Resort 1980 Halston Abstract Print Blue Silk Wrap Day Dress designer-antony-price Each pocket on the jacket

Each pocket on the jacket is still tacked shut

It is made from a printed silk jersey in muted soft purple tones done in a chevron print set in rows over the surface of the dress

Like Muir and many of her fellow designers of this time period she was using and working with fluid flowing jerseys and this piece is an outstanding example of just that

The sleeves are long as well and it has the unusual addition of long jersey ties at each shoulder

Resort 1980 Halston Abstract Print Blue Silk Wrap Day Dress designer-antony-price Each pocket on the jacketThe Resort and Spring 1980 collections were some of the few that Halston worked some prints into the collections. He normally focused on a solid color palette and I love seeing this side of his work. I found a runway reference photograph and you can see the similar print done on a long silk tank dress. This shorter, day version still employs the minimal seaming that Halston excelled at but is finished in his iconic wrap cut. The photo is from a