Important Spring 1978 Christian Dior by Marc Bohan Prettiest Pink Floral Silk Chiffon Strapless Dress designer-john-kloss On the one long panel

On the one long panel there is a crane applied onto the silk and there are also little squares of metallic gold thread that have been used to give just a little extra glint of high glamour

It is made of a silk crepe de chine in a beautiful shade of red

The dress is fully lined in a pale yellow silk taffeta and the top is unlined

I love that the inner skirt is finished at its hem with a silk piping of the same fabric as the exterior

Important Spring 1978 Christian Dior by Marc Bohan Prettiest Pink Floral Silk Chiffon Strapless Dress designer-john-kloss On the one long panelIt is so rare to have such great documentation on dress and this one not only has a ton of documentation from the 1978 season that it originally debuted in but it also has the added modern provenance of being the dress that Kate Hudson wore while pregnant in 2018. I think that three versions of this dress were made. We found the runway pictures of the version that went more over the shoulder, There was this version with no straps and then there is a