c1980 Red Silk Yves Saint Laurent Attr Wrap Top & Skirt designer-fred-perlberg It closes with a series

It closes with a series of domed black buttons on the back of the neck

They were featured in the ad campaign that year and were sold out worldwide when they were released and wait-listed everywhere

and yet once on the body it lies and drapes in a way that it is balanced and not at all unwieldy

Length: 49" from top of straps to hem

This gives the dress a fabulous quality as the light plays on the two textures

c1980 Red Silk Yves Saint Laurent Attr Wrap Top & Skirt designer-fred-perlberg It closes with a seriesThis is an important and exceptional silk taffeta, wrap top and full length skirt with amazing and dramatic puffed sleeves. This Rive Gauche version would have been based on that Haute Couture gowns from the late seventies collection. It has no YSL label any longer but is clearly his work and bears the label of the Paris Department store W. Beresford on Rue St Honore. I have dated this to the 1980s collection based on the set worn by Iman (see