GIANNI VERSACE COUTURE FALL/WINTER 1996 BLUE DOUBLE BREASTED BELTED SKIRT SUIT EMSEMBLE

Blue double-breasted jacket and pink mini skirt ensemble from Gianni Versace’s Fall/Winter 1996 ready-to-wear runway show under the artistic direction of Gianni Versace.

“The taking-stock nature of Gianni Versace’s Fall 1996 outing was perfectly in tune with the zeitgeist,” Laird Borrelli Persson for Vogue, “Designers are thinking about the future,” the magazine argued, “but in terms of reaffirming and perfecting the classics. Luxury is the name of the game. This fall, fashion is not trying to change the world. While Versace stuck with tried-and-true silhouettes here, he made news with audacious color experiments including dresses in sky blue topped with cherry red, and unexpected material mixes like lace trim applied to leather and rhinestone-studded mesh.”

Size: IT40 (true-to-size - size tag and content label have been removed).

Jacket:

Length: 27.5 in / 70 cm.

Waist: 15 in / 39 cm.

Sleeve length: 23 in. / 59 cm.

Shoulder length: 14.5 in. / 37 cm.

Materials: Tweed, silk, metal. 

Skirt:

Length: 19 in / 49 cm.

Waist: 13 in / 33 cm.

Materials: Tweed, silk, metal. 

Made in France. 

As seen on Karen Mulder at Gianni Versace’s Fall/Winter 1996 ready-to-wear runway show.