Y's Yohji Yamamoto Short Brown Lace Up Jacket

Lightweight navy blue cotton zip-front cropped jacket has two slit front pockets and a belted collar.

Long black cotton jacket with gorgeous cutout lace panel detailing along the waist and back. This elegant jacket comes from Y's by Yohji Yamamoto. Single hook and eye closure.

Rich navy Comme des Garçons fitted jacket features an asymmetrical hem that falls to hip-length in front, but cropped in back falling just to mid-back. Easy hook and eye closure in ...

This structured and cropped black Comme des Garçons jacket is contstructed of heavy cotton and features a single breast pocket and dazzling metallic trim detailing along the hemline.

This black vest from Maison Martin Margiela is a soft cotton flannel. Easy fastening with a snap front and buckle and strap in back to personalize the fit.

This short-waisted shirt jacket in playful bright shades of blues, greens, and yellow comes from vintage Matsuda, Yukio Kobayashi. Easy styling with a v-neck and front buttons.

Rare Schiaparelli Haute Couture Mandarin Black Quilted Faille Cape, 1951 Amazingly chic and modern quilted silk faille Haute Couture cape by Elsa Schiaparelli from the 1950's. M...

Schiaparelli Haute Couture Changeant Faille Jacket, 1938-39. "France gave me the inspiration: America gave me the approval" Elsa Schiapa...

"In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous" Elsa Schiaparelli,1930's. "Life has changed so much, A Schiaparelli was never made for the streets." Karl Lagerfeld, 1970's. 2 quotes,2 designers, 4 decades apart. 4 decades later. Although these quotes are highly debatable, especially in the context of today's high-low designer collabs and pop up retailing, iconic fashion endures. Whether now relegated to a museum exhibition, a collector's acid free box or a celebrity one nighter, these fashion artifacts from the french Haute Couture of the 1930's echo a time, pace and culture unrecognizable to most people today. Schiaparelli changed the definition of what it meant to be a designer at an important time in the evolution of the Haute Couture. Rather than simply making beautifully elegant garments (which she also did), she focused on the concepts behind the pieces. For her fashion was a fluid medium and she effortlessly blended fashion, politics and the fine arts. She was one of the most innovative and rebellious designers of the period working against what she considered the stale fashion currents of the day. She was elegant yet untrained. As a protege of Poiret, she gained entry into the world of Parisian fashion. While her rival Chanel was essentially uneducated and a “primitive” in the artistic circles in which she socialized, Schiaparelli’s impeccable social credentials as the daughter of an old and distinguished Roman family gave her a relatively easy entree into Paris society. She was a subversive, a punk, a desecrator, a collaborator, an innovator as well as the ultimate insider whose plans on design domination and creating "la zone rose" for the modern world were cut short by the advent of WWII. She was at the height of her influence and power showing 4 iconic collections in the last years of the decade. Fascinating to consider what the House of Schiaparelli could have brought forth in the following decades had the world not been swept away in turmoil at that moment. In the context of her short prewar career, few remaining masterworks have survived. The rare "moment" she created in the 30's lives on within each art piece, safelocked away within each stitch and sequin. Each design retains her spirit and legacy as a free thinking, modernist rebel who used the avantegarde as her platform in the most creative period of fashion design in the 20th Century. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rare and Important Elsa Schiaparelli Haute Couture...

Chanel blue jacket Cruise 2013 - Versailles gardens - Look 35/71 on the show Jacket in blue cotton with central front zip, mandarin collar. White s...

CHANEL Spring 2009 - Look 49/71 on the show Black bolero jacket Size FR 36 Made in France 56% polyester 25% silk 19% a...

FAUSTO PUGLISI Black leather biker jacket with large golden studs and crystals 100% Leather 100% Silk lining 100% Polyurethane padding Size IT40 Made...