Courrèges Mini Dress - Vintage 1970 Hyperbole Wool Space-Age Sleeveless Mod Wool
Vibrant and rare-to-find bright orange André Courrèges dress dating back to the early 1970's. Courreges launched his Space-Age collection in 1964. The shapes of his clothes were geometric: squares, trapezoids, triangles. The main features of his ultra-modern, uncluttered look spread quickly throughout the fashion world, especially the miniskirt, which he introduced to France. This stunning orange wool dress, from this popular Hyperbole line, is a proper example of his vision. The garment feature
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Among the most influential 20th century fashion designers, André Courrèges can legitimately be attributed with changing the way women dressed in the 1960s. His characteristic Space Age style was unmistakeable — he even claimed to have invented the miniskirt, although the point is a contentious one. Alas, as is the way with fashion, the 1970s heralded a new era of sartorial style — one that forgot the last as quickly as it took grip. Dismayed but undeterred, Courrèges dipped his toes into new wor