This top is a classic Cassini piece. Cassini was a firm believer in showing off the woman's body, and glamorizing it. What better way to do that than with embellishments and pazaz. I love the movement of this top, it kinda sways with you as you walk. It feels well made, and thats because it is. This top is from the 80's. Its made of Chiffon, beads, and sequins. The most iconic of trifectas.
Cassini had the longest career out of any American designer, Designing for over 7 decades. Starting off doing costume design, Cassini was able to leverage himself and eventually began dressing the best of Hollywood, like Marylin Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Rita Hayworth, to name a few.
The person he dressed most though, was and remains one of the most influential style icons of every generation, Miss Jackie O. SO yes, we should take our hats off to the impeccably dressed Jackie, But we should probably be giving a standing ovation to Mr. Cassini who dressed Jackie over the decades. Cassini designed 300 outfits for Jackie O in 3 years. He referred to himself as her secretary of style. The satin white gown designed by Cassini that Jackie wore to the inaugural gala ball in 1961 is recognized as one of the 50 dresses to have changed the world by the design museum in England.