Incredible Fall 1993 Yves Saint Laurent Runway Black Silk Chiffon Dress W Ruffle Full Sleeves designer-lanvin He won the Coty Award

He won the Coty Award in 1968 and his work is on par with couture

Length: 51" from top of dress to hem

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It is a fantastical combination of a bright orange-coral silk with amazing feather detailing at the cuffs and circling the entire hem

In the Vogue review of the Fall 2009 collection they noted that Karl Lagerfeld titled the Fall 2009 collection Belle Brummell (inspired by Beau Brummell)

Incredible Fall 1993 Yves Saint Laurent Runway Black Silk Chiffon Dress W Ruffle Full Sleeves designer-lanvin He won the Coty AwardThis is an interesting dress because Yves used the same pink feather styling that he did in this collection for a longer but very similar Haute Couture version that season. On the runway this dress was styled with a pink feather collar and then produced without. From a practical stand point it does make it far easier to get multiple wears out of it. It otherwise is identical to the runway version in design. Yves was a designer who mixed and matched