Oscar de la Renta, custom evening coat, 2012, silk taffeta. Worn by Annette de la Renta. Collection shown in Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style, courtesy of SCAD.
Savannah College of Art and Design
I have yet to stumble across a Mme Grès design that I do not like. This is a late #1960s ensemble that eschews the pleats and instead focuses on geometry, on gaps that conceal and reveal in blocks of colour @metmuseum#FashionHistory
#Ootd is this 1960 embroidered satin evening gown by Gaby Espana. Gaby Young-Mackinnon was a British model who worked with designers, like Dior, before moving to Mallorca and setting up her own couture house. Many celebrities visited the island to buy her designs. #fashionhistory
It is a happy heavenly birthday to Charles James today, born July 18 in 1906. The construction of his garments was masterful, mid century structure that became so distinctive. This is a luscious late #1940s red velvet @metmuseum#FashionHistory
If you are going to have a floral dress then you may as well go all out & turn yourself into a bloom of chiffon, bursting forth in fragile petals. Augustabernard understood the assignment here in her 1930s evening gown of giant purple flowers against crisp white @TheBowesMuseum