Documented 1957 Christian Dior Haute Couture Silk Monkey Print Coat designer-stavropoulos Hand constructed matching gold hook

Hand constructed matching gold hook closure and tail

Item# D419

Really a fantastic coat and highly collectible - you definitely do not come by a fifties coat in this kind of color every day

Fully lined in a pale pink silky rayon and closes with a back painted metal zipper

The construction of this set is impeccable

Documented 1957 Christian Dior Haute Couture Silk Monkey Print Coat designer-stavropoulos Hand constructed matching gold hookDior's final collection for the house in the Fall of 1957 was the "Ligne Fuseau" or Spindle Line and I am extremely pleased to present this extremely well documented and important coat from the collection. The collection notes said of the presentation: "The new silhouette for the day can so to speak be inscribed within two brackets ( ) of the spindle line. Encased between these two curves, this line owes its elegance above all to its lengthening