1980-82 Ruffled Halston Spiral Dress in Royal Blue Silk designer-karl-lagerfeld Bob Mackie and Hubert de

Bob Mackie and Hubert de Givenchy

Each of the flowers has a slight puff appearance and its not until you look underneath that you realize that those blue flowers are each backed with extra fabric so they have a slight "lift" effect from the front

silk crepe chiffon skirt and top set

It manages to be sexy and yet feel a little bit innocent at the same time

It closes low at the front and the seaming is predictive of what would go on to become a signature

1980-82 Ruffled Halston Spiral Dress in Royal Blue Silk designer-karl-lagerfeld Bob Mackie and Hubert deFor the Resort 1980 show Halston debuted the ruffle. In the book "Halston, An American Original" It is noted that " this was somewhat of a departure for him, but one that offered him an engineering challenge". Others were doing the ruffle and Halston was "determined to find a way to do it better". By 1980 ruffles were shown in their full glory and WWD even nicknamed Halston "Mr. Ruffle". Ruffles were everywhere between that collection and 1982 and