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This tornado of influences led her to create a retro, Old World, earthy collection that refuses to sexualize the female form while also playing on traditional femininity

This handmade dress features soft velvet fabric and a lovely flutter-sleeve with a maxi-wrap style

This halter-neck beauty seriously had me fooled because it looks way more high-end than it is

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Dresses of the next decade would be similarly elaborately embroidered creations with trains: This particular one is said by one source to have been worn by Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Wrttemberg) the second wife of Paul I in 1820, and is described as simplified in style compared to those of previous centuries of court wear, with a natural waistline and an a-line skirt