1980s Ady Couture Lausanne Black Lace & Sequin Black Dress w Dropped Full Skirt designer-michaele-vollbracht what the collection lacked in

what the collection lacked in scope it made up for in the sort of sheer dazzle that Prada is so adept at providing"

The skirt is cut to skim the hips and hug the body

And attached collar again blends the velvet and lame and is cut so a small attached scarf can be swung jauntily around the neck

Maybe even more so as Miuccia always seems to design ahead of the curve

or pull the fabric down to meet the waist of the skirt

1980s Ady Couture Lausanne Black Lace & Sequin Black Dress w Dropped Full Skirt designer-michaele-vollbracht what the collection lacked inThis dress was made by hand in the atelier of Ady Couture who was based in Lausanne Switzerland. Ady herself was a couture trained seamstress and headed a team who had full permission of the Haute Couture houses she worked with to make the designs they showed in Paris for clients based in Switzerland and the surrounding areas. She would purchase the couture fabrics from the couture houses along with the patterns and then make the actual dresses in her