Prettiest Fall 2006 Chloe Ivory Dress Silk Chiffon Strapless Dress w Sash Waist Detail designer-mary-katrantzou The silk metallic brocade fabric

The silk metallic brocade fabric is amazing - gold threads mix with chocolates and a deep red coral creating whose different finish threads create different textures and weaves so you get a subtle 3D effect and the raised bits become another dimension to the design

Underneath the skirt is a built-in ruffled black silk net underskirt and when you move or sit you see just a peek of the ruffle around the inner hem

The chiffon falls over an inner stretch jersey skirt so it is very comfortable to wear

The entire bodice has been hand painted and you can actually feel and see the paint on top of the silk

The waist nips in and then the skirt flows to the ground widening out from the hips so that it has quite a bit of volume to it

Prettiest Fall 2006 Chloe Ivory Dress Silk Chiffon Strapless Dress w Sash Waist Detail designer-mary-katrantzou The silk metallic brocade fabricThis is a very very pretty little dress from the Fall 2006 Chloe collection The dress is strapless and gathered across the bodice in a series of soft gathers that wrap around to the back. Inside there is light boning and structure to hold the dress around you. The waist nips in under that and gathers extend slightly past that just above the top of the hip. Some of the chiffon has been gathered along one side of the waist and then a wide deeper ivory