c.1972 Lanvin Bright Navy, Cornflower, Yellow, Red & White Stripe Knit Dress W Belt promo It closes at the front

It closes at the front at the base of the plunge with two hook and eye and a slight overlap

I love the folds of fabric under the button that fall to look like a ribbon to the hem

This inner corset closes with hook and eye and the gown closes with a painted metal zipper

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

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

c.1972 Lanvin Bright Navy, Cornflower, Yellow, Red & White Stripe Knit Dress W Belt promo It closes at the frontThis 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