Few have been more intimately involved with the Cashmere Collections over the years than Farley Chatto. Whether as a designer participant or Artistic Director, this Regina-born Torontonian always brings the creative elegance that has garnered him a global clientele. As he embarked on his contribution to Cashmere 2020, Farley found out that two friends are going through chemotherapy for cancer. So Cashmere’s decades-long commitment to breast cancer research & awareness was top of mind.

Farley Chatto calls his extraordinarily elaborate Cashmere Collection Ball gown “tuxedo meets Marie Antoinette.” The luxurious components: a peplum-ed tuxedo-style courtier’s jacket; a classic pleated shirt with lacy sleeves; an oversized pink chiffon “bow tie”; and a dramatically pannier-ed, 7 feet-wide (!) ballroom skirt with abundant ruffled and trellis-ed detailing. The pièce de résistance: silvery Valkyrie wings in the laser-cut metallic mask studded with Swarovski crystals.

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