Iconic Fall 1980 Possible Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Dress Patchwork & Velvet Dress 1920s and Antique Thea was known to hunt

Thea was known to hunt antique stores and markets in far off places around the globe and then incorporate and use what she found in her designs and you can feel that influence with the array of fabrics used here

By 1960 he was doing mainly private work and within a few years established a small salon on the Left Bank where he continued designing privately

This inner dress is no longer perfect all along where it closes underneath the back panel but this cannot be seen at all once it is on

At Burberry

It has the most wonderful open row of sweet black ribbon bows that seemingly catch the two sides of lace together while allowing the nude silk lining to peep through

Iconic Fall 1980 Possible Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Dress Patchwork & Velvet Dress 1920s and Antique Thea was known to huntI am now on the second batch of very interesting pieces that are coming from a client whose aunt had most of her clothes made. This dress was most likely made by in the atelier of Ady Couture who was based in Lausanne Switzerland. Ady herself was a couture trained seamstress and headed a team who had full permission of the Haute Couture houses she worked with to make the designs they showed in Paris for clients based in Switzerland and the surrounding