1972 Bob Mackie Ray Aghayan Purple Jersey Dress w Macrame designer-james-galanos As with many of Yves'

As with many of Yves' pieces

It has tremendous volume as it is meant to have no matter what your size

I have many Blass pieces and I have to tell you that you can see his influence in this piece and I would suspect it was made at some point while he was there

It is cut on the bias

Made of hand dyed burnt orange ostrich feathers that are set onto the base fabric so that they almost twist - its almost like they create a bias cut fabric out of the feathers - this causes it to roll open a bit when one so you get this long lean line and it always seems to sit perfectly in place and not create bulk like some feather pieces can

1972 Bob Mackie Ray Aghayan Purple Jersey Dress w Macrame designer-james-galanos As with many of Yves'I am listing three of these early Bob Mackie and Ray Aghayan dresses today and all are from the daughter of the original owner. All three have some degree of flaws to them but it was very important to my client to find new homes for these where they could be loved once again so all are priced very reasonably given the rarity of them. All are strong and wearable if you don't mind that they are not 100% perfect. They are all from the early seventies and