1970s Pauline Trigere Contrasting Black & White Silk Rope Print On or Off Shoulder Dress designer-bill-blass Item# S944

Item# S944

lightweight bias cut silk chiffon sit atop each other through the body with the sleeves left in a single layer

real metal discs

In all probability there were only one or two of these made in the entire world and this certainly this is the only one I have seen in this color

a version of it walked the runway for the Fall 1982 Haute Couture show and the cloth version was photoed for Vogue Italia that season

1970s Pauline Trigere Contrasting Black & White Silk Rope Print On or Off Shoulder Dress designer-bill-blass Item# S944Pauline Trigere launched her label in 1942. She moved to the US from Paris in 1937 and I feel like her designs always retained that bit of a French feel to them. By 1949 she had been awarded a Coty and went on to win two more in 1951 and 1959. The 1959 win coincided with being inducted into the Coty Fashion Hall of Fame. She was a pioneer in the use of cottons and wool for evening. In 1961 she made headlines for being the first major fashion house to