Exquisite 1970s Mary McFadden Back & Front Plunging Mint Green Pleated Dress designer-roberto-cavalli Length: 23" from mid back

Length: 23" from mid back at the neck to hem

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

The skirt falls in a simple pencil like shape with just a touch of volume created by the way it is set into the top part

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

Exquisite 1970s Mary McFadden Back & Front Plunging Mint Green Pleated Dress designer-roberto-cavalli Length: 23" from mid backMary 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