1980s Claude Montana Fitted Peplum Dress designer-oscar-de-la-renta The construction is quite interesting

The construction is quite interesting on this one - that front panel actually opens to a wide pleat at the bottom with the same fabric inset under it

It is an amazing piece whose fabric was entirely hand-loomed

There is a small

Item #DS107

1973  /  Photographed for creative purposes on Nini Nguyen of Nini's Style - courtesy of Nini and her team

1980s Claude Montana Fitted Peplum Dress designer-oscar-de-la-renta The construction is quite interestingMontana often took the lines of 40s pieces and made them his own. His pieces stripped away the niceties of the earlier decades and he gave classic lines a new tough edginess that was pure Montana! This is a great little black dress that is fitted and follows a girls curves. We love the shoulders and that expanse of bare skin. Each has a tie detail and a slimmer strap on the top of the shoulder. The seaming mimics his iconic metal corsets and there is