Easy to Wear Resort 2009 Lanvin by Alber Elbaz Look 4 Black Silk Strapless Dress designer-ted-lapidus This one has a detail

This one has a detail I have not seen on another Pucci dress like this - on each side of the skirt the bottom edging has been carried up 10" and 3 fabric covered buttons sit on either side

The chiffon used feels like a synthetic but a good one

The majority of work is all done by hand and it would have taken many hours of work to create this dress in this way

This classic Yves Saint Laurent piece touches on his love of incorporating a touch of menswear into his designs

Easy to Wear Resort 2009 Lanvin by Alber Elbaz Look 4 Black Silk Strapless Dress designer-ted-lapidus This one has a detailThe twin of this dress in pink was shown as Look 4 for the 2009 Resort collection. In their review Vogue said that "For his joyful Resort collection for Lanvin, Alber Elbaz was thinking not only of the "idea of vacation" but also of the "perfect American look of the fiftiesbut made in the wrong way." I love that and that expresses to me so much how his mind worked. It is just one of those dresses that is completely easy to wear and still feels