Important Spring 1993 Yves Saint Laurent Runway Draped Neckline Panne Velvet Leopard Print Dress designer-marni The waist nips in and

The waist nips in and the skirt is cut slightly slimmer at the front and then very full at the back

I love the little rounded Peter Pan collar and the to the elbow sleeves

It is a simple and elegant necklace that has a large gold tone pendant which apparently is gold plating

Barbara Bach was photoed in a similar one for the cover of the Sunday Telegraph in 1977 and that photo has become an iconic representation of the era

Reference Photos: (1-3) Fall 2021 Alaia Presentation

Important Spring 1993 Yves Saint Laurent Runway Draped Neckline Panne Velvet Leopard Print Dress designer-marni The waist nips in andYves showed the twin of this dress on the Spring 1993 runway AND during his Haute Couture presentation for the Fall 1992 collection. On both runways this dress was styled with a belt but otherwise looks identical to this version. Yves was a designer who mixed and matched ideas from couture to ready to wear with ease. More so than many other designers. Sometimes the details were exact copies like this one is, with the difference being that one would