1968 Bill Blass Museum Documented Brown Velvet & Silver Thread Coat designer-halston Bust: open with no true

Bust: open with no true side seams through the bust area

Note that the suit photos as black but is a deep navy in person

Ad campaign photo as seen in L'officiel de la mode n°563-564

The jacket is adorable with an attached flat bow just under the bust and a second one on the belt

1968 Bill Blass Museum Documented Brown Velvet & Silver Thread Coat designer-halston Bust: open with no trueBill Blass became the head designer at Maurice Rentner in 1959 and soon after that his name started to appear on the labels. In 1970 he bought out the Maurice Rentner label and re launched it under his own name. These Bill Blass for Maurice Rentner pieces, are some of his earliest and you will find many of them, like the twin of this coat, in museum collections throughout the world. Blass was arguably one of the most famous of all the American