c1907-1920 Mariano Fortuny Pleated Muted Raspberry Silk Gown designer-adele-simpson It is very Vivienne Westwood

It is very Vivienne Westwood

The fabric used for this killer clutch was taken from 1960s maxi dress

The scarf is a long rectangle and the butterfly there sits half on one side and half on the opposite

One small area of missing beads on one row on the left front shoulder

c1907-1920 Mariano Fortuny Pleated Muted Raspberry Silk Gown designer-adele-simpson It is very Vivienne WestwoodSimilar Fortuny gowns are held in museums and private collections world wide and they are becoming increasingly hard to find. A version in green is a part of the permanent collection at The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (pictured). The description of that gown is so wonderful I thought I would share it with you here verbatim: "Mariano Fortuny created a number of variations of his pleated silk gowns. In this model, he combined