Late 1970s Ossie Clark White Jersey w Silver & Bronze Sequin Halter Dress w Matching Jacket designer-john-galliano The fabric is a fine

The fabric is a fine silk taffeta and that choice of fabric helps to give it the wonderful full skirt shape that you see

Over the course of his time at Valentino he did several variations of these dresses and each is beautiful

and other variations in this print

That makes the more special pieces like this a little more significant and collectable in terms of the history of the label

They are all applied one by one by hand

Late 1970s Ossie Clark White Jersey w Silver & Bronze Sequin Halter Dress w Matching Jacket designer-john-galliano The fabric is a fineThe label on this dress tells us that it is from the late 1970s. At this point Ossie's career he was just doing the occasional dress for a private client. Dresses with this particular label are not as easily found since they were mostly one of a kind pieces made for clients. It is from a fascinating little bit of his history. It is a set of a halter dress combined with a full and open jacket. Both pieces are made out of a white bias cut jersey that