Valentino sequined gown and matching jacket

Item# 12310

Size 12-14
Circa 1980-1990

This is a stunning peacock colored sequin long gown and matching jacket made by Valentino for American opera star Anna Moffo. It has it's Valentino Boutique label and both pieces are lined in black silk.

The dress has a modest straight across above the cleavage top and moderate 1 1/2" wide straps. The dress is a size 12-14, 59" long with a 16" long side slit up the leg. The jacket has a turnup collar, it measures 28 1/2" long with 3 " cuffs on the long sleeves.

The peacock colors appear in chevrons of colors from teal blue, black to fuchsia. Both pieces are in wearable condition, not perfect but in very good condition.

The gown is from the Estate of Anna Moffo (see biographical information below) and comes with a photo of the dramatic and beautiful singer. She was a recording artist with RCA records and a television star after her retirement from the opera. She was a humanitarian and received the Spirit Award in 1967 and the American Cancer Society award in 2004. She was our best known American lyrical and dramatic soprano of the 1950's.

$385

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Biographical Information on Anna Moffo Sarnoff:
Born 6/27/32 in Wayne Indiana died 3/10/2006. She received a Fullbright Scholarship to The Academia de Santa Cecilia in Rome to study advanced opera. Debuted on November 1959 by playing Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera.

She was a major recording artist for RCA victor records and traveled the world performing.

Anna was considered the best known American lyrical and dramatic soprano singer in the 1950's. It her later life she was married to Robert Sarnoff the Chairman of RCA.

She was well known for her charity fund raising and received the Spirit Award in 1967 as well as the Cancer Society Humanitarian award in 2004.

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