Spring 1982 Unlabeled Givenchy One Shoulder Purple Silk Dress designer-maggy-rouff The collar is gathered and

The collar is gathered and padded with a ruffled top so it stands up and frames the neck and face

The dress is amazing and a classic Yves Saint Laurent cut and silhouette from this time period

Earlier Pucci pieces often combined his print with panels of solids and he liked to play with the concept of using more then one color panel

The secondary Garfinkel's department store label in the bodice is the appropriate version of their label prior to their closure and helps to date it as this time period

I adore the flat silver grey piping used to highlight the design

Spring 1982 Unlabeled Givenchy One Shoulder Purple Silk Dress designer-maggy-rouff The collar is gathered andThis wonderful Givenchy comes to me from its original owner who unfortunately removed the label from it. The placement of the label itched when she wore it and having a label in the dress did not mean anything of significance during this time period so out it went. A version of the dress was heavily photoed on Audrey Hepburn that year and another version also appeared in Vogue. My client chose to purchase it in the version made out of a sold colored