Amazing Fall 2002 Christian Dior by John Galliano Runway Look 32 Bias Cut Silk Velvet Devore Backless Dress Shop By Vintage Designer Madeleine de Rauch founded her

Madeleine de Rauch founded her self-named couturier house in 1932

September 1975

The bodice is unlined and the skirt is fully lined in a black silk organza

One shoulder has looping panels of silk chiffon that you just fall over your shoulder

Reference photo of Zandra Rhodes with a model from Life Magazine

Amazing Fall 2002 Christian Dior by John Galliano Runway Look 32 Bias Cut Silk Velvet Devore Backless Dress Shop By Vintage Designer Madeleine de Rauch founded herThis is the twin of the dress shown on the Christian Dior Fall 2002 runway for Look 32. It is an incredibly cut dress and the fabric choice is equally impressive. At the time Vogue commented that: "this fall collection is almost classic in its Dior isms containing all the patterns, symbols and accessories on which Galliano has re built the house foundations. That means ethnic color and print, love of the eighteenth century, an obsession with bias cut