Roberto Cavalli Resort2013 leopard dress

This Roberto Cavalli Resort2013 leopard dress is too much. One print is a choice. Two is Cavalli. Leopard on ivory from the shoulders to the waist. Long sleeves. A keyhole neckline with one gold button holding it together. Then a black band. Below it, baroque scrolls in lilac and gray curl all the way down to a hem that kicks out in a flounce. The label points to 2013, when Roberto was still designing the line himself. This is a man who started out in Florence in the early 1970s by patenting a way to print on leather. Hermès and Pierre Cardin came calling. He spent the next forty years printing on everything else, usually all at once. His signature is in the pattern, in case anyone asks who did this. Quiet luxury can sit this one out.