Fall 1977 Pierre Balmain Haute Couture Lesage Beaded Velvet Dress designer-prada Item# DS098

Item# DS098

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Under the cape is a flat slip pocket just big enough for a something flat and folded

The bodice is amazing - it is a draped and gathered Maid Marion-eque affair but with a plunge to the empire waist that is held in place by those fabulous ties

Fall 1977 Pierre Balmain Haute Couture Lesage Beaded Velvet Dress designer-prada Item# DS098This wonderful gown is proper, numbered Haute Couture deigned by Pierre Balmain and made by hand on the Paris atelier. It also has the additional provenance of being worn by Tracee Ellis Ross to the SAG_AFTRA Foundation Patron of the Artists Awards in November of 2017. The cut is sublimely simple and allows the effect of those wonderful sleeves to take center stage. It is made out of a jet black, rich velvet that seems to absorb the light and give it