Exceptional Late 1970s Ady Couture Lausanne Black Silk Dress w Dramatic Wide Collar Shoulder Wrap designer-suzy-perette The bow at the front

The bow at the front is the stand out detail - it is set at the waist on an angle and purposely large and dramatic

billowing skirts with ruffled hem and most amazing - those ruffled and angel sleeves

9" dramatic tassels of the braided belt that circles the waist

curved bodice and fitted silhouette

Exceptional Late 1970s Ady Couture Lausanne Black Silk Dress w Dramatic Wide Collar Shoulder Wrap designer-suzy-perette The bow at the frontThis dress was made by hand in the atelier of Ady Couture who was based in Lausanne Switzerland. Ady herself was a couture trained seamstress and headed a team who had full permission of the Haute Couture houses she worked with to make the designs they showed in Paris for clients based in Switzerland and the surrounding areas. She would purchase the couture fabrics from the couture houses along with the patterns and then make the actual dresses in her