1980s Bellville Sassoon Appliqued Bodice & Princess Skirted Tulle Dress designer-thea-porter It is very femme fatale

It is very femme fatale and one can easily image this stomping down the runway in Thierry's vision of women who combined strength

The colors are stunning and the palette she used for it are vibrant and bright

I believe it is also an earlier piece and shows that contrast between the time when he really started to use pattern head to toe and slightly before that when more solid pieces were worked in

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I feel like so many of the modern pieces I am seeing on the runway could have very well been inspired by this exact dress too

1980s Bellville Sassoon Appliqued Bodice & Princess Skirted Tulle Dress designer-thea-porter It is very femme fataleThe Bellville Sassoon label was founded in 1953 by Belinda Bellville but did not officially take on the Bellville Sassoon label until 1970 when David Sassoon, who had been with the company since 1958, took over most of the designing. In 1987, Irish designer Lorcan Mullany joined the company and took over designing and the brands labels changed to reflect this. The Sassoon label became internationally known when Princess Diana began wearing pieces