Monse deconstructed sleeveless jacket from the Pre-Fall 2019 collection

Relaxed chic knitted tailcoat jacket from the Chanel Resort 2011 Paris-St Tropez collection. unworn. Made from a smooth black viscose/polyester mix ...

Super cool blazer meets bomber jacket from Givenchy. bought for £2950 and unworn with all tags. Has a classic smooth navy wool tailored blazer body with lined button fastening, stro...

Utterly exquisite, dream Chanel tweed jacket - from the Fall 2015 15K Collection. Look 69 on the runway. Bought for £8500 and new with fabric swatches and spare buttons. Superbly cra...

Super cool, futuristic Chanel black jacket from the Spring 2012 collection. Unworn. Made from mid weight black polyester mesh with satin trims. It has working black zips to the sho...

The most amazing, work of art jacket from the iconic Comme Des Garcons Fall 2014 Jumbo Knit collection. Unisex Unworn. Has Kawakubo's signature mix of avant guard and insouciance...

Timeless little black jacket from the Chanel Cruise 2017 17C ‘Cuba’ collection. Shown in the first look on the runway, modelled by Stella Tenant. New with fabric swatch tag. Supe...

Fabulous early 1990's Terry Paris Versace style jacket. Beautiful decorative goldtone medusa head medallions. Lace embellishment. Goldtone button closure a...

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...

Incredible and very rare Azzedine Alaia 2 pieces set in sting ray embossed leather from Spring Summer 1991 collection. This one of a kind set includes a cropped jacket that closes wi...

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...