Cocktail Dress, Capucci

The cocktail sheath dress is characterised by the broad cape-like sleeves which are entirely edged, as is the skirt, with appliqués of pleated black and fuschia discs. The back reveals a deep neckline. Emy Badolato was a leading figure of Turin's high fashion in the Seventies and Eighties. In 1957 she becomes a widow and take the reins of her husband's tailor shop. She specialises in cocktail and evening dresses, draped and tailored, parallel to those by Capucci, Ferré and Valentino; from whom she purchases models and replicates in her elegant dressmaking ship of corso Vittorio 76. Ultimately, closing her business in 1994.