We’re not sure how often ITV’s This Morning’s viewers get it right but with the John Lewis red party dress, they’re pretty close to the mark. The dress was a part of the show’s collaboration with John Lewis to search for the nations perfect party dress in the run up to the Christmas festivities, and the winning design was submitted by an ICT teacher from Birmingham.
Stephen Arthur is the unexpected design genius behind the flowing red party dress. The stylish floor-length ball gown is cut in red chiffon, leaving the shoulders uncovered to create a long and slender silhouette. The crossover waist to neckline train embellishments take the attention upwards, and the drawn in waist builds on the elegant length of the rippled skirt.
The competition saw Stephen making the dress from his initial design, putting it together for a catwalk show and window dressing it for the show’s judges, but it was the Great British public that voted the dress the winner.
Available online from John Lewis, the red party dress will also be on sale at John Lewis stores on Oxford Street and in Solihull. To cap it all off, £20 from the sale of each and every dress will be donated to Cancer Research UK, so you get to look amazing as well as getting a warm Christmassy feeling of giving.
A good set of heels and simple necklace and earrings are all you’ll need to finish off the sophistication of the perfect party dress.
Maybe we’ll see more from the newly found fashion design talent of Stephen Arthur in the future.
I think it is fantastic that nowadays the party dress was not designed as short, and revealing and focused towards the young teen generation. you can look great and sophisticated in not too revealing a dresss.