{"title":"Dresses","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"givenchy-haute-couture-beaded-black-dress-fw99-by-mcqueen","title":"Alexander McQueen for Givenchy Haute Couture Beaded Dress Fall\/Winter 1998 \"Blade Runner\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sheath dress from Alexander McQueen's Fall\/Winter 1998 Givenchy Haute Couture collection — presented at a moment when McQueen's tenure at the house had reached its most fully realized expression. The collection, staged on an illuminated checkerboard runway and developed around a dystopian, cinematic vision, remains among the most documented presentations in late-20th-century couture history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery inch of the bodice and skirt is hand-beaded in dense jet-black bugle beads shot through with an iridescent blue-purple sheen. Cream silk banding at the bust and hip provides a sharp architectural counterpoint — a deliberate break in the surface that emphasizes the garment's structural precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe weight of the beading speaks directly to the atelier hours required: garment-by-garment hand-work of the kind that defines the haute couture standard. McQueen directed Givenchy Haute Couture from 1996 to 2001, bringing to the house a tension between its founding codes of restraint and his own instinct for the extreme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigned Givenchy Couture, Paris. Made in France. French couture size 38. Accompanied by original Givenchy garment bag.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LE SUIT ARCHIVE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48172266815678,"sku":null,"price":7200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/4869\/4974\/files\/IMG-7011.jpg?v=1784325300"},{"product_id":"ysl-gold-dres","title":"Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello Gold Lamé Draped Dress, Runway Look 13, SS17","description":"\u003cp\u003eA runway piece from Anthony Vaccarello's debut collection for Saint Laurent — Spring\/Summer 2017, shown in Paris in October 2016. Look 13 is cut in liquid gold lamé: a draped bodice gathering at the hip into a cascading asymmetric panel that falls well past the hemline, set against structured shoulder pads and long sleeves. The construction holds a silhouette that operates simultaneously as a mini dress and a draped column — structure and movement in deliberate tension.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVaccarello succeeded Hedi Slimane as creative director of Saint Laurent in April 2016. His debut collection marked a return to the house's grounding in extreme femininity and Parisian couture sensibility, reintroducing draped jersey, lamé, and sensual tailoring as the central vocabulary of the house after Slimane's rock-inflected tenure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGold lamé. Structured shoulder pads. Draped asymmetric panel. Mini length beneath the drape. Long sleeves. Runway verified: Look 13, SS17. Excellent condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LE SUIT ARCHIVE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48697952305342,"sku":null,"price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/4869\/4974\/files\/IMG_6757-2.jpg?v=1786388523"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.lesuitarchive.com\/collections\/dresses.oembed","provider":"LE SUIT ARCHIVE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}