New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 9274 Round Space Grey & Grey Lenses 1990's Japan
By Jean Paul Gaultier
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 9274 Round Space Grey Frame. Medium grey Lenses That Complete A Ready To Wear Jpg Look. Amazing Design With Strong Yet Intricate Details. A True Fashion ...
Sting steampunk eyeglasses frame with spring hinges, Italy 90s
By De rigo, Sting
Located in Valencia, CA
Founded in 1985, Sting Eyewear burst onto the scene as a fresh face in the world of Italian eyewear. Targeting a youthful audience, the brand quickly gained a reputation for its styl...
New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 9274 Round Space Grey & Brown Lenses 1990's Japan
By Jean Paul Gaultier
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 9274 Round Space Grey Frame. Medium Brown Lenses That Complete A Ready To Wear Jpg Look. Amazing Design With Strong Yet Intricate Details. A True Fashion...
Steampunk glasses frame by Sting, Italy 90s, spring hinges
By Sting, De rigo
Located in Valencia, CA
MAKE: Sting MODEL: 4200 - 647 MADE IN: Italy ERA: 1990s CONDITION: New Old Stock [never worn] DIMENSIONS: Lens width: 52 mm / 2 1/16 in Lens height: 36 mm / 1 7/16 in Bridge: 19...
New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 0271 Eiffel Tower Tortoise Collector Item 1990's Japan
By Jean Paul Gaultier
Located in Baleares, Baleares
Superb Collectors Item!! New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 0271 Eiffel Tower Copper Ornaments over tortoise frame. Spotless dark amber lenses that complete a ready to wear JPG look. Amazin...
New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 5201 Oval Blue Translucent Collector Item 1990's Japan
By Jean Paul Gaultier
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Collectors Item! New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 5201 Oval Blue Translucent frame with itemized details on the temples. Baby Blue lenses that complete a ready to wear JPG look. Amaz...
New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 0272 Tortoise & Silver Eiffel Tower item 1990's Japan
By Jean Paul Gaultier
Located in Baleares, Baleares
Superb collectors item!! New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 0272 Eiffel Tower tortoise and metal frame. Spotless light green lenses that complete a ready to wear JPG look. amazing design with...
Porsche Lightweight Titanium Accented with Italian-Red Rubber Arms Frames
By Porsche Design
Located in New York, NY
Porsche wonderfully lightweight titanium frames are highlighted with Italian-Red rubber arms for comfort. Along one arm are etched "Porsche Design". The front are designed slightly c...
Dolce & Gabbana "Limited Edition" Gilded Gold Hardware & Merlot Lucite Sunglass
By Dolce & Gabbana
Located in New York, NY
Dolce & Gabbana "Limited Edition" double frame front of polished gilded gold hardware surrounded with thick merlot lucite with both arms etched with "Dolce & Gabbana". The arms are c...
Valentino vintage eyeglasses
By Valentino
Located in Valencia, CA
MAKE: Valentino MODEL: 5128 - K3B MADE IN: Italy ERA: 90s CONDITION: New Old Stock [never worn] DIMENSIONS: Lens width: 49 mm / 1 15/16 in Bridge: 17 mm / 11/16 in Temple arm le...
Norma Kamali vintage glasses frame
By Norma Kamali
Located in Valencia, CA
MAKE: Norma Kamali MODEL: 7527 - Cocoa CONDITION: New Old Stock [never worn] DIMENSIONS: Lens width: 52 mm / 2 1/16 in Bridge: 18 mm / 11/16 in Temple-to-temple width: 130 mm /...
Neostyle Art Deco vintage eyeglasses frame, made in Germany
By Neostyle
Located in Valencia, CA
MAKE: Neostyle MODEL: Citysmart - 465 MADE IN: Germany ERA: 90s CONDITION: New Old Stock [never worn] DIMENSIONS: Lens width: 48 mm / 1 7/8 in Bridge: 18 mm / 11/16 in Temple-to...
Round black eyeglasses frame by Sting, Italy 90s
By Sting, De rigo
Located in Valencia, CA
MAKE: Sting MODEL: 4153 - 540 MADE IN: Italy ERA: 1990s CONDITION: New Old Stock [never worn] DIMENSIONS: Lens width: 51 mm / 2 in Lens height: 44 mm / 1 3/4 in Bridge: 19 mm /...
Nina Ricci Vintage 1990s Women's Frame Glasses NWOT Italian Design
By Nina Ricci
Located in Capri, IT
Nina Ricci Frame glasses NWOT
New Vintage Fred Move RX Prescription Silver Gold & Ochre Made in France
By Fred Paris
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Vintage FRED Move Silver, gold & ochre frame. Ready for RX reading and prescription. Made in France. Produced and design in 1990's. This item may show minor sign of wear due ...
New Vintage Fred Move C3 RX Prescription Silver & Red Made in France
By Fred Paris
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Vintage FRED Move Silver & red frame. Ready for RX reading and prescription. Made in France. Produced and design in 1990's. This item may show minor sign of wear due to stora...
New Vintage Fred Saint Vincent RX Prescription Silver & Gold Made in France
By Fred Paris
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Vintage FRED Saint Vincent gold and silver frame. Ready for RX reading and prescription. Made in France. Produced and design in 1990's. This item may show minor sign of wear ...
Woodstock vintage horn-rim eyeglasses frame
Located in Valencia, CA
MAKE: Woodstock MODEL: V75 - 370 MADE IN: Italy CONDITION: New Old Stock [never worn] DIMENSIONS: Lens width: 44 mm / 1 3/4 in Lens height: 24 mm / 15/16 in Bridge: 14 mm / 9/...
Jean Paul Gaultier 56 8002 Black Changeable Temples Collectors Item 1990 Japan
By Jean Paul Gaultier
Located in Baleares, Baleares
Collectors Item!! Iconic Jean Paul Gaultier 56 8002 Black Silver Matte interchangeable temples frame. Dark blue lenses that complete a ready to wear JPG look. The very same model wo...
New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 0272 Eiffel Tower Inserts Collector Item 1990's Japan
By Jean Paul Gaultier
Located in Baleares, Baleares
Superb Collectors Item!! New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 0272 Eiffel Tower Series Silver Ornaments on the temples over sleek tortoise frame. Spotless Dark green/ Brown lenses that complet...
Chanel Titanium Iridescent Royal-Red Half-Frame Reading Glasses
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
Chanel wonderfully elegant iridescent royal-red half-frame reading glasses, made of titanium are weightless when worn. The arms are extremely streamline shaped with an elegant...
Jean Paul Gaultier Signature Arms Gilded Silver Hardware Glasses
By Jean Paul Gaultier
Located in New York, NY
Jean Paul Gaultier gilded silver hardware frames accented with the signature name in script on both arms of these prescription lens glasses. The bridge are detailed with JPG with the...
Moschino Tortoise Shell with Interior & Exterior Name-Plate Arms
By Moschino
Located in New York, NY
Moschino wonderfully detailed tortoise shell sunglass are engraved with the signature name-plate on both the exterior as well as the interior of both arms. The arms are also detailed...
Tom Ford Gold Hardware Sunglass Frame
By Tom Ford
Located in New York, NY
Tom Ford gold hardware sunglass frames measures 5 1/2" across the front, height is 2", arms are 5 5/8".
Prada Semi Wrap-Around Silver Hardware with Lucite Glasses
By Prada
Located in New York, NY
Prada semi-wrap-around glasses is combined with silver hardware and lucite. The front measures 5 3/4", arms are 4 3/4", height is 1 1/2". The semi-wrap front measures 7 1/8" from cor...
Yves Saint Laurent Gilded Gold Hardware with Tortoise Shell Eyeglasses
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in New York, NY
Yves Saint Laurent gilded gold hardware eyeglasses are accented with tortoise shell finished arms. The arms is highlighted with their signature "YSL" logo on the arms. The front ...
Kio Yamato Detailed Titanium Black & White Glasses
Located in New York, NY
Kio Yamato white & black titanium frame glasses has great detailed "crane" corners. The glasses are 1 1/8" in height and 5 1/2" across the front. The sides are detailed with white an...
Jones New York vintage eyeglasses frame
Located in Valencia, CA
MAKE: Jones New York MODEL: J-3471 - 3 MADE IN: Korea ERA: 1990s CONDITION: New Old Stock [never worn] DIMENSIONS: Lens width: 50 mm / 1 15/16 in Lens height: 30 mm / 1 3/16 in ...
Vintage Henry Jullien Medium Sunglasses 1990's Made in France
Located in Baleares, Baleares
Vintage HENRY JULLIEN sunglasses frame with blue lenses. This pair show minor sign of wear due to storage. Made in italy.
Chanel Vintage Runway Piece Sunglasses Made In Italy, F / W 1994
By Chanel
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Rare Vintage Chanel Runway Fall / Winter 1994 sunglasses. A seldom and unique piece in this new, never displayed or worn condition. This pair of Chanel sunglasses is an absolut...
Vintage Gianni Versace Translucent 420B Sunglasses 1990's Made in Italy
By Gianni Versace
Located in Baleares, Baleares
Vintage Gianni Versace medium translucent frame with medium grey lenses. Comes with its original Gianni Versace sleeve. This pair show minor sign of wear due to storage. Made in it...
New Jean Paul Gaultier 55 1177 Rimless Copper Sunglasses 1990's Made in Japan
By Jean Paul Gaultier
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Jean Paul Gaultier medium copper rimless frame. Spotless brown lenses that complete a ready to wear JPG look. Amazing design with strong yet intricate details. Design and produ...
New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 5201 Oval Green Translucent Collector Item 1990's Japa
By Jean Paul Gaultier
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Collectors Item! New Jean Paul Gaultier 56 5201 Oval Green Translucent frame with itemized details on the temples. Light Amber lenses that complete a ready to wear JPG look. A...
Sting oval sunglasses, Italy
By De rigo, Sting
Located in Valencia, CA
Founded in 1985, Sting Eyewear burst onto the scene as a fresh face in the world of Italian eyewear. Targeting a youthful audience, the brand quickly gained a reputation for its styl...
Sting round vintage sunglasses spring hinges
By De rigo, Sting
Located in Valencia, CA
MAKE: Sting MODEL: 4298 - 589 MADE IN: Italy ERA: 1990s CONDITION: New Old Stock [never worn] DIMENSIONS: Lens width: 49 mm / 1 15/16 in Lens height: 36 mm / 1 7/16 in Bridge: 2...
New Vintage Moschino MM3018 Oval Black Matte 1990 Sunglasses
By Moschino
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Vintage Moschino small oval black matte frame with G15 Grey lenses. Made in Italy. Produced and design in 1990's. New, never worn or displayed.
Vintage Cartier Filao 47MM Oval Gold Plated Brown Lens France 1990 Sunglasses
By Cartier
Located in Baleares, Baleares
1990 Cartier Filao Sunglasses with brown (uv protection) lenses. All hallmarks. Cartier gold signs on the ear paddles. These are like a pair of jewels on your nose. Please notice...
Moschino By Persol M253 Vintage Black Jewelled Lady Gaga Sunglasses, 1990
By Moschino
Located in Baleares, Baleares
Mint rare Vintage Moschino oval with jewell details frame. Grey lenses. The very same model worn by Lady Gaga. Made in Italy. Produced and design in 1990's. This item is in mint ...
Donna Karan Japan small vintage glasses frame
By Norma Kamali
Located in Valencia, CA
MAKE: Donna Karan MODEL: DK-142 - 330 MADE IN: Japan CONDITION: New Old Stock [never worn] DIMENSIONS: Lens width: 43 mm / 1 11/16 in Lens height: 37 mm / 1 7/16 in Bridge: 18 m...
New Vintage Persol Ratti P206 Made in Italy Sunglasses, 1980
By Moschino
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Persol Ratti oversized frame with light gradient lenses. Made in Italy. Produced and design in 1990's.
New Vintage Gianni Versace 530 Tortoise & Copper Sunglasses 1990's Made in Italy
By Gianni Versace
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Vintage Gianni Versace amber tortoise with copper accents frame with medium grey lenses. New never worn or displayed. Comes with its original Gianni Versace sleeve and cleaning ...
New Vintage Gianni Versace 418 P Oval Tortoise Sunglasses 1990's Made in Italy
By Gianni Versace
Located in Baleares, Baleares
New Vintage Gianni Versace amber tortoise oval with gold accents, faux leather covered temples frame with medium brown lenses. New never worn or displayed. Comes with its original G...
For fashion lovers, the 1990s have become associated with styles adopted by today’s supermodels and influencers, who never wear the same thing twice. And because fast fashion didn’t yet exist, the design associated with 1990s fashion — vintage '90s handbags, clothing and accessories — has a quality appreciated by the millennial generation: authenticity.
If there was one concept unifying fashion in the 1990s, it was the lean silhouette. “Fashion is a game of proportion,” Alexander Fury wrote in the New York Times in 2016. “Narrow-shouldered and narrow-hipped, the ’90s were skinny.”
If it takes a practiced eye to identify that single concept, that’s because in truth, ’90s fashion was many things to many people. After the 1980s era of strong-shouldered working women, glossy aerobicized bodies and Madonna, fashion branched out.
The industry gained momentum from big-money relaunches of the great Paris houses Dior, Givenchy and Balenciaga, rescued at long last from the constraints of licensing. Japan and Belgium gave fashion new avant-garde ideas to play with. From America came denim, minimalism, '90s grunge fashion and hip-hop. From Italy came sex appeal. And Prada.
For the colorful corsets of her 1990 Portrait collection, audacious British designer Dame Vivienne Westwood drew on 18th-century oil paintings — her models donned the pearl choker necklaces that have become a social media star and a favorite of influencers and fashion lovers all over the world. For a jacket-and-shorts suit from her Fall/Winter 1996–97 Storm in a Teacup line, the designer used the extreme asymmetry of a tartan mash-up to confront, according to Westwood, “the horror of uniformity and minimalism.”
“The ethos of the time was, you could have style, you could be into all kinds of cool stuff. It wasn’t about money, it wasn’t about status,” says Katy Rodriguez, cofounder of Resurrection. In contrast, “our last 10 years have seen the domination of nonstop luxury, money and status.”
Vintage 1990s Chanel bags, for example, are among the most prized of the brand’s offerings — at Newfound Luxury, proprietor L. Kiyana Macon has "clients who only buy ’90s Chanel because they recognize that it is the best quality.”
Things were different in the ’90s, and the difference is reflected in the clothes. Pull up any recent “How to Do the 1990s” fashion article (or look at photos of current supermodels Gigi, Kendall and Bella), and you’ll see iconic '90s outfits — knee socks, cardigans, fanny packs, fishnet stockings, slip dresses, flannel shirts and combat boots.
Rodriguez has recently noticed something similar happening. Before COVID, customers searched 1990s stock “for very sexy Galliano, Dior, Cavalli — that kind of thing,” she explains, noting that just a few months ago, “people were posting [on social media] the poshest things they could.” Now, in the age of shutdown, “that would just look out of touch.”
Instead, people are looking for “things that are cool but also easy and comfortable, not necessarily super-luxe,” Rodriguez continues. They’re “heading back to the more avant-garde, anti-fashion designers, like Helmut Lang, [Martin] Margiela and [Ann] Demeulemeester.”
Late designer Franco Moschino shocked and titillated the ’80s fashion elite with his whimsical, irreverent parodies of bourgeois finery. Whether emblazoning a sober blazer with smiley faces or embellishing a skirt suit with cutlery, Moschino rendered high style with a hearty wink. He famously said, “If you can’t be elegant, at least be extravagant” — words that, with all due respect to Susan Sontag, epitomize the essence of camp.
Vintage Moschino pants, jackets and other '90s Moschino garments remain so bold and fresh today that even the house's former creative director, Jeremy Scott, drew on the brand's past and the pop culture of the decade for his debut collection in 2014.
Find vintage 90s dresses, skirts, sweaters and other clothing and accessories on 1stDibs — shop Thierry Mugler, Miuccia Prada, Jean Paul Gaultier and more today.
A pair of vintage designer sunglasses can be a game-changing finishing touch to your ensemble.
No matter your age or general fashion sensibility, wearing sunglasses may already be part of your regular outdoor routine owing to their practicality. Most sunglasses protect the eyes from harmful UV (ultraviolet) rays — and not merely on sunny days. Glasses that utilize color-enhancing lenses, which feature specific coatings or filter tints, can limit the amount of light coming through, while polarized lenses substantially reduce glare.
So while their usefulness is well known, let’s face it, a good pair of sunglasses can be stylish too.
People have been making a statement with iconic eyewear for a while — sunglasses garnered popularity with the Hollywood set in the early 1900s, when it wasn’t uncommon for a hip actress to be photographed in a pair of her sharpest shades.
Today, we’re still talking about the sunglasses that Audrey Hepburn — the original trendsetter — donned in the opening scene of 1961’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. She emerges from the flagship store of the legendary luxury house referenced in the film’s title in a pair of glamorous dark tortoiseshell frames designed by London eyewear firm Oliver Goldsmith Sunglasses. The brand was a keeper for Hepburn — in 1967, she famously wore a pair of Goldsmith’s Yuhu wraparound frames in the poster for Stanley Donen’s film Two for the Road.
Indeed, celebrities have long held sway in the sunglasses realm — perhaps you’ve opted for vintage Ray-Ban sunglasses because you’re enamored with Marilyn Monroe’s celebrated Wayfarers or you’ve taken to classic Aviators because actor Jon Hamm wore them in the nostalgic TV smash hit Mad Men. Good frames are a surefire way to take your style to the next level.
When shopping for the right pair of sunglasses, consider the color and shape of the frames (as well as the shape of your face), how dark or light the lenses are — or tint, if you’re leaning toward a chic gradient lens. Take your time, spring for more than one pair because different moods call for different shades and, while you’re at it, make sure you know how to spot a pair of fake Ray-Ban sunglasses before you make that purchase.
On 1stDibs, our collection of vintage designer sunglasses features classics from Gucci, Cartier, Chanel and other brands as well as a wide range that can be sorted by color — find sleek black sunglasses, brown pairs and a whole lot of other eye-catching options, whether it’s sunny outside or not.
This simple move can jazz up any outfit without bringing on the heat.
Sunglasses were a constant for Bob Dylan in real life and in the film.
The actress and style icon wore the 1960s frames while shooting on location in the French Riviera.
Of the million-plus items on 1stdibs, some seem to have transcended time, looking as fresh today as when they were first produced. The pieces highlighted on our new Iconic Designs page stand out for longevity, functionality and quality of design and manufacture — just the tonic for the present unsettled moment.