Moroccan Coats and Outerwear

1980S MICHAEL NOVARESE Black Haute Couture Silk Taffeta Duster Covered In Exceptional Embroidery & Beaded Gold Work

A rare and coveted Pleats Please by Issey Miyake dress from the collaboration with Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, Guest Artist Series No. 4, 1998. It can be worn as a dress or a jacket. The mind-boggling process of creating the design by sprinkling gunpowder onto the patterns and evoking a detonation is shown in the YouTube video above (an even more prolonged and more detailed version here). Asymmetrical cut, pleated throughout. Bat look shoulders and sleeves! 100% polyester. Made in Japan. A dress of this series is held by the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute archives. They state: "Miyake launched the Pleats Please Guest Artist Series in 1996. For the fourth collaboration in the series, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang used gunpowder explosions to burn images of dragons, a Chinese symbol for life, onto a group of finished white garments. To produce the line, Miyake adjusted the images for printing on flat fabric before cutting, sewing, and pleating." Kerry Taylor...

Rodarte 2016 Fur Coat in orange, white, black and yellow. Coat is in excellent condition. Fit size 2/4/6

Jean Paul Gaultier multi-pinstripe double-breasted coat has boned bodice on both front and back. The shoulders are padded. There are two pockets in front and also a breast pocket. Th...

Georgio Armani 'Black Label' Forest-Green versatile silk taffeta with a two-directional zipper, can be worn as a cocktail dress, or an evening coat. Adjustable drawstring hemline can...

Bill Blass/Bergdorf Goodman warm olive green double-faced 2-ply cashmere open car coat features two set-in pockets in front. The interior of the two front pockets are finished...

Sublime hand embroidered with sequins and beads evening coat. This special piece has 3/4 sleeves, a satin lining and closure is by a series of hook and eyes. Will go well with formal...

A fabulous Bernetti 1960s 2 piece evening ensemble: Citrine silk opera coat and column dress with extravagant hand-sewn beadwork and rhinestone embroi...

A gorgeous black moire full length opera coat. It has 15 round self covered buttons and loops closing up the front and an A line skirt portion. It is line...

Vintage Jean Paul Gaultier white jacket with orange sleeves has metal buttons, signature zipper toggles, patch pockets and clips in back for an adjustable fit.

Fall Winter 2003 Collection France Masterful black wool coat dress (look 14) by Julien MacDonald for Givenchy in 2003. Inspired by 18th century coats, the bottom is made of double black faille fabric covered with a wool felt with large black embroidered perforations. Tubular three-quarter sleeves, wide theatrical folded collar and coat crossing closed in front by hooks. Two side slits allow a felt belt to be passed through to curve the coat in front while freeing the volume at the back ending in a train, in the manner of the French Dresses! Black taffeta lining. No defects. Very good condition of color and conservation.  Dimensions: Equivalent size France 36-38. Front height 163 cm, back height with train 206 cm, shoulders 40 cm, chest 90 cm, waist 76-80 cm, sleeves 46 cm, hips 86-90 cm. Givenchy is part of one of the most famous French fashion house. Hubert de Givenchy, who worked with Elsa Schiaparelli, founded it in 1952. An admirer of Cristobal Balenciaga, he set up shop next to his master friend on Avenue Georges V in Paris in 1969. Hubert de Givenchy represented French chic throughout the world. Several institutions will celebrate his creations including The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 1982 and the Palais Gallièra in Paris in 1991. He retired in 1995 to be replaced by young British designers including John Galliano...

Circa 1938/1940 Paris France An Elsa Schiaparelli (attributed to) long black woolen coat embroidered by the Maison Lesage with large baroque volute patter...