1979 Zandra Rhodes Water Circles Dress designer-oscar-de-la-renta Modern Sizing Equivalent: XS

Modern Sizing Equivalent: XS

Modern Sizing Equivalent: XS- SM

The sleeves are full and cuff at the wrist and the dress skims over the body and then has a kicky flare to it through the skirt

This is a very simply cut but very beautifully draped and sexy Lanvin couture gown

This dress is clearly from that first collection and those very first prints designed by Rhodes

1979 Zandra Rhodes Water Circles Dress designer-oscar-de-la-renta Modern Sizing Equivalent: XSIn 1979 Zandra traveled to China and as inspired by what she found there. One of the fist designs she created form that trip were what she dubbed the "Chinese Water Circle" and the "Chinese Balls" patterns. Both of which are hand painted on red silk chiffon on this amazing dress. In the book The Art of Zandra Rhodes, she says, "To me China had purity and strength The strongest influences upon my Chinese prints were first, the stone carvings of water