Iconic Fall 1980 Possible Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Dress Patchwork & Velvet Dress 1920s and Antique The bias cut and soft

The bias cut and soft floating feel of the chiffon are used to create beautiful movement through the skirt when you move

This inner dress is no longer perfect all along where it closes underneath the back panel but this cannot be seen at all once it is on

†The slip is silk charmeuse twenties with ribbon embroidery -included as bonus but not original to the dress

By 1960 he was doing mainly private work and within a few years established a small salon on the Left Bank where he continued designing privately

Total length: 23" from waist to hem with the back "tail" extending another 1"

Iconic Fall 1980 Possible Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Dress Patchwork & Velvet Dress 1920s and Antique The bias cut and softI am now on the second batch of very interesting pieces that are coming from a client whose aunt had most of her clothes made. This dress was most likely made by 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