Important Spring 1978 Christian Dior by Marc Bohan Prettiest Pink Floral Silk Chiffon Strapless Dress designer-john-kloss The shawl or portrait collar

The shawl or portrait collar is expansive and covers the entire shoulder - in fact this one sits just off the shoulder allowing for an expanse of bare skin

The wide pink attached sash at the waist gives shape and a pretty pop of colors

Two tulle underskirts with the inner having a tiered bottom and both edges finished with a wide strip of horsehair ribbon inside for shape

On the wrong girl this might seem comical but on the right girl it will be stupendous and become legendary for its audacity and boldness

On the one long panel there is a crane applied onto the silk and there are also little squares of metallic gold thread that have been used to give just a little extra glint of high glamour

Important Spring 1978 Christian Dior by Marc Bohan Prettiest Pink Floral Silk Chiffon Strapless Dress designer-john-kloss The shawl or portrait collarIt is so rare to have such great documentation on dress and this one not only has a ton of documentation from the 1978 season that it originally debuted in but it also has the added modern provenance of being the dress that Kate Hudson wore while pregnant in 2018. I think that three versions of this dress were made. We found the runway pictures of the version that went more over the shoulder, There was this version with no straps and then there is a