Spring 1978 Unlabeled Christian Dior Haute Couture Silk Dress w Floral Belt designer-mary-quant You can do flats and

You can do flats and a tote for a casual summer day or make it full out glamorous for evening with a simple switch of shoes

It is lightly boned through the bodice

This one (and the other found with it) was made by hand applying sequin after sequin on a cotton cording - gold under the gold and black under the black - and then forming and stitching the resulting bands of sequins into the cap as you see it

By laying each sequin flat and side by side it allows the light to catch the fabric in the most wonderful of ways

Spring 1978 Unlabeled Christian Dior Haute Couture Silk Dress w Floral Belt designer-mary-quant You can do flats andOn June 15, 1978 Lisa Najeeb Halaby wed King Hussein wed and she became the Queen of Jordan. She chose a Christian Dior gown, designed by Marc Bohan, for the ceremony and instantly became a style icon. Harper's Bazaar named the gown one of their 'The Most Iconic Royal Wedding Gowns of All Time'. That same year my client commissioned this version of that dress. I have also included a reference photo from the Metropolitan Museum of a top from the same