1920s or 1930s Handmade Assuit & Velvet Tie Front Flapper Jacket designer-balenciaga He once joked that "if

He once joked that "if there were a Nobel Prize for creations in taffeta

British Vogue to christen him “The Aladdin of Couture” and in 1974 he told Vogue “You can use marvelous fabrics

It is suspended by three piped silk straps that are caught up into braids at the top of each shoulder

The Alexander McQueen website said of that collection:

Shoulders: 14" from shoulder seam to shoulder seam

1920s or 1930s Handmade Assuit & Velvet Tie Front Flapper Jacket designer-balenciaga He once joked that "ifThis is a wonderful little jacket made from a combination of assuit and black velvet. The technique used to make the assuit part of the jacket has been done for a very long time and is still done today but not to the same degree and quality of the pieces done in the twenties. I suspect that this was assembled sometime in the late 1920s or early thirties from an earlier assuit shawl this was often done to get more life out of earlier pieces. It is cut