c.1972 Lanvin Bright Navy, Cornflower, Yellow, Red & White Stripe Knit Dress W Belt promo Item# DD872

Item# DD872

plucked from a curlicued baroque interior and all mixed up with bananas and naive monkeys in an exuberantly cartoonish print that looked like something lifted from a poster for a Josephine Baker performance at the Folies Bergère in the twenties

"going back to what counts

When worn together it looks like one single piece but because it is two you could potentially break it up and wear the pieces separately

It has all of the hallmarks of the Chanel suit - the chain at the inner hem

c.1972 Lanvin Bright Navy, Cornflower, Yellow, Red & White Stripe Knit Dress W Belt promo Item# DD872This dress would have been designed by Belgian born Jules Francois Crahay, who headed the Lanvin ateliers from 1964 1984. He has been noted as one of fashions 'great colorists with his colorful patterns making his 1970s Lanvin designs hugely desirable and influential.' His time at the Lanvin label is one of my personal favourites for the house. I especially love the his work during the period through the late sixties and into the early 1970s. He was a