Magnet Dress in Pomegranate
Also available to try in our Madrid boutique — Calle Libertad 6
A Grecian-inspired dress in Pomegranate, finely and permanently pleated in Daphne Valente's signature technique. A bouffant, draped bodice with elbow-length ruffled sleeves sits above a fitted pleated skirt, with a dramatic V-shaped ruffle cascading down the back and a slit tracing up one leg.
Cut from a single piece of fabric with no fasteners and no unnecessary seams, the dress combines sculptural volume on top with a slim, body-skimming silhouette below.
Designed to stretch to fit, with a bust up to 120cm and waist up to 100cm.
Color: Pomegranate • Boat neckline • Bouffant draped bodice with ruffled elbow-length sleeves • Fitted pleated skirt with side slit • Dramatic ruffled back drape • Finely pleated, permanently set
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Daphne Valente is an Athens-based designer who has spent four decades perfecting the art of pleating. Trained at F.I.T. in New York and Central Saint Martins in London, her creative path was set the moment she encountered an exhibition on Mariano Fortuny, whose own pleated Delphos gowns became the starting point for a technique she would spend a lifetime making her own. Drawing on the sculptural forms of Ancient Greek dress, particularly the chiton, she begins each piece as a single rectangle of fabric, draped and sculpted directly on the dress form before it is permanently pleated, with no fasteners and no unnecessary seams. The result is a made-to-move, one-size silhouette designed to flatter any body, championed by a devoted following of Athenian society for decades.
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