Dress from a painting

Yves Saint Laurent is responsible for the world's most unusual wedding dress.

Dress from a painting. Wilhelmina von Hallwyl’s 1865 pink gown by W W. Ullberg & Comp. T

Mary Todd Lincoln dress 1850s.

Bobergh Evening gown, 1861 Silk satin, silk ribbon, handmade "Point de Gaze" lace Charles Frederick Worth and Otto Bobergh founded Worth & Bobergh in Paris in the fall of 1857 or 1858

                                                           DESIGNED BY Ann Lowe

                                                            American, 1898 - 1981

Debutante dress designed by Ann Lowe and worn by Barbara Baldwin Dowd, 1966. According to the Smithsonian: “An ivory dress decorated with swirls of handmade fabric rose vines. The variety of rose depicted on the dress is the American Beauty, which has led to it being called the "American Beauty" dress

Sophie Malgat in Balenciaga's cocktail dress made from hundreds of scalloped bands of silk chiffon sewn on a straight slip, Fall 1950, photo by Philippe Pottier, L'Officiel, 1950

Pierre Balmain, 1952 | Black velvet cocktail dress with chiffon roses embroidered by François Lesage, fall-winter 1952-1953