1979 Zandra Rhodes Water Circles Dress designer-oscar-de-la-renta This dress is clearly from

This dress is clearly from that first collection and those very first prints designed by Rhodes

Modern Sizing Equivalent: XS

Modern Sizing Equivalent: XS- SM

It is immaculately made as one would expect and the cut is generous and easy to wear

1979 Zandra Rhodes Water Circles Dress designer-oscar-de-la-renta This dress is clearly fromIn 1979 Zandra traveled to China and as inspired by what she found there. One of the fist designs she created form that trip were what she dubbed the "Chinese Water Circle" and the "Chinese Balls" patterns. Both of which are hand painted on red silk chiffon on this amazing dress. In the book The Art of Zandra Rhodes, she says, "To me China had purity and strength The strongest influences upon my Chinese prints were first, the stone carvings of water