Sleek 1990s Valentino Classic Red Dress w Slit Front Detail & Tiered Ruffled Hem designer-gucci It has the added provenance

It has the added provenance of being the twin to the one featured in the ad campaign for 1970

There is elastic set into the waist seam for ease of fit and shaping

I love the long lean line that this creates and it is amazingly sexy despite the fact that it is not tight fitting

The gown is constructed of yards and yards of luxurious thick silk custom screened with a python design

Sleek 1990s Valentino Classic Red Dress w Slit Front Detail & Tiered Ruffled Hem designer-gucci It has the added provenanceValentino knows how to cut a dress to perfectly flatter a woman's body. Few designers can come close to the techniques he perfected over the decades of his prolific career. This is a wonderful example of his work from the turn of the 1990s. I love that it has been done in his classic crisp true Valentino red. This is a colour that he perfected to be flattering on almost any skin tone. The dress has that perfect minimalist feel to it that the nineties