1968 Bill Blass Museum Documented Brown Velvet & Silver Thread Coat designer-yves-saint-laurent It closes with a series

It closes with a series of buttons down the front and these are all hidden under the front panel of fabric It is utterly gorgeous

The dress has the feel of the 1940s to it and is an unusual piece that is easy to wear and has lots of impact despite its simple design

who also designed the Boutique lines

Marianne Faithfull

1968 Bill Blass Museum Documented Brown Velvet & Silver Thread Coat designer-yves-saint-laurent It closes with a seriesBill Blass became the head designer at Maurice Rentner in 1959 and soon after that his name started to appear on the labels. In 1970 he bought out the Maurice Rentner label and re launched it under his own name. These Bill Blass for Maurice Rentner pieces, are some of his earliest and you will find many of them, like the twin of this coat, in museum collections throughout the world. Blass was arguably one of the most famous of all the American