Fall 1985 Valentino Runway Felted Wool & Velvet Trim Over-sized Coat w Huge Rose Print Coat designer-josefa the New York Metropolitan Museum

the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre Museum

gold and blue

She was the designer behind both Grace Kelly & Elizabeth Taylor's wedding dresses and dresses both in real life and on film as well

it was an instant must have on everyone's wish list and the coat instantly sold out worldwide

Fall 1985 Valentino Runway Felted Wool & Velvet Trim Over-sized Coat w Huge Rose Print Coat designer-josefa the New York Metropolitan MuseumThis is a beautiful example of Valentino's work that he was doing during the 1980s for his ready to wear boutique label. I have had the dress that matches this coat in the shop a very long time ago and was very pleased to find the coat after all these years. A couple of versions of it walked the runway that season and they were captured in runway shots where the models are decadently dragging the coats behind them in that very eighties runway kind of