Sleek 1990s Valentino Classic Red Dress w Slit Front Detail & Tiered Ruffled Hem designer-gucci The skirt of this gown

The skirt of this gown is made of that perfect silk satin - the type that is astonishingly soft to the touch

Each wrist zips to close and the fabric is gathered and ruched around these closures

The exterior underarms are perfect and the dress is strong and stable otherwise

custom made buttons and a loop

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

Sleek 1990s Valentino Classic Red Dress w Slit Front Detail & Tiered Ruffled Hem designer-gucci The skirt of this gownValentino 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