2010-2011 Alexander McQueen Strapless Ivory Silk Dress w Hand Embroidered Flowers & Train designer-balestra-roma It is so clever and

It is so clever and unusual

Those silk 'leafs' have been embroidered over the entire dress to highlight the cut

which were not referenced from the sixties

Where the corners of the arm opening meet there is the teeniest of nick to the velvet on each side

That amazing print covers the entire surface of the jersey fabric

2010-2011 Alexander McQueen Strapless Ivory Silk Dress w Hand Embroidered Flowers & Train designer-balestra-roma It is so clever andThis gown dates to the 2010 2011 season. It was made (or completed) under the creative direction of Sarah Burton. The dress certainly would have been released when Sarah had taken over the reins of McQueen. The date of the hang tag does have it falling right in that window where Alexander could have had a hand in its design and then by its release it would have been under Sarah's era. It is a phenomenal example of how beautiful that the McQueen