Exquisite 1970s Mary McFadden Back & Front Plunging Mint Green Pleated Dress designer-roberto-cavalli Yves designed these "poetic taffeta

Yves designed these "poetic taffeta gowns in what might be termed a Proustian vein" is what the book states

This then forms a shaped bodice that runs down past the waist and molds over the top of the hips

This one is slightly older as it has Elasthan as one of its ingredients and that fiber was invented in 1958

The level of work in this piece would only be found in the highest couture of today

Exquisite 1970s Mary McFadden Back & Front Plunging Mint Green Pleated Dress designer-roberto-cavalli Yves designed these "poetic taffetaMary McFadden patented her Fortuny inspired pleating technique just a couple of years after launching her label in 1973. By the eighties she had many licensing agreements and her dresses were being made on a larger scale. Earlier pieces like this one had much of the work in them finished by hand and were done in house. She called her pleated fabric 'marii' after her own name. She went around the world to source the fabric she wanted and her pieces