Sleek 1990s Valentino Classic Red Dress w Slit Front Detail & Tiered Ruffled Hem designer-gucci It has the added provenance

It has the added provenance of being the twin to the one featured in the ad campaign for 1970

Each wrist zips to close and the fabric is gathered and ruched around these closures

Please note the following - the inner silk organza of the dress has some small tears and parts of it are missing through the upper bodice

The gown is constructed of yards and yards of luxurious thick silk custom screened with a python design

custom made buttons and a loop

Sleek 1990s Valentino Classic Red Dress w Slit Front Detail & Tiered Ruffled Hem designer-gucci It has the added provenanceValentino knows how to cut a dress to perfectly flatter a woman's body. Few designers can come close to the techniques he perfected over the decades of his prolific career. This is a wonderful example of his work from the turn of the 1990s. I love that it has been done in his classic crisp true Valentino red. This is a colour that he perfected to be flattering on almost any skin tone. The dress has that perfect minimalist feel to it that the nineties