Runway Spring 1994 Balmain by Oscar de La Renta Haute Couture Baby Blue Corset Dress designer-nat-kaplan Interior waist stay made of

Interior waist stay made of grosgrain ribbon that closes with hook & eye

It falls from under the bodice and is pretty amazing in its own right

The structure is all there

Inside the dress has light boning through the bodice to give you some support

The skirt is short and sexy and the wrapped cut allows for a mile of leg

Runway Spring 1994 Balmain by Oscar de La Renta Haute Couture Baby Blue Corset Dress designer-nat-kaplan Interior waist stay made ofIn 1993 Oscar de la Renta took over as Creative Director at Balmain where he designed the Haute Couture collections until 2002. The house had been floundering at that point and he had a huge impact on the reviving the sales of the couture pieces, mainly by catering to private clients, much like Balmain had originally. It is extraordinary to think that Oscar never produced a Haute Couture line under his own label and these few short years at Balmain