1983/4 Important Ruffled Yves Saint Laurent Set designer-geoffrey-beene exuberantly eighties piece by Nina

exuberantly eighties piece by Nina Ricci

The inner dress is actually a stretch bandage dress so clings to every curve like a glove

This leaves the upper back bare and sexy

The beads - for lack of a better word - are insanely huge and because many of them are suspended on little tube beaded loops it moves and makes sounds as they click together - it is like wearing a full piece of jewellery on your upper body

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