1970s Floating Silk Chiffon Treacy Lowe Dress designer-bill-blass This is over a jet

This is over a jet black silk base

the little point of each sleeve

Very fine work and very light weight to wear yet feels like a piece that has substance to it at the same time

The original silk satin

1970s Floating Silk Chiffon Treacy Lowe Dress designer-bill-blass This is over a jetAll Treacy Lowe designs begin with the fabric that was essential to her design process and it shows. She used the lightest, finest, tissue silks and chiffons that you could possibly use before you have nothing in your hands at all. It means that a dress like this weighs a few ounces and feels like air wafting around you when you have it on. I love the way that thatched elastic has been made a part of the design a thick band of it circles the lower