1986 Arnold Scaasi Couture Deep Red Lace Dress w Rhinestone Detailing & Trained Back Skirt designer-balestra-roma The skirt slips on with

The skirt slips on with an elastic waist and the jacket closes with the buttons at the front

By the eighties and into the nineties

At the back is a framed portrait of a horse against a blue sky backdrop with perfect clouds floating by

This is then topped by a scarf weight rayon twill which is printed in a typical sixties/seventies feeling pattern of blues and pinks

It is cut as a column of the finest grade silk chiffon to float over the body and cascades to the floor in a finish of ruffled silk

1986 Arnold Scaasi Couture Deep Red Lace Dress w Rhinestone Detailing & Trained Back Skirt designer-balestra-roma The skirt slips on withArnold Scaasi was born Arnold Isaacs in Montreal and the name Scassi is simply his own surname in reverse. He studied in Montreal and in Paris, apprenticed at the house of Paquin and then worked with the legendary Charles James. In 1964 he opened own couture salon. He dressed Hollywood stars like Lauren Bacall, Diahann Carroll and Elizabeth Taylor. He dressed several first ladies including Mamie Eisenhower, Hillary Clinton and both the Bush first