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1960s Tiziani Couture by Karl Lagerfeld Black and Ivory Needlepoint Mod Jacket

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Remarkably, Karl Lagerfeld has not always been renowned. His early work for Italian label Tiziani Roma portends his legendary design career as exampled by this mod jacket. A skillful blend of op-art and handcraft, one can easily imagine this 1960s era jacket with a black skirt and toque hat. However, the contemporary details persuade even the keenest observer into thinking that it is fresh. The lapels are expertly fashioned to maximize the rigid geometry of the black and white needlepoint pattern, leaving a solid outline of white along its edge. Beautifully handset sleeves provide the perfect balance of ease and confidence, and black buttons have been meticulously placed in alignment with the pattern. Providing a crisp but gentle fit, the jacket’s minimal style lines can be paired with anything from wide-leg trousers to skinny jeans. This jacket embodies Lagerfeld’s innate ability to transform the mundane into fashion envy. Size estimate: XS/S Measurements: Shoulders: 14.5 inches Sleeves: 23 inches bust: 34 inches waist: 28 inches hips: 36 inches length: 24 inches This vintage 1960s hip-length jacket by Karl Lagerfeld is in excellent condition. Made from a unique black and white needlepoint fabric, the geometric repeat is carefully matched at all junctures, providing continuity throughout. All hems are carefully planned to allow for white and even edging. The sleeves are set by hand, forming a beautifully rounded shoulders. Dimensional black buttons provide excellent visual weight to this center front opening. Fully lined in white satin. Professionally cleaned and pressed. High-quality vintage pieces like this are yours to live in and love while increasing in value every year. It’s never too soon to start collecting them, as an investment in your wardrobe—and in yourself. - Follow us on Instagram @BASHAGOLD

Designer:

Karl Lagerfeld

Brand:

Tiziani

Dimensions:

Length: 23 in (58.42 cm)Marked Size: small (US)Bust: 34 in (86.36 cm)Waist: 28 in (71.12 cm)Hip: 36 in (91.44 cm)

Style:

mod (In the Style Of)

Period:

1960-1969

Material Notes:

cotton, needlepoint, buttons, mod, op-art

Condition:

Excellent.

Seller Location:

Boca Raton, FL

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU73013124972

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Karl Lagerfeld

More than a mere tastemaker, Karl Lagerfeld devoted himself to the continual pursuit of chic. “My life and my job,” the designer once said, “is to forget myself.” During his five-decade career designing shoes, handbags, evening dresses and other items for Chanel, Fendi, Chloé and many others, Lagerfeld was a quintessential chameleon, ever evolving to embody the times.

An outsize, instantly recognizable personality — his ponytail powdered like an 18th-century viscount, his eyes perpetually shielded by dark glasses, wearing fistfuls of chunky silver jewels — Lagerfeld was, above all, an avatar of style.

Born in Hamburg (in 1933, ’35, or ’38 by varying accounts), Karl Lagerfeld packed his bags for Paris in 1954. His design for a coat won him the International Wool Secretariat and landed him a job with the celebrated couturier Pierre Balmain. He went on to become the designer of Jean Patou, eventually realizing that his seemingly endless ideas could fuel a career as a designer-for-hire. As such, Lagerfeld lent his vision to everyone from Loewe and Max Mara to Krizia and Charles Jourdan, nimbly moving among a diverse range of styles. It was an unprecedented way of working in the days when freelance was still a dirty word.

During the late ’60s and ’70s, he refashioned Chloé to reflect the free spirit of the day and, beginning in 1965, joined forces with the Fendi family, taking it from sleepy furrier to fashion’s haute-est stratum. Because of his track record for reviving and reimagining brands that had grown stagnant, in 1983 Lagerfeld was handed the reins at Chanel, which had been gathering dust since its founder’s heyday.

From Lagerfeld's first Chanel collection, he injected the venerable house with a frisson of modernity. He riffed on its iconography — tweed skirt suits, pearls, camellias — accenting a lexicon of Chanel-isms with tastes of the moment. Despite producing eight collections a year for Chanel, as well as four to five for Fendi, Lagerfeld never faltered in proposing new ideas each time he put pencil to paper.

Lagerfeld’s collections for Chanel, in particular, displayed his knack for synthesizing old and new, high and low. From Watteau (Spring/Summer 1985 couture) and Serge Roche (Spring/Summer 1990 ready-to-wear) to hip-hop fly girls (Fall/Winter 1991 ready-to-wear), surfers (Spring/Summer 2003 ready-to-wear) and ancient Egypt (Pre-Fall 2019), Lagerfeld used each season’s inspiration to conceive Chanel’s signatures anew.

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