Fabulous 2002 Chanel Cruise Collection Stretch Jersey & Draped Silk Chiffon Midnight Blue Dress designer-donald-brooks Love this beautiful printed silk

Love this beautiful printed silk blouse by Yves Saint Laurent

It is so bright and cheerful and absolutely the perfect red to flatter most skin tones

Item# DD2385

It is by McQueen from a season or two ago and sold out worldwide

Little horizontal rows of ribbon are interspersed with beads to create that pretty effect

Fabulous 2002 Chanel Cruise Collection Stretch Jersey & Draped Silk Chiffon Midnight Blue Dress designer-donald-brooks Love this beautiful printed silkThe Chanel Cruise collections have an interesting history. Gabrielle Chanel actually sailed and her love of the sport led to her inception of a 'cruise' collection in the 1920s. She was not the first to come up with this concept but hers were among the first to show a complete collection in a fully fledged show. They eventually fell off in popularity and it was not until Karl Lagerfeld took over Chanel that the cruise collections started again. I have