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Hermes Tattoo Collier De Chien 24 Bracelet T3 Blanc/Soleil/Bleu NEW
By Hermès
Located in New York, NY
Hermes Tattoo Collier De Chien 24 Bracelet T3 Blanc/Soleil/Bleu
NEW with box
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21st Century and Contemporary Sculptures
Chanel Black Tennis Racket With Leather X Chain CC Cover NEW
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
Chanel black tennis racket with leather CC cover
Cover has chains in the back to carry the racket ,it has 2 snap closure on the side to slide and hold racket in.Huge box, dust-bag ,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Games
Limited edition Chanel Factory 5 Bundle Water Bottle 4 Pieces NEW
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
100% guaranteed brand new never used Chanel Factory 5 set total off 4 pieces + booklet that came with this collection
Please see pictures off whats i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Decorative Objects
Chanel Blanket Throw Travel Rug NEW 74" X 55"
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
Chanel travel rug, throw or blanket
New with Chanel dust-bag and tags
Two different sides with large CC
Approximate measure: 74' X 55"
FINAL SALE
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21st Century and Contemporary Pillows and Throws
DIOR X DANIEL ARSHAM FUTURE RELIC Limited Edition Eroded Clock XX/100 NEW
By Christian Dior
Located in New York, NY
Summer 2020 Men’s show, Daniel Arsham has transformed Christian Dior’s atelier clock into a functional sculpture.
Eroded in several places as if ravaged by time, this veritable work of art emblazoned with the Dior signature reveals cracks pierced with quartz crystals.
Each Future Relic is housed in a custom DIOR...
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21st Century and Contemporary Clocks
Vintage CHANEL Light Decor
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Chanel light in working condition
Approximate length 13"
Came from store that used to sell Chanel cosmetics
Not too heavy, border frame se...
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21st Century and Contemporary Decorative Objects
Coco Mademoiselle Chanel Doll Designed By Karl Lagerfeld 2010
By Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Chanel
Located in New York, NY
100% Authentic guaranteed Chanel designed by Karl Lagerfeld.
Each doll has slightly different face because they where all handmade.
Chanel Mademoiselle doll was designed by Karl Lagerfeld For Chanel windows and given as gift to special clients.
Not every window that season had this doll displayed...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Decorative Objects
CHANEL Large Size Advertising Allure Perfume Display Vintage Mint
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
Chanel large size advertising display with Allure perfume bottles.
Excellent mint condition.
Sides can be closed up.Thick cardboard frame with pictures inserted between clear plastic and 4 Allure factice bottles...
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21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Decorative Objects
Coco Chanel Perfume Advertisement Large Sign Featuring Ines De La Fressange 1985
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
Coco Chanel Perfume Advertisement Large Sign Featuring Ines De La Fressange 1985.
Very rare and impossible to find ,one of a kind sign.
Could be used for home decor.
Sign is plug ...
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1980s Miscellaneous
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Chanel Blu and Gold Hardware Bracialet
By Chanel
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Chanel bracelet in golden hardware with blue crystals.The bracelet is 23.5 cm long. It has a spring ring closure.The conditions of the bracelet are great with slight signs of wear.
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1990s French Clocks
Couture MartinMargiela 1998 WorkOnPaper & Artisanal Line0 WhiteLingerie BoxedSet
By Maison Martin Margiela, Martin Margiella
Located in Chicago, IL
As conceptual art while he transitioned to Hermes Creative Director in 1998, Belgian Martin Margiela--whose creations today debut in the setting of a contemporary-art gallery priced at upwards of EU$150,000--created this stenciled or block print. Conceived by arguably the most culturally influential contemporary fashion designer since Gabriel "Coco" Chanel, it is part of a limited-edition-of-two white-boxed set that includes the couture Maison Martin Margiela "Artisanal Line 0" body-harness lingerie in its maker's signature color white for Spring 1998.
The same lingerie--one white and the other black--starred in a film made by Margiela among the five that he screened to present his Spring/Summer 1998 "Flat Collection" in Paris at the Conciergerie. In that film titled "4", which begins with a view of the iconic topless tabi "boots", the hands of Margiela's white-labcoat-clad assistants enter the frame to manipulate different garments on a model who initially wears the exterior lingerie (see our photos) as if jewelry. A simple dark collared coat, a white collared button-down shirt, and a dark button-down cardigan--all with the "displaced neckline" or "displaced shoulder" of the flat-hanging clothes--are transformed into new collarless plunging v-neck garments, which appear to be ruched when folded under the harness of the lingerie.
Both black versions of the lingerie are in museum collections. In Martin Margiela's home-country, the ModeMuseum (MoMu) archived its collected piece as OBJ7660. In the 2018 Parisian retrospective exhibition at Musee de la Mode/Palais Galleria when its artistic director was Martin Margiela (working with Curator Alexandre Samson), the second black lingerie was featured on a mannequin and collected the same year by the Vogue Paris Foundation. Other conceptual designs from this same 1998 collection of jewelry were acquired by TheMet museum in Manhattan.
Without the restriction of the use and function of clothing, the small uncreased print--on a card that can be removed from the interior-box bottom that it loosely spans--shows the buyer how to endlessly fashion unique tops using the structural-elastic lingerie as an undergarment for their own pre-worn button-down shirts.
This is a more obvious example of the once avant-garde concept of anti-fashion upcycling that Martin Margiela introduced to challenge social and fashion-industry norms by the 1990s, which echos the revolutionary anti-art of Marcel Duchamp. Essentially, valuable art/fashion can be made from everyday vintage objects. While Duchamp did so in 1917 with a men's porcelain urinal titled "Fountain" attached to a gallery exhibition wall, they both made the point that it is the way that such items are reassembled that can make the result a progressive statement.
What makes the print so special and worthy of framing for display is that, without words, the three numbered images on a single white card encapsulate the before-its-time fashion manifesto of Martin Margiela to recycle fashion in remarkable new wearable ways, such as harnessed by his unique lingerie. According to The New York Times in its 2021 feature-story that reflected on his radical fashion design and delved into his crossover art, Margiela "changed how we dressed in the 1990s", while his art embodies "the visionary man he has always been."
At a turning-point shortly after Margiela designed this couture set in 1997, his personal manifesto became more difficult to accomplish in his fashion career as the new leader of France's historic luxury fashion-house Hermes, for which his first womenswear collection was presented for Autumn/Winter 1998. Frustrated by the limitations of the industrialized luxury trade and conglomerate conflicts with his closely guarded privacy, the famously "invisible" designer pre-maturely retired from the fashion industry in 2009 to independently build on his clever artistry in other mediums. Margiela continues to demonstrate what he often told his fashion teams: "The less you have, the more creative you are as a designer."
This minimal finely-crafted lingerie without size or gender restriction--composed of adjustable "polya-elasthanne" straps with a clear anti-slip strip on the underside and three silver-plated metal double-rings--can be worn either as a concealed structural undergarment or as a visible jewelry-like body harness in appreciation of its meaning as a foundation for recycling fashion, pure form, and meaningful color. While the initial Maison Martin Margiela ready-to-wear brand tag until the late 1990s was a distinct corner-sewn unbranded white label accompanied by tags for origin and materials/care, the couture version for this lingerie is a single tiny white unbranded tag stitched in a line near the end of the waist strap, noting in English, "Made In France," with succinct material/care identification.
The set's original white unbranded box and its white black-typed couture-identification sticker complete the "invisible-brand" aesthetic. We interpret the black-type codes on the aged box-sticker (“E98 ST HAUT; Struct Elas Blanc; 02; TU"): Spring 1998 Haute Couture; white structural-elastic garment; Artisanal Line 0 edition of two; one size only.
The print, lingerie and box are in very good condition as shown in the photos with only one mark on the rear edge of the exterior box-lid. Although initially tried on by the sole owner to realize a restructured shirt, the lingerie body-harness was never worn. It was collected in Belgium at the Brussels boutique where Martin Margiela initially sold his brand with his founding business-partner Jenny Meirens since 1988.
Prior, Margiela worked for several years as a fashion-design assistant to Parisian Jean Paul Gaultier. Both designers have since received independent museum retrospectives internationally--from Paris' Grand Palais and Musee Palais Galliera (The City of Paris Fashion Museum) to NYC's The Brooklyn Museum and Antwerp's MoMu. While others continue to try, Martin Margiela (b.1957) is the only leading fashion designer to have made a full-time transition to the commercial contemporary-art world with such highly valued works.
As a rare revealing piece of both fashion and art history, the increasing value of this Maison Martin Margiela 1997...
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1990s French Sculptures
Size: TU one size only
New Mark Cross Red Saffiano Leather Game Set Travel Playing Cards Notepad & Pen
By Mark Cross
Located in Port Saint Lucie, FL
Looking for a unique gift idea? This red saffiano leather travel playing card game set fits the bill. Made in Italy for Mark Cross, the set includes the brilliant red leather game c...
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1990s Italian Games
HERMÈS AVALON III THROW BLANKET Marine & Khaki
By Hermès
Located in London, GB
Hermès Avalon III throw blanket in Merinos wool and cashmere (90% Merino wool, 10% Cashmere)
Marine & Khaki
Made in Great Britain
Di...
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2010s Pillows and Throws
Ceramic Piggy Bank from Tiffany & Co.
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in Glasgow, GB
White and blue ceramic piggy bank from Tiffany & Co. Cute bunny shaped money bank crafted by Este Ceramiche in Italy and hand painted in the labels signature Tiffany blue and white w...
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2010s Italian Ceramics
HERMÈS AVALON THROW BLANKET Écru & Potiron
By Hermès
Located in London, GB
Hermès Avalon throw blanket in Merino wool and cashmere (90% Merino wool, 10% Cashmere)
Ecru/Poitron
Made in Great Britain
Dimensions: L...
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2010s Pillows and Throws
Limited Edition Chanel Basketball
By Chanel
Located in London, GB
As seen on Kylie Jenner, this unique Basketball was crafted in 2004 from charcoal black synthetic rubber. Showcasing the brand's iconic interlocking 'CC' logo with contrasting off-wh...
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Early 2000s Games
Fendi Vintage Black Lucite Poker Set
By Fendi
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Stunning Luxury Fendi Beautiful Authentic Vintage POKER GAME, playing cards set with black lucite box, original bridge card set with chips, dices and 2...
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21st Century and Contemporary Games
HERMÈS AVALON THROW BLANKET Écru & Gris Fonce
By Hermès
Located in London, GB
Hermès Avalon Throw Blanket in Merinos wool and cashmere (90% Merino wool, 10% Cashmere)
Écru & Gris Fonce
Made in Great Britain
Dimensi...
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2010s Pillows and Throws
Hermès 24 Cards Horse Riding Theme Western Texas Spirit Memory Game
By Hermès
Located in FR
Beautiful Authentic Hermès Memory Game
Print: Texan spirit, Horse Riding theme, Western, Rodeo
Includes 12 pairs of cards, for a total of 24 cards
The same drawing is found on 2 c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Games
Hermes Samarcande Chess Set Sycamore Mahogany Crocodile Handles New w/ Box
By Hermès
Located in Miami, FL
Mightychic offers an Hermes Samarcande Chess Set.
Composed of Natural Sycamore and Mahogany wood.
Beautiful contrasting wood pieces.
Gorgeous Bleu El...
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2010s French Games
Hermès New Set 2 Poker Decks In Box
By Hermès
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Hermes brand new in box, set of 2 "geometric" Poker Playing Cards with 55 cards. Silver edges cards. Made in France. Comes with original box and ribbon.
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