Amazing Fall 2002 Christian Dior by John Galliano Runway Look 32 Bias Cut Silk Velvet Devore Backless Dress designer-victoria-royal at the Golden Globe Awards

at the Golden Globe Awards

The bodice is pure bombshell vixen - it has a shaped

The shoulders are made of this same piping and please look at the close-ups closely - you will see that the shoulder piping actually lines with with where the piping n the bust is set

originally launched by Cristóbal Balenciaga in 1917

Amazing Fall 2002 Christian Dior by John Galliano Runway Look 32 Bias Cut Silk Velvet Devore Backless Dress designer-victoria-royal at the Golden Globe AwardsThis is the twin of the dress shown on the Christian Dior Fall 2002 runway for Look 32. It is an incredibly cut dress and the fabric choice is equally impressive. At the time Vogue commented that: "this fall collection is almost classic in its Dior isms containing all the patterns, symbols and accessories on which Galliano has re built the house foundations. That means ethnic color and print, love of the eighteenth century, an obsession with bias cut