black puffy short dress Nova Contoured Sweetheart Puff Sleeve Mini a back tie strap and invisible zipper keep the fit secure Black Sweetheart Puffy Short Prom

Glam was simple with a nude lip and black eyeliner

The bonnet closes with a piece of black ribbon

It tells a unique story depending on how you wear it. Fitting for a storyteller, indeed

Photographed by Helmut Newton for the September 1983 issue of Vogue, it is ultra-chic, seductive and a perfect example as to why Colin McDowell wrote of Saint Laurent in Business of Fashion, When he retired in 2002, he could look back over his years as a designer and, with perfect justification, claim not only that every major change in womens dress had originated with him, but also that many current female attitudes were, in part, the result of his uncompromisingly bold fashion approaches, not least to self and sexuality.