c.1953 Christian Dior Couture Silver & Sequin Fantasy Gown designer-oleg-cassini adding a little bit of

adding a little bit of visual interest to the black knit

A soft pleat has been worked into each hip and these gently open to give the volume the skirt has

small clear seed beads and the geometric zig zags created with silver tube beads

with a full skirt that flows to the floor and is perhaps a touch fuller then how it photoed

c.1953 Christian Dior Couture Silver & Sequin Fantasy Gown designer-oleg-cassini adding a little bit ofA similar gown from the Haute Couture collection of 1953 54 is held at The Met and we have included the photos below. You can see the similarity on line and cut. This version is perhaps slightly less dramatic in its fullness and skirting but equals that gown with its customized, hand painted fabric with its extensive sequin work. Just before listing this I had the great pleasure of having the Assistant Director from the Dior archives in Paris visit my