Tuleh Gold brocade Coat Dress

Opulent mocha brown brocade evening coat by Montaldo's c 1960s The elegant opera coat is designed with thick structured brocade panels The luminous mocha brown brocade fabric is illu...

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...

Evening dress / coat by Yves Saint Laurent! Wonderful silhouette! With shoulder pads! Black & diamond look bottons! Zipper at the sleeves. You can wear it as a dress or on a light dr...

Jean Lutece vintage 1960s black silk double breasted coat (or coat dress) with black rhinestone and seed bead embellishment at collar and cuffs. Raw silk features natural slubbing th...

Circa 1920/1930 French Haute Couture Rare CollectibleHaute Couture coat or kaftan of evening / interior labelled by Chéruit Wormser and Boulanger, 21 place Vendôme Paris. Black woo...

Amazing bordeaux/red velvet gold brocade gown We offer more exclusive vintage items, view our frontstore Details: Red velvet embroidered with ...