Vogue Cover: Brides; New York Fashions

Colors mixed by Madame Lanvin and painted by Bérard—for one of the most spectacular evening wraps that came out of the Paris Openings this year. It's a cape, falling like a curtain to the floor, and made of brick-colored velvet lined with pale almond-green wool. Down each side are gold-striped revers of brocaded lamé as resplendent as mosaics from a palace portico. Beneath the cape is an electrifying Scheherazade dress of sheer gold lamé, its corselet bodice closed with a zipper and shirred into ripples at the side and front seams.