1968 Giorgio Sant'Angelo Purple Applique Velvet Dress w Wood Bead Fringe designer-roberto-cavalli This dress is from the

This dress is from the Fall/Winter 1988 Collection and for this collection he spoofed on the work of Coco Chanel

The shoulders are strong but cut slim - you can see that definite Biba cut at play

This is perhaps the ultimate hippie rock and roll coat and one that you will reach for over and over

Seam under bust: 13

1968 Giorgio Sant'Angelo Purple Applique Velvet Dress w Wood Bead Fringe designer-roberto-cavalli This dress is from theWhen doing the research to date this lovely dress, I found two references to pieces where Sant'Angelo used the same wood bead fringe that this dress has to finish an edging. One on a jacket photoed on Verushka for Vogue and the other edging a vest that is held in the permanent archives of the Metropolitan Museum. Both were dated to 1968. I found no other images where he used that wood fringing so am confident that this was something particular to that