Kaximil Women's Backless Sleeveless Ruched Mini Bodycon Dress, $16.99; amazon.
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Claire 100 Black Satin Pointy Toe Pumps with Ruched TPU, $1,195; jimmychoo.
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Elisabeth 100 Black Moire Knee High Boots with Ruched Tulle, $1,795; jimmychoo.
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Anne 100 Floral Printed Chisel Toe Pumps with Ruched TPU, $1,085; jimmychoo.
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Ashley Graham walked in a ruched floral-print dress with ruffled sleeves.
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"You don't wear strapless ruched chiffon on the regular," Ms. Eisenhart said.
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Avec Les Filles Ruched Sleeve Corduroy Bomber Jacket, $139, available at Nordstrom
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Keep scrolling for five of the best ruched dress dupes Amazon right now.
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Schuyler studied a mannequin in vampy boots and a chocolate-brown ruched minidress.
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Ali & Jay Women's Snapdraggon Long Sleeve Bodycon Ruched Short Mini Dress, $33.74–$90.71; amazon.
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Unlike Cinderella's gown, however, Middleton's dress had ruched fabric and a mermaid-style skirt.
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The costume even had the same belted waist and ruched neckline as Diana's ensemble.
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It can be elaborately beaded, patchworked and tailored; ruched and gathered and bias cut.
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Everything maternity, meanwhile, seems to be ruched, polka-dotted, or otherwise already dated and frumpy.
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Sarah Goldberg wore a sleek light-blue dress with ruched sleeves and a nipped waist.
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Although the original version features ruched sleeves, the Duchess of Sussex opted for a sleeveless option.
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She wore a Christopher John Rogers dress, which was sleeveless with a ruched ankle-length skirt.
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Obama showed off her personal style by pairing her ensemble with a pair of ruched boots.
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Her Rodarte x Universal Standard dress had a sweetheart neckline, ruched sleeves, and a ruffled skirt.
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Ruched velvet dresses and asymmetrical hems were also popular at the start of the 21st century.
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Lovato hit the AMAs red carpet wearing a strapless black gown with ruched details, plus sparkling jewelry.
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It featured a single strap across Lima's left arm, as well a ruched bodice and short train.
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For the event, she selected a light pink dress featuring ruched detailing and gold sequin-covered sleeves.
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Gigi wore a soft pink, ruched, floor-length gown with shoulder pads and metallic pink chainmail sleeves.
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She was wearing the same Tom Ford red ruched tulle dress that I wore for the interview.
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Those statement shoulders were balanced by airy ruffled and ruched skirts mostly cut to above the knee.
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Her red gown had bow-style sleeves, a ruched bodice, and skirt that extended into a short train.
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She walked the red carpet wearing a white Ralph & Russo gown with a single strap and ruched bodice.
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To put her best emoji foot forward, Moore wore a ruched-shoulder gown from Adeam's spring '17 collection.
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Back in Milan, Salvatore Ferragamo showed a stark white design with sleeves that were ruched to add dimension.
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Baldwin wore her blazer with a matching minidress, ruched boots, a small handbag, and lots of eye makeup.
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Evening gowns were ruched net columns stretched peekaboo-sheer over the rear with long, sequined sleeves for contrast.
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But it was the designer's ruched plastic looks in the brightest of colors that attracted the most attention.
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And in August, Beyoncé wore House of CB's $179 ruched off-the-shoulder wine and nude colored mini dress.
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Beyoncé's white Lanca Deep-V stretch-sateen bodysuit from Johanna Ortiz was accented with cap sleeves and ruched blouson bodice.
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Shayk, 31, showed off her legs in a ruched yellow gown with a high slit, topped with Lorraine Schwartz jewels.
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The dress comes with ruched side detailing as well as a wrap front look to accentuate all the right curves.
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The $848 suit, which features a ruched blazer with a daring front zip and cropped sleeves, has already sold out.
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This writer is a proud owner of the Faux Fur Ruched Throw and, yes, it lives up to the hype.
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The beauty YouTuber looked glamorous in the long-sleeved dress, which also had a V-shaped neckline and ruched skirt.
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"Tacos" are really deep-fried cups with a bubbled won ton texture and the ruched edges of a giant clamshell.
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The long sleeve dress featured a plunging neckline and a ruched center, as well as pieces of pink tulle underneath.
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The pregnant 33-year-old wore a curve-hugging, ruched mesh black dress with a fur coat sliding off her shoulders.
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The Queen of Motown took the stage in a V-neck draped black dress with ruched neckline and floor-grazing hem.
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She was known for her traditional, all-American wardrobe that featured vibrant colors, Kate Spade purses and ruffled and ruched dresses.
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But Ferretti returned to her traditional looks with ruched tops, pink overalls with knitted brassieres and short dresses in broderie anglaise.
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Also on September 27, Fergie draped a printed duster coat over a ruched black dress for a Paris Fashion Week event.
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The sleeveless dress perfectly showcased her baby bump, from its ruched ankle-length skirt to its vibrant purple-and-green hues.
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Kim Kardashian has hit the Met Gala pink carpet wearing a ruched beige dress with a wet effect by Thierry Mugler himself.
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Khloé opted for a ruched velvet gown, while Kourtney donned a tuxedo-inspired look and Kim wore a Celia Kritharioti ball gown.
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The off the shoulder dress featured a ruched silk satin chiffon bodice with voluminous ball gown skirt made of Italian Silk Kalika.
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Cabello's dress featured a plunging neckline and cutouts at the waist, as well as ruched fabric that extended down into a train.
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While leaving her hotel, the TV star was photographed wearing a ruched velvet dress with a single sleeve and thigh-high slit.
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The swimsuit features a gold chain halter strap as well as cascading gold chain detailing around the waist and a ruched thong back.
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She sported a flowing, long-sleeve white dress with a high, ruched neckline, while Gamble wore a casual white polo and blue shorts.
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In an Instagram Story, Jessica shared another photo of Sascha, 18, showing off the dress' ruched waistline and high slit along the leg.
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"Early Riser," she captioned the snap, which shows the 21-year-old sporting ruched and ruffled bathing suit bottoms and a body chain.
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Jenner sported a flowing, long-sleeve white dress with a high, ruched neckline, while Gamble wore a casual white polo and blue shorts.
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The paintings consist mainly of alternately bright or dark monochrome canvases that have been partly pulled off their stretchers, twisted, rumpled and ruched.
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Goddard's fanciful gowns, often constructed from hundreds of meters of ruched and ruffled tulle or cotton, are designed for twirling around a dance floor.
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Red—or, more exactly, scarlet—full length, from neck to ankle, allowing the sight of some ruched white linen at the wrists and throat.
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It has a mesh panel and ruched detailing that gives this one-piece the super flattering, form-fitting silhouette that reviewers can't stop raving about.
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"There's something comfortable about the dresses," she says of her creations, which don't have zippers but elasticated-ruched bodices that make them perfect for overindulgence.
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The Ruched and Ruffled Look: Dokotoo High-Waist Strapless Smocked Bikini Set The top of this girly suit could easily double as a festival-ready bandeau.
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What makes the otherwise covered-up (long-sleeve, floor-length) gown so sexy is the accentuated plunging neckline, waist-cinching ruched bodice and body-skimming fabric.
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The Fabulous Ways Cardi B Hid Her Baby Bump She also showed it off in a bump-accentuating ruched dress at the Billboard Latin Music Awards.
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I settled on wearing the Ruched Zip-Front Jacket, ($59), which served as the perfect warm-up gear thanks to the stretchy, almost compression-like material.
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And in 2015, she arrived to the "China: Through The Looking Glass" exhibit in a ruched red long-sleeve draped dress with gold belt and fringe earrings.
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This gorgeous ruched midi dress (perfect for a wedding), this chambray off-the-shoulder top and this flirty floral print skirt with a trendy asymmetrical ruffled hem.
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Leaving traditional bandage dresses behind, the most exciting, body-confident ways to do tight clothes for right now include classic ruched mesh and tweeds in luxe textures.
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The brown Fendi gown, which was almost entirely see-through, featured long sleeves, a high neckline, and ruched tulle, giving the "naked dress" trend a Victorian spin.
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And the recreation looks spot-on — it has the very '90s rounded bustier neckline, corset-style bodice and thigh-high slit with ruched skirt just like the original.
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Coan wore a ruched mini dress, but one anonymous woman standing behind them in one photo really stole the show in a hot pink suit and matching hat.
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Nicole: Beaufille Apollo Ruched Blouse, $710, available at Net-A-Porter; Levi's Altered Trucker Jacket, $98, available at Levi's; Levi's Altered Wide Leg Jeans, $128, available at Levi's.
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Nicole: Beaufille Apollo Ruched Blouse, $710, available at Net-A-Porter; Levi's Altered Trucker Jacket, $503, available at Levi's; Levi's Altered Wide Leg Jeans, $128, available at Levi's.
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And Kendall collaborated with Virgil Abloh on a custom Off-White off-the-shoulder ruched couture top with sheer elbow-length gloves and matching "long train" couture pants.
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Oddly, they also resembled clips from disparate films — one "Sunset Boulevard," another "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane," a third maybe "Mystic Pizza," via ruched taffeta dresses and leggings.
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Not only did Berry debut a longer, wavy hairstyle at the "Gothika" premiere, but she also wore a standout orange dress with a geometric top and ruched skirt.
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A ruched detail to her classic cropped pants, ruffled shoulders to a crew-neck sweater and floaty sleeves on a floral dress all add a hint of girlie personality.
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If you're like us and love rocking a cute mini dress for fall, then you're going to go crazy over the BTFBM ruched t-shirt mini Dress on Amazon.
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While Hemsworth, 28, rocked a classic black tuxedo and bow tie for the occasion, Cyrus made a statement in a glittery silver Moschino gown with zigzag pink ruched insert.
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Lucci models two different looks in the photos, wearing a plunging ruched one-piece with tie at the waist, and a more risqué black swimsuit with sexy side cutouts.
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Elaborately beaded vintage/Vegas butterfly capelets followed pinstripes; swagged and ruched velvets mixed it up with pouf miniskirts (remember those?) and crystal-encrusted bustiers cut with O-ring zippers.
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The British model Edie Campbell closed the show in a new rendition of the designer's signature: a pink cotton tiered dress with a ruched bodice and an open back.
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Hilaria, 32, showed off her baby bump in A Pea in the Pod's Isabella Oliver Sleeveless Ruched Maternity Maxi Dress, completing the look with an understated necklace and relaxed hairstyle.
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Just a week after announcing her pregnancy with her second child, Cotillard arrived at the show wearing a slouchy white dress (resembling a long crewneck style sweatshirt!), featuring ruched detailing.
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Joanne Froggatt also took the plunge in a Reem Acra column dress with a ruched sweetheart neckline with an invisible overlay to guarantee her night would be wardrobe malfunction-free.
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Donning a curve-hugging, black midi dress with ruched sides and sky-high platform sneakers, the expectant mom posed on what looked like a tennis court – before losing her balance.
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In the image, Williams — who is wearing the starlet ruched halter dress in light pink from her clothing line, Serena — struck a sultry pose while staring into an ornate mirror.
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Yohji Yamamoto's Victorian sportswear — suiting, athletic and otherwise, ruffled and ruched with taffeta, twisted into elegance — set to guitar tunes sung and strummed by the designer, had a singular charm.
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But the trend isn't reserved for the rich and famous — Amazon carries tons of affordable ruched dress options, some of which look just like the styles seen on Jenner and Ratajkowski.
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What the reviewers seem to love most, aside from the comfortable material and low price point, is how flattering the ruched detailing is across the midsection — no matter your body type.
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The silhouettes are similar to her last collection, but this time the diaphanous textiles are ruched and steamed before dyeing, and the shades vacillate between tones of blush, rust and rose.
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While leaving her hotel ahead of the event, she was photographed wearing a festive velvet dress, which was ruched from top to bottom with a single sleeve and thigh-high slit.
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Besides boasting a flattering ruched waist and flared skirt, the easy-breezy frock also features a hidden tummy control panel that adds a touch of compression without feeling tight or restrictive.
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The mom-to-be stepped out later that month for Dior's Paris Fashion Show, where she managed to keep her baby belly under wraps in a slouchy white dress, featuring ruched detailing.
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Gucci's shimmering electric blue dress, with oversized bows and a thigh-high hemline, looks good enough to eat, while Isa Arfen's ruched and gathered off-the-shoulder piece is a caramel delight.
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Olivier Rousteing of Balmain might as well be Olivier Kardashian — his specific aesthetic of beaded minidresses, ruched silk pencil skirts, and strong-shouldered jackets has become the uniform of the #WorldsMostTalkedAbout family.
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Using denim — faded, ruched and otherwise treated — as a toughened base, he merged it with the stuff of fashion frippery (lace, tulle, tartan, jacquard) in Delft-toned patchworks of eras and assumptions.
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The Baywatch star looked almost unrecognizable when she stepped out on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday wearing a navy blue ruched dress with a puffed neckline and sleeves.
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Kendall, 22, rocked an off-the-shoulder ruched couture top with sheer elbow-length gloves and matching "long train" couture pants designed for her by close friend, Off-White creative director Virgil Abloh.
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Just as eye-catching were tall boots in ruched leather and, as Proenza Schouler can always be counted on to create dynamism from head to toe, many of the models' slicked-back hair.
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As for what Kardashian did with all that feedback, she wore a completely sheer black minidress, ruched up the front from cleavage to mid-thigh, with drawstrings dangling all the way to her calves.
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Kendall wore a strapless Paule Ka gown with a ruched bodice and gathered skirt; she accessorized the look with matching snakeskin heels and the model accessory du jour, layers upon layers of glittery chokers.
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Kendall, 22, rocked an off-the-shoulder ruched couture top with sheer elbow-length gloves and matching "long train" couture pants designed for her by a close friend, Off-White creative director Virgil Abloh.
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The 57-year-old nominee chose a body-hugging silhouette that perfectly accentuates her insanely-toned figure, while the dress's black floral appliqués and slightly ruched sleeve gives the dark dress a romantic twist.
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Cotton was ruched and wrapped at the waist, to turn a shirtdress unexpectedly provocative, before things went a little too executive-in-the-space shuttle via reflective, metallic evening shifts in silver and quartz.
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James once created a dress ruched to resemble a Dalí-esque lobster at the height of 1930s Surrealism, and his later trussed abstractions of taffeta and wool recalled Constantin Brancusi's metal and stone objects.
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The 35-year-old actress looked stunning in a crimson Alberta Ferretti gown with ruched sleeves, that pregnancy glow, and statement accessories — namely, the custom Jennifer Behr gold headpiece she wore across her forehead.
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The cover of "Bella Donna," Stevie Nicks's first solo album, shows the artist looking slender and wide-eyed, wearing a white gown, a gold bracelet, and a pair of ruched, knee-high platform boots.
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Instead she stood proudly in a ballroom in Minneapolis in a black head wrap with matching dark nails, and a ruched striped jacket, glinting with shine, her hand raised in the air to declare victory.
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A camo baby-doll gown bubbled at the hem and ruched at the sleeves dipped low in front to reveal a lace bra and flounced out over skinny black leggings hemmed in silk-satin frills.
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Queen Bey dressed in a dark emerald green long-sleeve dress by Alexandre Vauthier that featured a plunging neckline and ruched detail at the bodice, as seen in photos from the wedding provided exclusively to Vogue.
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Ahead, you'll find the halter-top maillots, flirty ginghams, and ruched bottoms that will give you a chance to feel a little bit like Marilyn (or Audrey, or Grace, or Elizabeth) at the beach this summer.
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I can't get over the ruched detailing at the top of her dress and the soft ruffling from her back to the train (that went on for days) which gave her look a magical, girly touch.
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For an example of why that is necessary, consider Rochas, where Alessandro Dell'Acqua riffed on one note — pleated and ruched chiffon tea dresses in layers of sugary shades — for a collection too sweet to be satisfying.
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The brown ensemble, which was almost entirely see-through, gave the "naked dress" trend a new spin with a ruched tulle skirt, long sleeves, and high neckline that all looked straight out of the Victorian era.
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It copied a white Christian Siriano maternity dress Cardi B wore while performing on SNL (called the Cardi Party Ruched Dress), and it knocked off the Stella McCartney gown Meghan Markle wore to her wedding reception.
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Such as the high, ruched color, vaguely '80s aesthetic, and super high slit almost to the waist on this $1985 hot pink dress, paired with those neon purple spandex thigh-high boots serving almost as proxy pants.
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The professional skier showed up to the red carpet sporting a long-sleeved, plunging burgundy Stello dress with ruched details in the front and a high slit down the middle and David Yurman Starburst earrings with diamonds.
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For the award show, Britton stunned in a custom, floor-length Chrisitan Siriano gown, while Roberts wore a ruched one-shoulder Stella McCartney dress with a pleated skirt, plus skinny tuxedo trousers, black sandals and Chopard jewels.
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Close-fitting silhouettes, ruched flared trousers and layered looks, with tulle mini-dresses paired with silk-printed longer ones, designed by Artistic Director and Vice-President Donatella Versace, paraded down the catwalk in orange, violet and lime colours.
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The actress, 48, arrived to the Met Gala red carpet in a Valley of the Dolls-inspired pale yellow sheer pleated gown with high-neck ruched design that channeled a yellow ruffled dress seen in the 1967 campy hit.
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She showed off her post-baby body just 10 weeks after giving birth in another affordable find from House of CB. The off-the-shoulder ruched "Fifi" dress checks in at $179 and is still available in all sizes.
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Along with the exciting news, the expectant parents both shared a family photo that featured Gloria wearing a "Big Sister" t-shirt, while Grete, looking stunning in a tight pink ruched dress, held up a matching "Little Sister" onesie.
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Cate Blanchett and Michelle Williams went high runway in Louis Vuitton, Ms. Blanchett in a black leather breastplate over a black-and-white lace and silk collage dress, Ms. Williams in long ruched white mousseline covered in micro paillettes.
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Kardashian is currently six months along in her pregnancy — a tidbit she shared Tuesday on Instagram, posting a gorgeous snap showing off her baby bump in a curve-hugging, ruched mesh black dress with a fur coat sliding off her shoulders.
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Comprised of ombre fades and rainbow shades, which included vivid yellows, pinks, and blues; the selection featured luxurious semi-quilted shirts, knitted tunics with exaggerated, doughnut-shaped cuffs and necklines; a ruched bomber-jacket dress; and pieces with undulating hemlines.
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The ruched cocktail dress Sarah Jessica Parker wore in the Sex and the City movie and the gold beaded Giorgio di Sant'Angelo bodysuit Goldie Hawn wore on her iconic 1992 Vanity Fair cover were marked with signs declaring their significance.
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On hand for the launch of her new Fenty pop-up shop in New York City, the 31-year-old singer wowed in a magenta mini slip dress, featuring spaghetti straps and ruched sides that tied in a knot at the bottom.
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Nearly one month ago at the Met Gala, Jenner hit the red carpet with Abloh as her date wearing the off-the-shoulder ruched couture top and couture pants he designed for Off-White on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's iconic steps.
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I would show up to photo shoots and the offerings really looked like they were for mother of the bride … these kind of dresses that just ruched in a way that [looked like a] 65-year-old woman's evening gown or something.
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The ruched, form-fitting bodice ended in a waist-cinching cummerbund before cascading into a full ball-gown skirt, made even more extravagant with controlled waves of ostrich feathers and crystal embellishment throughout to give the dress that extra pop of sparkle.
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She walked the catwalk at the end of the show in a form-fitting ruched brown Dolce & Gabbana dress – just sheer enough to show off some of her Savage x Fenty merch – with lace-up heels and bedazzled red cat-eye sunglasses.
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Showing off Ms. Kamali's much-mythologized sleeping bag coats, ruched parachute dresses or fringed-and-feathered evening clothes, they had gathered at What Goes Around Comes Around, the fancy secondhand shop on West Broadway in SoHo, to commemorate the designer's half-century in business.
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One part comfort, two parts cover, it's turned up this year in myriad variations: ruffled and ruched or discretely pared down, long or abbreviated, plain as a chador or raucously patterned and colorful — but invariably shrouding the wearer from the neckline to the shin.
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Hidden in Giambattista Valli's pâtisseries — little black-and-white coquette dresses, often paired with corset belts in sheer tulle — were two of the weirder moments on a runway this season: a pair of black taffeta blouses, ruched and elaborate, atop … Nike dry-fit leggings.
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For the occasion — which marked her first Globes nomination in a television category, following eight nods and three wins in film categories since 1990 — Roberts wore a ruched one-shoulder Stella McCartney dress with a pleated skirt, plus skinny tuxedo trousers, black sandals and Chopard jewels.
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Jenner, 22, stepped onto the Metropolitan Museum of Art's iconic steps in N.Y.C. wearing an off-the-shoulder ruched couture top with with sheer elbow-length gloves and matching "long train" couture pants designed for her by her close friend Off-White creative director Virgil Abloh.
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A jacket with ruched fabric inspired by the idea of wearing a cloud, and a shirt with more than a hundred buttons and button holes made to be worn in different variations, will be among his first pieces shown on the schedule at London Fashion Week.
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Slouchy Turtleneck Sweater, $17.37 (originally $28.95) [You save $11.58]Ruched Sleeve Ruffle Faux Wrap Mini Dress, $19.77 (originally $32.95) [You save $13.18]A comfy sweater that goes with everything and a good dress that works for any occasion, formal or casual, are two of my closet essentials.
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Paramount among these would be Hailey Baldwin (now Bieber), who just stepped out to her bachelorette party — a mini all-gals bash before her South Carolina ceremony — looking every bit the bride in a white strapless ruched dress, a micro veil, and a sparkling lavender manicure.
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VIDEO: Ariel Winter Defends Showing Off Her Breast Reduction Scars at the SAG Awards Just the other day, Winter was spotted with a white two-piece swimsuit that featured a gold chain halter strap as well as cascading gold chain detailing around the waist and a ruched thong back.
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Related Video: Kylie Jenner Posts a Faith Restoring Selfie But in her latest campaign for Nip + Fab, the teen showed off a much more sophisticated side to her style, eschewing her tried and true see-through favorites, and instead going for a nude, curve-hugging ruched Misha Collection Sabina dress.
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The chef, Hui Qiang Liu, from Guangzhou in southern China, has a steady hand with classics: translucent har gow with tidy pleats and open-mouthed siu mai in ruched collars, dense turnip cakes and slippery cheong fun, char siu bao with cracked smiles and baked pork buns as shiny as brioche.
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At last year's "Heavenly Bodies" themed Met Gala, the supermodel strutted up the iconic Metropolitan Museum of Art's steps in an off-the-shoulder ruched couture top with with sheer elbow-length gloves and matching "long train" couture pants designed for her by her close friend, Off-White creative director Virgil Abloh.
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As the Baywatch reboot hits theaters this weekend — featuring a cameo by Anderson — here's a look back at her biggest moments: New Look The star looked almost unrecognizable when she walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival last week wearing a navy blue ruched dress with a puffed neckline and sleeves.
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Offered in a multitude of fabrics and styles (ruched, draped, beatnik black knit), they appeared as trompe l'oeil bustier tops in 1950s frocks paired with those long full skirts, most often fabricated from technical jacquard or taffeta, so while they looked heavy they were light enough to practically float around the body.
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There were pencil skirts galore this time around, too — ruched tight at the thigh or flyaway at the hem, flashing just a bit of lingerie lace, like a promise, at the knee — under strong-shouldered faux crocodile suit jackets, all worn with metal spike heels, all often caught at the waist by tough leather corsets.
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From sequin sweatshirt dresses splashed with a leaping panther to billowing caftan gowns, Lurex-embroidered silks cut long and flowing at the back and thigh-high at the front, faded denim mixed with leopard fur and fussy ruched taffeta or sheer cocktail frocks trailing long neon bright bows at the back, he's been here before.
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The second white shirt I acquired (and still own) was an exaggerated spiritual successor to the first, a piece by the designer Viktor Luna that looked part-clothing item, part-bug skeleton, with huge, ruched sleeves that stood up by the sheer power of their formidable design and towered high above my own relatively small shoulders.
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The spring '17 runways saw the color worn in every shade, from fuchsia and rose to peach and magenta: Balenciaga paired ruched raspberry with lavender, while Valentino opted for a block color-clash against red; Chloé served its signature dusty hue, and Rihanna's Fenty x Puma collaboration showed just how nicely carnation and amaranth suits silky sportswear.
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Also Altuzarra, where Joseph Altuzarra mixed pleated leather pants with swishy one-shouldered tunic-and-trouser sets, and metallic floral cocktail dresses ruched around the body à la old Ungaro, and Haider Ackermann, whose sharp-edged tailoring for both women and men in black, white and red, has the high-gloss allure of the eternally chic.
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For posies, as well as leopard print, ruched sheaths, velvet trouser suits, robot appliqués, animal-costume chubbies (don't be a cuddly puma, wear one instead!), elaborately embroidered denim, spaceman-in-the-sky-with-roses prints, puppy prints, tuxes of all types, corsetry, and a gold Lurex crocheted minidress with hearts all over, there was Dolce & Gabbana.
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There were bright red blanket plaids; ornately toggle-fastened stadium coats; ruched necklines right out of "Little House on the Prairie"; and sweaters patterned with the faces of mythical creatures said to have been inspired by Haida totem poles, though they looked closer to the lolling-tongued Tibetan demons Alessandro Michele plastered all over his Gucci collection last June.
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Sporting details and materials were mixed with millennial business suiting: leggings worn under a double-breasted belted blazer; billowing nylon Wonder Woman coats trimmed in crystals; sheath dresses in primary shades shaped by ruched drawstring pulls into curvilinear forms, and black pantsuits (well, there had to be a few) sliced by a knife-edge curve of color from shoulder to thigh.
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Risso spent his formative years at Prada, so the resemblance is understandable), which morphed into floral silks ruched up the sides and tied by multiple skinny strings that dangled hither and yon, which transitioned into contrasting graphic prints, which finally took the form of cellophane sheaths with the texture of Bubble Wrap (actually made of a Japanese silk nylon) sprinkled with silvery paillettes.
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She's also the one responsible for this Giorgio Armani moment at the SAG Awards, dressing Millie to match the carpet she walked in on in a candy apple red column gown with a ruched neckline, lace cap sleeves, and a crimson rope belt knotted at her waist, all finished off with a delicate bejeweled Jennifer Behr headband and an Edie Parker clutch covered in hearts.
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Also the glittering tunics with a tailcoat dip in the back over narrow mosaic skirts, L.B.D.s (lengthy black dresses) bristling a feather ruff at the shoulders and neck and exploding at the hem, elaborately pleated and gathered taffeta frocks, and emerald-trimmed duchesse-satin dresses — all worn over thigh-high black ruched suede boots and matching shoulder-length fingerless gloves, and topped by towering curled pompadours.
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Though Millie Bobby Brown is the newly minted face of Calvin Klein by Appointment, for tonight's ceremony she opted for Giorgio Armani, matching the carpet she walked in on in a candy apple red column gown with a ruched neckline, lace cap sleeves, and a crimson rope belt knotted at her waist, all finished off with a delicate bejeweled Jennifer Behr headband and an Edie Parker clutch covered in hearts.
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Over the base of simple white jeans or shorts and a white singlet were layered ruched and ruffled taffeta tops (only they weren't taffeta, they were polyester made from recycled plastic that looked like taffeta); big, explosive skirts, in Old Dutch florals or graphic swirls, tiered and frilled and hiked up on the side to show the cool beneath or left to billow grandly behind (all 130 feet or so of fuchsia).
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At Fashion Week, we were delivered multiple doses of inspiration: Alexa Chung hosted a magical, starry night-themed bash, with sweetheart-neck silver dresses that took us back to prom night; Molly Goddard dressed models in her signature frothy pieces, with tea party-style frocks getting a touch of sequins; king of glitter Ashish delivered the most mood-lifting of parties, with positive slogans on rainbow-striped numbers; and Saint Laurent's party was hard-edged and high-shine, with ruched vinyl pieces matching its slouch boots.
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True to form, in a presentation titled "Hunting" and shown under black lights in a friend's apartment hung with a huge Gilbert & George work and decorated to look like a forest, the Spanish designer sent out a giddy assortment of his frilly, sometimes feminine, often historicist, always ornamented and minimally concealing designs for brocade chaps, opera cloaks, sleeveless jerkins with shoulder ruffles, peekaboo lace surplices, trailing gowns (yes, for men), velvet lounge suits, tunics resembling chain mail, marabou-trimmed tabarro capes and ruched velvet bloomers from which the models' skinny hairy legs protruded obscenely.
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