1998 Balmain by Oscar de la Renta Haute Couture Striped Silk Evening Coat Dress & Pant Set designer-bonnie-cashin Click here to see the

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rounded ends - you can style this a zillion ways

open weave design with simple straps that curve over the shoulders

Photo by Henry Clarke

This buttons at the neck and then flows down and around you

1998 Balmain by Oscar de la Renta Haute Couture Striped Silk Evening Coat Dress & Pant Set designer-bonnie-cashin Click here to see theIn 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. The runway photo that we found shows the dress layered over a printed pant but all of the subsequent references of it match the set to