Iconic Fall 1989 Patrick Kelly Off Shoulder Leopard Stretch Velvet Dress designer-ossie-clark hooks and snaps

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This dress is exactly one of those patchwork creations mentioned above and it is gorgeous

If you look closely you realize that the print is actually a combination of stylized dragons and birds

The back of the skirt is really where it gets seriously fabulous - four tiers of fabric have been painstakingly gathered into the tiniest of ruching at the top of each panel

Iconic Fall 1989 Patrick Kelly Off Shoulder Leopard Stretch Velvet Dress designer-ossie-clark hooks and snapsPatrick Kelly is a celebrated African American designer and his work will be seen in the planned exhibit 'Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love' this October at San Franciscos de Young Museum. It is an expanded version of the original 2014 exhibit that showed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Kelly opened his atelier in 1988 in Paris and quickly became an sensation. Laura Camerlengo, the associate curator of costume and textile arts at the Fine Arts Museums