1960s Christian Dior Demi-Couture Textured Ivory Silk A-Line Dress & Matching Crop Jacket Lame & Metallics YSL's longtime muse-turned-fellow designer

YSL's longtime muse-turned-fellow designer

There may be the occasional bead or sequin missing but all appear to be present

The cut of the skirt is kept to very simple lines with a banded waist for shape and then it falls in a simple column of silk to the floor

Reference Photos: Fall 1989 Bob Mackie Runway

and throughout there is the unflagging professional perfection that explains

1960s Christian Dior Demi-Couture Textured Ivory Silk A-Line Dress & Matching Crop Jacket Lame & Metallics YSL's longtime muse-turned-fellow designerThis is an incredible dress with its matching crop jacket that lands somewhere in that time period between the end of Christian's reign, Yves Saint Laurent's time there, and Marc Bohan's appointment as the head of the Dior atelier. Just based on the style of it I would guess that it is early in Marc Bohan's era but regardless of under whose directorship it falls it is a beautiful and early example of the work being produced by Christian Dior in this