Fall 1985 Unlabeled Ady Couture for YSL Black Silk Hip Swag Dress w Pink Bow Print designer-tina-lesser The interior corset and the

The interior corset and the exterior layer each close with a hidden & hand set painted metal zipper

This dress is fitted and has lots of lovely details you just don't find in modern versions

The label is her early lace label

I am very pleased to have found not only the date of the collection that this skirt is from but the dramatic video clip showing the runway footage of the piece in action as it was twirled and show to its greatest advantage on the runway

There is the slightest evidence of "overpressing" to the seams but nothing that detracts from the suit overall

Fall 1985 Unlabeled Ady Couture for YSL Black Silk Hip Swag Dress w Pink Bow Print designer-tina-lesser The interior corset and theThis 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