Evening suit

Designer Romeo Gigli Italian

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An elegant, but somewhat impractical, dinner suit assumes the position of modern fashion: one can apply one extravagant flourish to a fashion module, but no more. In Yves Saint Laurent's "Bird-of-Paradise" dress for Baroness de Rothschild, it was a sheer T-shirt. Here it is the feathers on a black suit.

Evening suit, Romeo Gigli (Italian, born 1949), (a) silk, feathers; (b) silk, Italian

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Evening suit, Romeo Gigli (Italian, born 1949), (a) silk, feathers; (b) silk, Italian
Evening suit, Romeo Gigli (Italian, born 1949), (a) silk, feathers; (b) silk, Italian
Evening suit, Romeo Gigli (Italian, born 1949), (a) silk, feathers; (b) silk, Italian
Evening suit, Romeo Gigli (Italian, born 1949), (a) silk, feathers; (b) silk, Italian

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