Fall 1984 Givenchy by Hubert de Givenchy Haute Couture Runway Sample Strapless Blue Bodice Dress designer-emma-domb The subtlety of the seams

The subtlety of the seams is fabulous in person

It has a high neckline with a† huge exaggerated and point collar

Jacqueline Kennedy wore Connolly for her official White House portrait and Connolly was a particular favorite of Carmen Snow

Though It is of course those two huge rings of dyed black fox fur that ring each shoulder and down and around the sleeve right to the waist where all the drama is created

Each sleeve is cut so that it widens as it reaches its hem and then it is edged in a wide border of silk ribbon and split up one side

Fall 1984 Givenchy by Hubert de Givenchy Haute Couture Runway Sample Strapless Blue Bodice Dress designer-emma-domb The subtlety of the seamsThe Shrimpton Couture Archives This is a spectacular piece of true Haute Couture the dates to the Fall 1984 Givenchy collection and it is the actual sample dress that walked the runway that day. It was made under the creative direction of Hubert de Givenchy The dress would have been completely made by hand in the Paris atelier. I love that the reference photos from the runway lets you see how perfectly this will fit once on the body. Having a piece of