Mid 1950s Christian Dior London Demi-Couture Raspberry Printed Silk Coat & Dress Set designer-sarmi Unheard fo pricing in 1992

Unheard fo pricing in 1992

The skirt feels like a sarong in style and the silk is placed and warped over the hips

textured silk-cotton mix

not cut out of a piece of cloth - in other words it was made deliberately to be this shape as it was meticulously hand made stitch by stitch

Unlined buttons at the front and cuffs

Mid 1950s Christian Dior London Demi-Couture Raspberry Printed Silk Coat & Dress Set designer-sarmi Unheard fo pricing in 1992This dress and coat set is extraordinary. After much research I have dated it to the mid fifties while Christian Dior still presided over the house. You can see a striking similarity to the color and print in the examples shown here from the Haute Couture collections between 1954 and 1956. This is the Christian Dior London label and is considered to be demi couture from this time period of Dior's history and this set in particular is numbered. This