Balenciaga, 1967This dress is the reason I love Pinterest so much. I wasn't looking at anything in particular, but stumbled across this dress from the Metropolitan Museum collection, pinned by Nina Garcia. I'm almost lost for words to describe how amazing I find this dress. I thought it was amazing before I saw the date underneath it, but discovering it's from 1967 only increased my love of it.
The colour, the shape, the edging, nothing about this dress gives you any indication that it is over fifty years old. The scalloped edging is reminiscent of a Chloe collection from a few seasons back, and the mullet shape has been seen on runways the world over for the last few seasons. In my opinion this is exactly what makes this dress so special. It's incredibly beautiful, but it isn't obviously from a certain era. Despite that it's couture, and would have cost thousands of pounds to buy, if you could still be wearing it fifty years later, surely that makes it a worthwhile investment? And how much of todays fashion could you say that about?
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