1968 Giorgio Sant'Angelo Purple Applique Velvet Dress w Wood Bead Fringe designer-yves-saint-laurent light wool jersey and simply

light wool jersey and simply slips on and you hook it into place at the waist

The owner of this is motivated to sell and it is a brand new price now - about 1/2 of what it was previously

The inner dress is as simple sheath with a low plunging bodice made of a double layer of the fabric and is cut with a deep plunge

Hand finished inside and monogrammed "Stella Sharp" (which in our opinion is a pretty kick ass name)

The other cream Haite Couture dress from that same collection uses the same front button treatment but on the top whereas here it was done on the bottom portion of the dress

1968 Giorgio Sant'Angelo Purple Applique Velvet Dress w Wood Bead Fringe designer-yves-saint-laurent light wool jersey and simplyWhen doing the research to date this lovely dress, I found two references to pieces where Sant'Angelo used the same wood bead fringe that this dress has to finish an edging. One on a jacket photoed on Verushka for Vogue and the other edging a vest that is held in the permanent archives of the Metropolitan Museum. Both were dated to 1968. I found no other images where he used that wood fringing so am confident that this was something particular to that