1970s Alberto Fabiani Open Slit Coral Silk Print Dress designer-adele-simpson This dress weighs mere ounces

This dress weighs mere ounces and is stunningly beautiful in its simplicity and elegance

Item# DD2313

Its simplicity itself through the skirt and the torso is a study in cut work

This skims and hugs the body to the hips and then all craziness breaks loose

One small stitch repair to the silk near one arm

1970s Alberto Fabiani Open Slit Coral Silk Print Dress designer-adele-simpson This dress weighs mere ouncesThis is a very pretty red coral silk dress by the Italian designer Alberto Fabiani. His name is best known for the collaboration with his wife Simonetta, whom with for three years they ran the Simonetta et Fabiani label from 1962 1965 66. Both before and after that until her retired in the early 1970s he designed solely under his own label. This dress is from the latter part of his career and is quite wonderful. It is made of a fine, light silk done