Incredible Spring 1977 Jean Patou by Angelo Tarlazzi Plunging Bronze Silk Lame Metallic Pleat Dress designer-karl-lagerfeld A second bow sits at

A second bow sits at the bottom of the band so that you are wrapped in silk and finished up with those pretty and feminine touches Under there the skirt falls to the floor with in an expansive amount of fabric

Another layer of that same flat pleat detail sits at the hem and a few inches about the hem as ell

Sleeves: approx 19" long

Howard Greer started his career working for the famed Lucile

This dress is based on lingerie and has the same feel a couture piece of lingerie would have

Incredible Spring 1977 Jean Patou by Angelo Tarlazzi Plunging Bronze Silk Lame Metallic Pleat Dress designer-karl-lagerfeld A second bow sits atAfter the premature death of Jean Patou in 1936, his sister took over the house and eventually had other designers head the atelier. On the Jean Patou site the history of the houses designers is clearly laid out; 'Marc Bohan, born in 1926, made his debut with Jean Patou at the age of 18. He left the couture house to better find himself as the artistic director. He kept the legend alive from 1954 to 1957. He moved on to serve as the head of creation at