‘Metamorphosis’ by Luly Yang, an exquisite couture dress. Seattle couture dress designer, Luly Yang, celebrated her ten year anniversary with a runway show called ‘A Monarch’s Tale: The Journey of a Decade,’ on April 27th. Tickets were $500 for a front row seat and open seating beyond the third row at $100 per ticket. This dress is created in silk, Swarovski crystals and black ostrich feathers at the top of the bodice. The original Monarch Butterfly dress was made of paper when Luly was a graphic designer. The reason for the paper dress was the fashion design contest she entered at the time required that the dresses be made of paper. She began with a very small two inch design of a Monarch butterfly wing, blew it up, had it printed on paper as posters and then made the dress from that. When she became a couture fashion designer and she re-did butterfly the design in fabric like you see pictured displayed in the window of her store.
After ten years in the business, Luly is a world recognized couture designer, her specialty is formal wear and custom bridal gowns. Her shop is in downtown Seattle on 4th Avenue at University Street, and the window displays are gorgeous. She has a staff of seven and has about thirty dresses under construction at any one time. It is said that this silk butterfly dress retails for $25,000 dollars. If I were young, rich and looked like Catherine Zeta-Jones in the movie ‘Entrapment,’ when she wore that couture red dress, I would buy this butterfly dress in a heart beat and ‘go to the ball,’ and look like a million bucks! Would you?
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Wow beautiful dress,if only I was rich …. :)
This dress is simply amazing.
If only I were young, skinny, rich, and had some place to go . . .
what and amazing and beautiful dress. i do not always like FASHION but this one i love.
Now some designer sure got this dress right! I would wear it if I had someplace to go. It’s a show stopper.
Hey, I could wear this!
If I were young, and rich, and looked like Catherine Zeta-Jones, I’d wear this to the grocery store, the bank, and where ever the mood struck me. This is breath taking gorgeous.
that is some design, even if borrowed from nature. yowza!
Beautiful dress,and very unique.
I’m taken back by all the amazing details. She is truly talents.
I’d be happy just to look like Catherine Zeta-Jones! ;-)
That dress is gorgeous.. What a beautiful design. :)
That is exquisite! That close-up photo of the detail is even more amazing. It would be fun to try this on when nobody was looking….
What a dress!!
Delicious, I love this beautiful dress.
I like Nicki’s answer! Is Luly related to Vera?
Oh yes, I sure would!
That’s alotta “ifs,” Madge. Lol. It’s a gorgeous creation, but I doubt I would ever wear something like this — I guess I’ll aways be a jeans and t-shirt gal, no matter what my finances! :)
what a fabulous dress!
That is a breathtaking dress – love the exquisite detail you captured! Thank you for dropping by, happy it led me back here!
If I ever get to go to Mexico and see where the Monarch butterflies go for the winter, I want to wear this dress!
That is some dress.
Eye catching!
What a beautiful and original dress. I know someone in my family who would love something like this!
I agree with the comment above..if I were young, rich and skinny this would be awesome to wear!
This is exquisite! If I had that kind of money, though, I think it would go to airline tickets and picture-taking excursions. Probably wearing jeans and tee shirts.
Beautiful design & construction – but not sure I’d want to wear it!