Incredible Spring 1990 Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Runway Look 50 Ivory Silk Dress designer-giorgio-sant-angelo This is a stunning inky

This is a stunning inky black silk velvet dress with beautiful detailing

It is extraordinary and a very rare and complete set of his early work for Dior

It is strapless across the bodice and has an inner boned and wire cupped bodice to help keep it in place once it is on the body

It is made out of a combination of a cut velvet floral fabric that has been applied to a printed bias cut brown backdrop

Some of the ends of the feathers have separated a bit on the natural spots it curves but this is just part of aging for a piece like this

Incredible Spring 1990 Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Runway Look 50 Ivory Silk Dress designer-giorgio-sant-angelo This is a stunning inkyThe twin of this dress walked the runway for the Spring 1990 Haute Couture collection. It was made under the creative direction of Yves Saint Laurent. Its twin was shown under a jacket on model Gloria Burgess and we found the original sketch of the dress in my YSL folio. I thought it interesting to see that Gloria was not the original model intended for the dress and that there was a change by Yves as to who wore it on the actual runway and you can