c1980 Red Silk Yves Saint Laurent Attr Wrap Top & Skirt designer-fred-perlberg to the elbow

to the elbow

Fully lined in a pale lavender tissue silk that acts as the inner silk lining of the pink layer under the net exterior

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

Hand finished and hand applied sequins and beads

c1980 Red Silk Yves Saint Laurent Attr Wrap Top & Skirt designer-fred-perlberg to the elbowThis 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