Help with dating dress and determining designer

Could someone please help with a proper name for this style of dress and an perhaps who could have designed it? I have been searching the internet for 3 days trying to find a similar style for what I believe to be a 1960 formal dress (based on colour, placement of the metal zipper and the overall look of the dress)

It was found in a vintage/estate clearing shop in Switzerland, the label says Grieder - a former silk manufacturing company and store and now an exclusive department store in Switzerland.

This is how I would describe it:

It is a vintage evening gown in heavy yellow taffeta with separate sash with tassels, two front pockets. Handmade. The amount of fabric used to make the dress is insane, and it really consists of three full shirts; one is the actual (wiggle style) dress and the other two make up the front and back of the skirt, all the skirts are lined in chiffon silk, even the ones just functioning as sheats. . The skirts are weighed down by round metal pieces sewn into the hem.
The sash is separate and can be worn in different ways or not at all.
It has a label inside saying Grieder Modéle. I found information on Christie’s that that type of label were put in dress from a designer when they were sold exclusively by a store, so I don’t think that this means that this dress was made and designed by Grieder, but designed by someone else and sold at Grieder.
I would appreciate any thoughts you might have on this dress.
Ditte

 

I suggested that you post your gown here for info. I am glad that you did.

 

Hello,

That is an outstanding gown. While I actually have no idea of who designed your gown, it reminds me very much of Balmain, particularly his work in the mid to late 1950s.

Wow.

 

Thank you.

Hi Midge,

I wrote them (Bongenie Grieder) via instagram to see if they can be of any help.
Grieder donated docoments to a museem in Zurich, so it might be worth contacting them, they would maybe be able to determine which era from the label and also find out which designers were sold at Grieder at that time.
I am gutted that the dress is too big for me, it would have been a keeper .
Here’s the label.

 

Thank you! It is is a beautiful gown, I agree. I have been looking at ‘vintage midcentury ball gowns’, I might start googling designers next .

 

I am glad too, thank you for thanking the time to reply, both here and on facebook.
I actually follow you on Instagram, what a small world .

 

You are welcome. Yes, small world, indeed.

 

Have you looked through the skirt seams for any other tags?

 

Stunning gown! Agree with a '60s date. You can see that it's beautifully made.

As you say, the dress is too big for you, which is distorting the silhouette and making it harder to see the shape but it looks to be a classic fitted bodice, formal shift dress from the time, and similar styles were made by many designers but the triple skirt is more unusual. The sash is probably meant to be worn as a stole, over your shoulders and arms. The colour is amazing.

 

I thought so too, but The sash has a hook and eye (70 cm apart) and can’t really be worn any other way. But I am no expert in 50/60s fashion so I could easily have styled it wrong.
I believe that you are right that the bodice is meant to be fitted and the skirt layers to fall straight.

 

I have and I can’t see any other labels. I might not have been thorough enough so I’ll try again.

 

This is what I found. https://amsquery.stadt-zuerich.ch/Dateien/0/D3718.pdf
My German is so so. You might be able to help me?

 

I am in Basel so it is only an hour away. I will have to contact someone there tomorrow .

 

The metal zipper says ‘bSc’ onthe back.