1980s Claude Montana Fitted Peplum Dress designer-john-galliano Signed sculpted gilt metal item

Signed sculpted gilt metal item

Being separates makes it insanely easy to mix and match for all four season

Museum worthy and in great condition

Simplicity stops there - the skirt is to the floor and voluminous with bands of velvet applied over the ever widening skirt till it hits the floor

The bodice is lightly boned and all those beaded and detailed appliques are set and applied by hand

1980s Claude Montana Fitted Peplum Dress designer-john-galliano Signed sculpted gilt metal itemMontana often took the lines of 40s pieces and made them his own. His pieces stripped away the niceties of the earlier decades and he gave classic lines a new tough edginess that was pure Montana! This is a great little black dress that is fitted and follows a girls curves. We love the shoulders and that expanse of bare skin. Each has a tie detail and a slimmer strap on the top of the shoulder. The seaming mimics his iconic metal corsets and there is