evening dress

Bruce Oldfield 1950

Summary

Printed silk evening/cocktail dress with a design of red and green stylised flowers on a beige and black ground; sleeveless and strapless corsetted bodice; sweetheart neckline; skirt falling in drapes from the left hip. Inner woven label, written in ink 'Susan' - the name of the original catwalk model. No Bruce Oldfield label. An early Bruce Oldfield model from one of his earlier collections (he first showed in London in 1975) - featured in a Silk Cut advertising campaign in Vogue (Dec 1979). Owned and worn by the model Jerry Hall.