Rare Early 1980s Norma Kamali Sleeping Bag Coat designer-balmain A bandeau halter with detachable

A bandeau halter with detachable straps tops the pencil cut skirt and is cut so you can wear it strapless or as a halter

highly collectible 1920s cut silk devore shawl is a masterpiece and really a work of art and has the added decadence of multi colored silk fringing giving it a ombre effect - I have never seen this before and it is amazing

The skirt sweeps the floor and literally has yards and yard of tulle that make it up

At the time this was cutting edge fabric and quite innovative

Rare Early 1980s Norma Kamali Sleeping Bag Coat designer-balmain A bandeau halter with detachableAs the legend goes, the sleeping bag coat was invented by Norma Kamali after a camping trip. From an interview with the NYTimes: "After splitting with her husband, Mohammed (Eddie) Kamali, in the mid 1970s, she took to camping in the woods with a boyfriend. It was cold, she recalled, and I was always getting up at night to go to the bathroom. On one particularly nippy night, she threw on her sleeping bag and sprinted for the bush. As I was running,