green and brown dress combination Color Crush: Emerald Green – Alicia Wood Lifestyle

Details Style: Victorian, Elegant, Sophisticated

Look chic in satin with our Palasha dress

Open back design adding modern allure

Spending the night in the Kira Purple Sequin Feather Dress is something you'll be dreaming about for days to come

I have had the twin of this dress in the shop many many years ago. That dress did not have its Oscar label in it but it did have a handwritten tag inside that dated it to 1968. I've also included a reference photo that is Oscar dress that was a part of an exhibit and that one was from the Fall 1967 collection. You can see the similarities in design and how he was really focused on this look and feel for 1967 through to 1968. He used this kind of fabric freely throughout those collections in particular. The label in the dress identifies it as being a part of his earliest main line. When Oscar De la Renta first started his career he began a partnership with the fashion house of Jane Derby in 1965. Jane Derby died shortly after and in 1966 the first labels that bore only the Oscar de la Renta name appeared. That makes this a very early example of his higher end work. It is gorgeous