Fathi Due cashmere sweater set with beaded floral trim

Item# 12313

Circa 1990
size 14-16

This beautiful sweater set is 100% cashmere and Made in France. It has a three button deep plunge neck cardigan with slash pockets and a 3" beaded ruffle around the neckline.

The beading is of white flowers with steel bead silver centers, pink sequined leaves and crystal beaded tiny floral studded stems.

The cardigan is 29" long, 24" sleeves with ruffled beaded cuffs 3" wide. The sweater and shell are black piped with a pale pink border. The shell has no sleeves and a scooped neckline that is trimmed in pale pink.

The set is in excellent condition and was previously owned by operatic superstar Anna Moffo Sarnoff. The set has labels in both the shell and sweater: Fathi Due Made in France.

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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