Adelle Simpson fuchsia silk chiffon dress with white polka dots. The bodice is sheer chiffon across the shoulders and upper chest and short sleeves. The sheer chiffon closes with a single hook and back center neck. The bust is draped and pleated and fully boned. The skirt of the dress is wrapped around the dress one and half times. The skirt is tightly gathered into the natural waistline seam. Center back zipper.  

SIZE: BUST-32, WAIST-26, HIPS-36, LENGTH-43

CONDITION: Excellent 

INDEX # 1  ||  Stock # 30952  ||  $425.00 

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Bill Blass buttery cream lined in navy blue all weather trench coat with matching tie sash belt. Wide pointed lapels and collar. The sleeves are to the wrists and have a turned back cuff. Two angled welt pockets. "Like most people who seem to be most typically New York, Bill Blass comes from Indiana," wrote native Midwesterner Eleanor Lambert in an early press release for Blass when he worked at Maurice Rentner. Blass reigns as an American classic, the man who abidingly exemplifies high style because his work plays on the sharp edge of glamor but never falls into the abyss of indecency. Likewise, it defines sophisticated style because it has elements of the naive and the crude in impeccable balance. Blass is the perfect example of fashion's deconstructivist internal oppositions of real, hyper-glamour, and style synthesis. 

SIZE: BUST-40, SHOULDERS-18, SLEEVE-34, LENGTH-46

CONDITION: Excellent 

INDEX # 2  ||  Stock # 29900  ||  $195.00 

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Bill Blass for Maurice Reitner. Mulberry velvet evening coat embroidered in silver metallic thread in a floral design. Hidden covered snaps close the coat down the center front. The high rounded neckline is accented with a tightly rolled collar that continues down the center front, around the bottom edge of the coat and around the hem of the sleeves. The roll is padded out and accented with a chevron of sliver crystal beads. The long sleeves are kimono style. The lining is deep chocolate brown cotton. Wonderful coat!  

SIZE: B-34, W-32, LENGTH-39

CONDITION: Excellent 

INDEX # 3  ||  Stock # 31414  ||  $350.00 

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Black silk knit evening gown accented with long black fringe. The bodice has long narrow sleeves and a scooped neckline. The skirt is wrappedright over left. Following the hem line and the lapped edge is a line of long black fringe. Blass reigns as an American classic, the man who abidingly exemplifies high style because his work plays on the sharp edge of glamor but never falls into the abyss of indecency. Likewise, it defines sophisticated style because it has elements of the naive and the crude in impeccable balance. Blass is the perfect example of fashion's deconstructivist internal oppositions of real, hyper-glamour, and style synthesis. 

SIZE: BUST-36, WAIST-25, HIPS-44, LENGTH-58

CONDITION: Excellent 

INDEX # 4  ||  Stock # 26973  ||  $365.00 

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Silver and maize frames with CD log on the temples. Prescription 

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CONDITION: Excellent 

INDEX # 5  ||  Stock # 28433  ||  $85.00 

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Giorgio Sant'Angelo chocolate brown cashmere sweater with split skirt. The sweater top is v-neckline with embroidered flowers decorating the front, shoulders and across the upper back. Outlining the neckline, hem and sleeve hem is gold thread woven into he cashmere. The sides of the sweater are slit up five inches. The pants are in the Gaucho style band have an elastic waistband. Inspired by hippie and street fashions, Sant'Angelo also translated ideas that would fit the marketplace. His love of ethnic clothing was evident, and his gypsy looks included elements of romanticism. Introducing a modern component, he incorporated Lycra body suits with these varied influences. He offered women a chance at self-expression through dress. In 1972 Sant'Angelo left behind his gypsy and Native American inspirations and concentrated on body-conscious designs combining knits and wovens. His 33-piece collection was shown at the Guggenheim Museum and further emphasized Sant'Angelo's commitment to fashion design as an artform. "To me, soul means freedom and inner confidence" Sant'Angelo commented on the collection. "I express it in happy, bright colors, and in simplicity of design." He presented matching knit shirts, tops, trousers, and bras that folded into an envelope for travel. These pieces were based around a body stocking and formed the 1970s American fashion silhouette. 

SIZE: BUST-36, WAIST-ELASTIC, HIPS-48

CONDITION: Excellent 

INDEX # 6  ||  Stock # 31265  ||  $125.00 

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c.1970s Hanae Mori silk tunic and wide leg pants suit in slate blue with an op art pattern in red-orange, black, kelley green, canary yellow and baby blue. It has high neckline with rolled collar, an abbreviated poets sleeve with three inch cuff that closes with covered buttons and the tunic closes with a center back zipper. The tunic can be belted with a matching segemented sash belt. The trousers have a very wide leg and a center back zipper. Both pieces are fully lined in navy blue rayon, with the lining in the tunic being stamped with Hanae Mori. 

SIZE: BUST-36, WAIST-30, HIPS-38

CONDITION: Excellent 

INDEX # 7  ||  Stock # 28407  ||  $575.00 

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Holly's Harp pink silk chiffon party dress. The neckline is a deeply cut v-line both in front and back. The Bertha collar comes down over the shoulders onto he upper arms forming the sleeves. The dress is layered with pink jersey as the slip and then two layers of pink chiffon over that. The top layer of the chiffon is wrapped around the back to the front where it is stops just slightly left of center and the edge runs down on a curving angle to attach by pleating into the side seam. At the right of the center back next to the zipper is a matching pink chiffon drape.

I've been designing clothes since the late 1960s. I always try to remind myself that I am dressing a woman's soul as well as her body. Souls and bodies do best when they are relaxed, fluid, and comfortable. They love to play "dress-up." They love a good laugh as well as perfect quiet and softness. I hope my clothes reflect a woman's soul.

Many students are torn between the glamour of stage or film design and high fashion. Holly Harp was able to merge both her love of costume and fashion into a successful professional career that lasted more than 25 years. Harp went with an early instinct after designing sandals on a whim, and returned to college with her sights set on becoming a designer. She studied in the theatre department and worked on her fashion degree. Her style was dramatic, feminine, and refined. Harp moved to the West Coast during the height of hippie-doom in 1966. San Francisco hippies tended to borrow street styles and recycle clothing salvaged from the local Goodwill, while Los Angeles, where Harp set up shop, was more interested in marketing styles and trends in the form of new designs. The latter was more of a "rich hippie" look. Harp was inspired by the youthful street fashions and was referred to by the Los Angeles Times as the city's "doyenne of feathers and fringe." Her rock star clients had included Janis Joplin and Grace Slick, who loved Harp's wonderful batiks, feathers, and hand-dyed fabrics. Harp's clothes suited the tastes of the youthful population who loved psychedelic colors and melodramatic effects.

It was more than being in the right place at the right time. Harp began to distill her designs into her own personal expression. During the 1970s there was more emphasis on the body. The soft matte jersey Harp experimented with became a signature fabric along with chiffon. There was a continuation of using beadwork, flowers, feathers, and airbrushed designs but with a softer, refined touch. Harp used complicated draping techniques to emphasize feminine qualities rather than the prevailing minimal approach. Answers.com 

SIZE: BUST-38, WAIST-34, HIPS-36, LENGTH-40

CONDITION: Excellent 

INDEX # 8  ||  Stock # 31069  ||  $185.00 

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INDEX # 9  ||  Stock # 31367  ||  $89.00 

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INDEX # 10  ||  Stock # 30960  ||  $125.00 

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INDEX # 11  ||  Stock # 31266  ||  $325.00 

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Valentina beaded sleeveless jacket that closes at the center front with hooks and eyes. The little jacket is a wool knit base completely covered in black sequins with beaded diamond decorations across the back and on the two front panels. The neckline, center front panel edges, armyces and around the bottom edge of the jacket area accented with an inch wide border of coral faceted beads, gold seed beads, gold crystal beads rhinestone and small white faceted beads. The diamonds contain the same colors of beads and rhinestones. The borders and the diamond shapes are all outlined with a looped gold braid trim.  

SIZE: B-34, LENGTH- 22

CONDITION: Excellent 

INDEX # 12  ||  Stock # 31382  ||  $98.00 

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YSL Rive Gauche iconic navy blue knit tuxedo trousers and short jacket. Black satin rolled lapels and small welt breast pocket. Two buttons close the jacket at center front. Six matching buttons close the cuff. The trousers have a wide waistband and are pleated front. In 1962 he opened his own couture house. Rive Gauche, his ready-to-wear line, was established in 1966.

St. Laurent's influence was immediate and far-reaching. Among his successes - the Mandarin collection in 1965, Le Smoking tuxedo suits of 1967 and beyond, the Safari suits of 1968 and the Russian inspired collection of 1976.

St. Laurent retired in 2002. His couture atelier was closed, but the Rive Gauche line continued to be designed by Tom Ford, who started there in 2001. In 2004, Ford left Saint Laurent, and Ford's assistant, Stefano Pilati was named the new creative director. 

SIZE: BUST-38, WAIST-26, HIPS-38, PANT LENGTH-4

CONDITION: Excellent 

INDEX # 13  ||  Stock # 28935  ||  $350.00 

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YVES SAINT LAURENT black wool felt wide brim hat with an under brim of rabbit fur.  

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CONDITION: Excellent 

INDEX # 14  ||  Stock # 31348  ||  $145.00 

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