1980s Ady Couture Lausanne Black Lace & Sequin Black Dress w Dropped Full Skirt designer-michaele-vollbracht I love Geoffrey Beene's work

I love Geoffrey Beene's work during this time period and this particular dress is just divine

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Maybe even more so as Miuccia always seems to design ahead of the curve

and incredible embroidery work that has been all done by hand

It is the epitome of what he represented - well tailored

1980s Ady Couture Lausanne Black Lace & Sequin Black Dress w Dropped Full Skirt designer-michaele-vollbracht I love Geoffrey Beene's workThis dress was made by hand in the atelier of Ady Couture who was based in Lausanne Switzerland. Ady herself was a couture trained seamstress and headed a team who had full permission of the Haute Couture houses she worked with to make the designs they showed in Paris for clients based in Switzerland and the surrounding areas. She would purchase the couture fabrics from the couture houses along with the patterns and then make the actual dresses in her