Iconic Fall 1982 Ady Couture Lausanne for Yves Saint Laurent Silk Leopard Print Dress w Draped Panel designer-frank-usher It closes with a gold

It closes with a gold frame and clasp and has gorgeous gold chains for the handles and more gold is picked up on the bottom with the little notched gold feet

and a long fluid skirt

The very innermost layer is a silk crepe that is unlined but with finished inner seams and ribbon edged hem

Sleeves: approx 21" from natural shoulder

Skirt Length: 25" from waist seam to the bottom of the hem

Iconic Fall 1982 Ady Couture Lausanne for Yves Saint Laurent Silk Leopard Print Dress w Draped Panel designer-frank-usher It closes with a goldThis dress was made by hand in the atelier of Ady Couture who was based in Lausanne Switzerland. Ady herself was a couture trained seamstress and headed a team who had full permission of the Haute Couture houses she worked with to make the designs they showed in Paris for clients based in Switzerland and the surrounding areas. She would purchase the couture fabrics from the couture houses along with the patterns and then make the actual dresses in her