1993 Christian Dior Purple Taffeta Silk Ruffled Cape vintage-evening-dress a high-end London boutique that

a high-end London boutique that was located on the famous Kings Road in Chelsea and made bespoke designs

Our model (5ft 4in / 163cm) is a UK 6-8 or US 2-4 and this dress was long on her and roomy in the bust

This is a really wearable example from the late 1960s

“Elbaz painted a convincing portrait of a sophisticated adventuress

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1993 Christian Dior Purple Taffeta Silk Ruffled Cape vintage-evening-dress a high-end London boutique thatThis decadent purple cape was designed by Gianfranco Ferr as part of Christian Diors Fall 1993 collection. Supermodel Veronica Webb walked the runway wearing a shirt made of the same fabric, and many models wore capes throughout the show. There is a YouTube video of this collection and you can just see this cape in the corner of the screen being modelled in the background. Alas, there is not enough footage to attach here but you can see the pink