• The twin of this look walked the Fall 2020 runway for Look 29. On the runway it was shown with a addition partial dress worn over it but once it hit the shops it was sold on its own and that added piece was sold separately.
• The dress was made under the creative direction of Alessandro Michele.
• Both Kylie and Rita Ora wore one in 2021 so you can get a great idea of it on the body.
• Vogue noted that "he took cues from “the perfection” of little girls clothes - pinafore dresses, school uniforms - and it seemed from the outfits of those little girls’ minders, nuns to nurses included." You can see that reference in this piece with its pinafore collar and front pleating but in typical Michele fashion he took that as a starting point and then upped the glamour with the added rhinestones and that phenomenal trailing over-skirt.
• One of the things I love best about this is that because it is three pieces you have many styling options with it. You can wear all or part of it and mix and match with other things you already own.
• The dress part of the set is a pretty dusty pink piece made out of a silk organza mix. A silk slip sits under that and I love that that inner slip is opaque enough that you could actually wear it on its own as a slip dress. With the inner slip being completely separate it also allows you to choose how daring you want to wear the dress. Over that is the spectacular overskirt that wraps around the waist and ties at the front.
• The dress has a little lace collar with the house double G logo is worked into the pattern. It blouses over you at the front and comes in at the waist. The waist is cut more generously and then you use the ties on the over-skirt to cinch it in as much as you want. If you are wearing the dress on its own you can leave the waist more loose and easy or add a belt.
• Running all the way down the front of the dress is a series of little pin-tuck pleats and then between those are wider pleats that have been gathered up in a diamond / marquis pattern and held in place by little prong set rhinestones. I love this little bit of added glitz.
• The sleeves are full with horizontally pleated cuffs. An elaborate handkerchief ruffle sits underneath that.
• Attached inside of the front insides of the skirt of the dress is an added panel in the same silk that hangs past the hem an extra 8.5". It is an unusual and pretty detail that is a nod to the aprons of a nurse or nanny. 
• The dress buttons to close down the back. The final button is set 22" above the back hem.
• The over-skirt is phenomenal and takes the dress from something that can be worn in the day or evening into a full on glamorous gown. It is made from a single layer of the same silk organza and is pleated vertically all the way down to its raw cut hem. A band runs around the waist and this extends into ties. You wrap it around you and slip it through the little belt loops around the waist of the dress and tie into place. It swoops out to create a beautiful trailing feel behind you.
  
• The inner acts as the lining and is fully separate from the dress. Little snaps at the shoulders hold it in place once it is on. The dress buttons down the back and then the skirt ties into place over that around the waist. The hem of the skirt is deliberately raw cut. The dress has a more pastel feel in person. All of the pieces appear to have never been worn.
• Tagged a modern Gucci 40
• Excellent condition

Dress
Sleeves: 25" and are 12" around the upper arm
Shoulders: 15"
Bust: 18.5" flat across from side seam to side seam
Waist: 13.5" flat across from side seam to side seam
Hips: open
Bodice: 15" from top of shoulder to waist
Total length: 58" from top of shoulder to longest point of the hem, 50" to the shorter hem

Inner Slip
Bust: 17.5" flat across from side seam to side seam
Waist: 17.5" flat across from side seam to side seam
Hips: to 20" flat across from side seam to side seam
Total length: 49" from top of shoulder to hem

Over-skirt
Waist: adjustable with the ties
Hips: open
Total length: 62" from the waist to the longest points of the hem

Modern Sizing Equivalent: SML-MED

Item# DD5597

Reference Photos/Video: (1-5) Fall 2020 Gucci, Look 29. Model Johana Gavendova.  /  (6) Photo by Bruce Gilden.  /  (7) Kylie Minogue in Gucci, May 2021.  /  (8) Rita Ora in Gucci, February 2021.

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• The twin of this dress in a different fabric was seen on the runway for the Fall 2000 Thierry Mugler collection.
• It was made under the creative direction of Thierry Mugler.
• The fabric is what makes this dress stand out. Mugler's choice of a dusty pink bias cut lame is perfect. It has enough weight so his intended drape down the front hold perfectly when you move.
• The light catches it in different ways as it glides over you so that you shimmer and sparkle from every angle.
• The cut has that nod back to the glamour days of Hollywood that you see in his best pieces.
• The bodice is shaped and formed to hug the bust. It is gathered in at the centre and then drapes outward. Attached along that centre line is a thick and very heavy gold metal chain that creates the strap that wraps up behind the neck.
• Set into each link of the strap is a large square cut glass rhinestone. It becomes like an attached piece of fine jewellry.
• The strap curves around the neck with a clasp at the back.
• The back dips down to reveal bar skin and I love this unexpected Flach when you turn around.
• Below the gathering at the bust is an extra panel of fabric that falls down the centre of the dress to the hem. Around that the dress glides over your waist and hips in an easy to wear and fit way.
• The perfect final touch is a high slit hidden in behind the front draping so that when you walk or sit you get an unexpected flash of leg. 
• The dress is fully lined in a pink silk chiffon. Inside the bust is a full built in pale pink silk satin corset that is shaped and boned. The inner bodice closes with hook and eye and then the dress closes with a hidden set zipper over that. There are two rows of hooks on the inner bodice. Hand finishes. The chain closes with slip loop closure that is very high end. One rhinestone has been replaced at some point with a round rhinestone. It is near the back so you don't see it and it is not very obvious. Please see the photo after the label shot. 
• Tagged a vintage Mugler 38 
• Excellent condition

Bust: 16-17" flat across from side seam to side seam
Waist: 12 -13" flat across from side seam to side seam at the inner corset. The fabric over the inner corset it is loose and easy.
Hips: open
Length: approx 58" from neck to hem and it extends another 3.5" at the back.

Modern Sizing Equivalent: XS-SML

Item# DD5598

Reference Photos/Video: Fall 2000 Thierry Mugler.

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• The twin of this dress walked the runway for the Spring 2017 collection for Look 39.
• It was made under the creative direction of Pierpaolo Piccioli and the print was done in collaboration with Zandra Rhodes.
• Historically, this was an important collection as it was Pierpaolo's first solo show at Valentino. It was also his first collaboration with Zandra Rhodes.
• The dress is beautifully documented on the runway the dress and one was also shot for Vogue that season. I love this show shows you how gorgeous it is once on the body especially since it is a tough one to photo on a dress form without arms.
• The dress is made out of a beautiful lightweight silk chiffon that has a custom Zandra Rhodes print covering the entire dress. The colour is a deep, dusty pink, and the print on it is a mute metallic gold and deep copper paint fuel that is done in her proprietary manner in studio.
• The shoulders are bare with a single ribbon, silk strap running over them. The neckline is heavily gathered and this detail extends down and into each side of the sleeves. The sleeves lace up down their lengths along the top and then are full and easy under that. I love the gathered ruffle that follows the line of lace and extends around the entire neckline. 
• This cut leaves your shoulders bare and also lets a little bit of skin peek out between the laces of the sleeves. The sleeves themselves are a single layer of the silk chiffon so they have a beautiful delicacy to them. 
• The dress skims over the bust and drapes easily over the body to a more generously cut waist. The waist is gathered to pick up on the finish of the neck line and hear you see another ruffle that runs all the way around you.
  
• The waist is cut more generously so that you have a beautiful flow from head to toe. You can see this in all of the various reference photos and how it sits on the body. This cut was to become one of Pierpaolo signatures.
• The skirt flows to the floor from there and it is beautifully full and easy. It has a second silk chiffon layer underneath in a solid version of the same colour so that it is opaque enough to wear. The amount of fabric used through the skirt gives it a ton of movement when you walk and move. 
• The lightness of the silk and the way that it lays over the body allows it to move spectacularly over you and it will pick up the slightest bit of air.
• The dress is fully lined in a matching silk chiffon. It closes with a hidden set back zipper. It appears to have been worn very little if at all.
• Tagged a Valentino 38
• Excellent condition

Sleeves: approximately 11" and they are 12" around the upper arm when the laces are fully tied close. Loosening the laces will give you more room.
Bust: 16-18" flat across from side seam to side seam
Waist: 14-15" flat across from side seam to side seam
Hips: open
Bodice: 17" from top of shoulder to slightly dropped waist
Total length: 60" from top of shoulder to hem

Modern Sizing Equivalent: XS-MED

Item# DD5599

Reference Photos/Video: (1-8) Spring 2017 Valentino, Look 39.  /  (9) Photographed by Hao Zeng for Vogue.

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