There we found a feast of exquisite beaded dresses and belts, textiles in more than enough number and variety to make up for the abbreviated taste we'd had the day before.

Almost everything else had a cat suit beneath, a sort of full-body black shiny corset under exquisite sheer dresses.

The woman's long blond hair cascaded over the shoulders of an exquisite black dress.

'It was one of the first places to sell exquisite 1920s and 1930s dresses and textiles,' Allison says.

The Sovereign was all ceremony and pomp, jewels and exquisite dress, parties and affairs.

Wild about fashion from childhood, and dreaming of nights on the town wearing exquisite dresses of their own design, they founded their business in Los Angeles in 2004.

"What an exquisite dress," Garak remarked.

The result was exquisite asymmetrical dresses with silvery-gray photo prints of birds of prey.

Nestled among the more raucous flame-stitch knits and the tough leather jackets of the 1970's at John Richmond's first show here were some exquisite 1930's bias-cut dresses in thin fabrics.

All three wore exquisite dresses and jackets that were as tight as sausage casings on their perfect, willowy figures.