c1980 Red Silk Yves Saint Laurent Attr Wrap Top & Skirt designer-fred-perlberg Fully lined in a pale

Fully lined in a pale lavender tissue silk that acts as the inner silk lining of the pink layer under the net exterior

At the waist is set orange satin bands that meet at the front in a large flat bow above a zipper closure

Hand finished and hand applied sequins and beads

This gives the dress a fabulous quality as the light plays on the two textures

c1980 Red Silk Yves Saint Laurent Attr Wrap Top & Skirt designer-fred-perlberg Fully lined in a paleThis is an important and exceptional silk taffeta, wrap top and full length skirt with amazing and dramatic puffed sleeves. This Rive Gauche version would have been based on that Haute Couture gowns from the late seventies collection. It has no YSL label any longer but is clearly his work and bears the label of the Paris Department store W. Beresford on Rue St Honore. I have dated this to the 1980s collection based on the set worn by Iman (see