Spring 1995 Jean Paul Gaultier Fin de Siècle Collection Runway Paris Dress designer-jacques-heim / (3) Yves Saint Laurent

/  (3) Yves Saint Laurent Ensemble

I especially love the pop of color with that bib of embroidery  that covers the bodice

5" - the handle adds 4"

It is highly sculptural in feel with its wonderful draped panels layered and placed over and inner stiffened board

There were great bright micro-flower print dresses and the obligatory slit-up-to-there red-carpet evening gowns

Spring 1995 Jean Paul Gaultier Fin de Siècle Collection Runway Paris Dress designer-jacques-heim / (3) Yves Saint LaurentThis dress is from one of Gaultier's most memorable runway presentations, the collection where Madonna closed the show pushing an antique pram from which she lifted a young puppy to the great delight of the audience. Vogue'a Laird Borrelli Persson wrote in her review: We designers think weve invented something, but we havent at all, Jean Paul Gaultier told Vogue when talking about his Fin de Sicle collection, the subject of which was a century of