1960s Jean Varon Slit Front Empire Waist Art Deco Print Dress designer-maggy-rouff The coor is best shown

The coor is best shown in the label picture but it is a tad softer in real life

The color palette of this gorgeous Pucci dress is also quite fabulous and the dress is made from his signature lightweight silk jersey

From the Hyperbole line it has that classic sculptural silhouette

There is two teeny runs (1/4" and 1/2" respectively) in the fabric under one arm that appear stable and did not increase with cleaning

1960s Jean Varon Slit Front Empire Waist Art Deco Print Dress designer-maggy-rouff The coor is best shownJean Bates designed under the name Jean Varon in 1959 and quickly became a favorite of the British fashion sect. In 1965 one of his dresses was chosen as the 'Dress of the Year' and donated to the Fashion Museum in Bath, the same museum who held a retrospective of his work in 2006. Here he has done a brilliant little dress that is heavily influenced by the love for all things Art Deco during this time period. If it was not such a tiny sized piece I