Iconic Fall 1980 Possible Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Dress Patchwork & Velvet Dress 1920s and Antique Total length: 23" from waist

Total length: 23" from waist to hem with the back "tail" extending another 1"

This inner dress is no longer perfect all along where it closes underneath the back panel but this cannot be seen at all once it is on

even including those fabulous off-shoulder straps

By 1960 he was doing mainly private work and within a few years established a small salon on the Left Bank where he continued designing privately

Iconic Fall 1980 Possible Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Dress Patchwork & Velvet Dress 1920s and Antique Total length: 23" from waistI am now on the second batch of very interesting pieces that are coming from a client whose aunt had most of her clothes made. This dress was most likely made by in the atelier of Ady Couture who was based in Lausanne Switzerland. Ady herself was a couture trained seamstress and headed a team who had full permission of the Haute Couture houses she worked with to make the designs they showed in Paris for clients based in Switzerland and the surrounding