1971 Thea Porter Brocaded Cotton Gauze & Lace Flounce Dress designer-antony-price The fall 2006 Miu Miu

The fall 2006 Miu Miu show was received with accolades by the fashion crowd and it was really this particular collection that made Miu Miu into one of the major players

It skims past the waist and over the hips where it opens into a fuller skirt that still manages to seem sleek and sluptural

slip on a pair of sandals  or heels and you are ready to go

’ was acclaimed for representing the same functionality as a man’s suit

or nude pink tint mixes with black and silver

1971 Thea Porter Brocaded Cotton Gauze & Lace Flounce Dress designer-antony-price The fall 2006 Miu MiuThe label on this Thea Porter dress narrows down the dating process for us as it was only produced between October 1971 March 1972. To verify the exact date, I asked Laura McLaws Helms, the author of the book "Thea Porter, Bohemian Chic" and she verified for me that it was indeed from the 1971 collection. It is a beautiful example of Thea's work with a black cotton gauze brocade that has red and black diamond medallions scattered over its surface. The