought after by the jet set crowd. Their pieces travelled extremely well and the colours they used were beautiful. Their atelier closed in 1974.
• In the past I had one of their dresses come into the shop and the original owner of that dress had kept the fabric swatch options for the 1972 season along with her correspondence with the atelier. They named all of their prints. I kept a digital copy of it which I have added here and it is very similar to the green turquoise print in those swatches.
• The fabric that they used for their pieces were very high end chiffons and jerseys and this dress is made from one of those silk jerseys combined with a hand beaded silk chiffon.
• These fabrics were prized for their ability to take colour and print and the jumpsuit is as bright and vibrant as when it was first made. 
• This was almost certainly a custom piece and is most likely a one-of-a-kind.
• The green and blues used in the print are gorgeous and it is even better in person then how it photoed.
• At first glance you appear to be wearing a dress but it does actually have a jumpsuit underneath that top overlay.
• Everything falls from one shoulder which leaves the other shoulder bare. There is a long sleeve on one side and the sleeve is made out of a silk chiffon. The entire sleeve is been hand covered in beads.
• The overlay is attached around the neck and has an opening for the sleeve to come out of and then it falls over the inner jumpsuit all the way to the floor. It is split on both sides so that when you walk you really see the legs of the jumpsuit underneath.
• The overlay is made out of two layers of silk chiffon printed in the same fabric as the rest of the piece and then the outer layer is completely hand beaded. The beading is dense and covers the entire overlay. It would be astonishing to know how many hours this took.
• The jumpsuit underneath has a simple cut that skims over you and goes past the waist and over the hips. The pant legs widen out as they near their hem and each is a full 28" around the bottom hem.
• The inner jumpsuit is made out of a silk jersey that has some stretch, so it is very comfortable and easy to wear
• Unlined and both the inner jumpsuit and the outer overlay close with their own zippers. There is also a zipper at the cuff of the sleeve.
• Hand finished throughout. Tagged a vintage La Mendela 8. The measurements given are the comfortable stretch when laid out flat. The photo of the swatches is from that previous dress. The actual swatch card is not included. 
• There is the occasional bead missing here and there but overall excellent condition.

Sleeve: 24" and is 11" around the upper arm
Bust: 16-18" flat across from side seam to side seam
Waist: 12.5-15.5" flat across from side seam to side seam
Hips: 20-24" flat across from side seam to side seam
Total length: 56" from top of shoulder to hem
Inseam: 32"
Torso: 29" from top of shoulder to inner seam

Modern Sizing Equivalent: XS-MED

Item# DD5105

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• This is from Spring 1974 collection and we found a very similar dress on the runway so you can see how fabulous this is once on.
• Pauline Trigere launched her label in 1942. She was from Paris and moved to the US in 1937. That early French influence showed throughout her career. In 1949 she was awarded her first Coty award. She won it again in both 1951 and 1959. The 1959 win coincided with being inducted into the Coty Fashion Hall of Fame. She was a pioneer in the use of cottons and wool for evening and her work with silks is wonderful.
  
• This is the kind of piece that you only find in vintage because they just could not make things at this level anymore. The price would be too cost prohibitive.
• The dress is made from what feels like a cotton/silk gazaar mix that has a beautiful and bright floral design done over the entire dress. 
  
• Onto that are hundreds of hand set, prong set, glass rhinestones in various sizes. Larger ones edge the collar and cuffs and then more are scattered over the entire dress in that same larger size along with smaller sized crystals.
• These catch the light from every angle and it is just incredible to see.
  
• The collar is pointed and sits more on the shoulders and the first button at the front sits slightly low so you get a pretty V at the front. From there it falls in a more sheath feel and slightly widen out as it near the hem. If you wanted more shape you could easily add a belt so it has more of the feel of the runway photo.
• It buttons to close down the front with a series of rhinestone buttons. Each cuff closes with two more rhinestone buttons.
• Fully lined in a nude silk chiffon. All of the rhinestones are hand set. Proper finished button holes.
• The very last rhinestone button at the front is missing and there is some slight grubbiness / darkening to the inside of the collar. Otherwise excellent condition

Sleeves: 24" and are 12" around the upper arm
Slightly dropped shoulders: 17"
Bust: 18" flat across from side seam to side seam
Waist: 17" flat across from side seam to side seam
Hips: 19" flat across from side seam to side seam
Total length: 54" from neck to hem

Modern Sizing Equivalent: SML-MED

Item# DD5099

Reference Photo: Spring 1974 Pauline Trigere.

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