Mid 1950s Christian Dior London Demi-Couture Raspberry Printed Silk Coat & Dress Set designer-sarmi Item# D409

Item# D409

The skirt is bias cut and made form a silky rayon on a deep blue

gives the waist definition and acts as a design element down the center front of the skirt

The skirt feels like a sarong in style and the silk is placed and warped over the hips

not cut out of a piece of cloth - in other words it was made deliberately to be this shape as it was meticulously hand made stitch by stitch

Mid 1950s Christian Dior London Demi-Couture Raspberry Printed Silk Coat & Dress Set designer-sarmi Item# D409This dress and coat set is extraordinary. After much research I have dated it to the mid fifties while Christian Dior still presided over the house. You can see a striking similarity to the color and print in the examples shown here from the Haute Couture collections between 1954 and 1956. This is the Christian Dior London label and is considered to be demi couture from this time period of Dior's history and this set in particular is numbered. This