Vintage Chanel Gold Tone Brooch And Matching Earrings Set
By Chanel
Located in Fukuoka, Kyushu
Vintage Chanel gold tone CC logo brocch and matching clip-on earrings. "CHANEL 93 A Made in France
Vintage Chanel Gold Tone Brooch And Matching Earrings Set
By Chanel
Located in Fukuoka, Kyushu
Vintage Chanel gold tone CC logo brocch and matching clip-on earrings. "CHANEL 93 A Made in France
Chanel '93 Collection Black Florentine Drop Earrings with Box
By Chanel
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Chanel black glass Florentine drop earrings set in textured goldtone metal. Post backs. Autumn '93
ICONIC CHANEL CLIP-ON EARRING, pearl quilted with gold ribbons, signed 93 P
By Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel
Located in Stuttgart, DE
Iconic Chanel ear clip (Made in France) half-round handmade pearl decorated with 3 mm wide bands
Pearl, Gilt Metal
Chanel XXL Graffiti Heart Earrings 1993
By Chanel
Located in US
with a starburst engraving. Arrows can face in or out. Earrings are stamped Chanel 93 P Made in France
Base Metal
Chanel Vintage '93 Turquoise & Faux Pearl Teardrop Clip On Earrings
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
Chanel Vintage '93 Multi Colored & Pearl Teardrop Clip On Earrings Made in: France Year of
Chanel '93 Vintage Goldtone Circle CCs And Center Faux Pearl Clip On Earrings
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
Chanel '93 1" Goldtone Circle CCs And Center Faux Pearl Clip On Earrings Made In: France Year of
CHANEL Vintage Gold Metal & Faux Pearls CLIP ON EARRINGS
By Chanel
Located in Rome, Rome
- Clip-on earrings - Signed ' C CHANEL R - 93 CC A - MADE IN FRANCE' in a oval mark. - Diameter: 1 1/4
Vintage Chanel Mirror Clip Earrings Large Round Yellow Gold Tone CC Logo
By Chanel
Located in Torrance, CA
Vintage Chanel mirror earrings, circa 1993. The domed large round earrings measure 1.25 inches
Gold Plate
Vintage CHANEL Chain Pearl Dangling Earrings
By Chanel
Located in Kingersheim, Alsace
chain with dangling pearl earrings. - Signed CHANEL 93 CC P. - Clip back earrings. - Gold tone. - Some
Vintage Classic CHANEL Logo Pearl Earrings
By Chanel
Located in Kingersheim, Alsace
surrounded with openwork CC logos on the gilt. - Clip back earrings. - Signed CHANEL 93 CC P Made in France
Vintage Chanel Gold Tone Large Earrings
By Chanel
Located in Fukuoka, Kyushu
Vintage Chanel gold tone earrings. Chanel 93 CC A Made in France engraved on it. They look truly
A Pair of Vintage Chanel 1993 Gold Toned Heart Clip On Earrings
Located in Copenhagen, DK
' logo in the centre front. The earrings are stamped: Chanel, 93, P, Made in France The earrings
Vintage Chanel Pearl x Gold Tone CC Logo Round Earrings
By Chanel
Located in Fukuoka, Kyushu
Chanel pearl x gold tone earrings. CHANEL 93 CC A Made in France engraved on the back. They look
In the years following the opening of her modest millinery shop, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel became a pivotal designer of both fashionable casual wear and Paris haute couture as well as an icon and arbiter of 20th-century style with her bob haircut and pearls. Today vintage Chanel handbags, jackets and evening dresses are among the most sought-after clothing and accessories for fashion lovers all over the world.
The first Chanel shop was established in 1910 in Paris on rue Cambon by the young milliner Gabrielle Chanel (1883–1971), who had picked up the nickname “Coco” while working as a club singer. The boutique drew the attention of the Parisian fashion elite who popularized her wide-brimmed Chanel Modes hats. Soon she added a sportswear store in the Normandy resort town of Deauville, where Coco set the tone for her defining sense of style — traditionally masculine garments reimagined for feminine shapes, made from simple jersey fabric.
Effortless and elegant, Chanel's designs promoted comfort and grace in women’s wear that had been dominated in the previous century by complicated layers of fabric and cumbersome corsets. She followed this success with a couture house, opened in 1915 in Biarritz.
But Chanel was not born into a life of glamour. Following the death of her mother, her father left her in an orphanage where she lived until the age of 18. It was there that she learned to sew as well as appreciate the classic pairing of black and white as worn by the nuns.
In 1926, Chanel introduced her first little black dress, reclaiming a color that had once been reserved for mourning and working-class women. That same decade, she debuted her perfume, Chanel No. 5, as well as the Chanel suit with a fitted skirt, inspired by the boxy lines of men’s clothing and employing a sporty tweed.
Chanel closed her fashion operations during World War II, then returned to the industry in 1954 to design for the functional needs of modern women.
Structure and wearability endured in all of Chanel’s clothing and accessories, like the quilted leather 2.55 handbag — a 1955 update of a 1920s-era design — with its gold-chain shoulder strap that freed up a woman’s hands. The 1957 two-tone slingback pumps had a practical heel height while offering a bold statement in the black tip of the shoes. Her collarless jacket reacted against the constricting styles of Christian Dior's New Look, replacing them with a design that was timeless, an instant classic.
After Coco Chanel died in 1971, the brand underwent several changes in leadership, including fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who took over as artistic director in 1983. His collections for Chanel displayed his knack for synthesizing old and new, high and low. Lagerfeld revived Chanel ballet flats and thoroughly embraced the classic logo's interlocking CCs, which took the form of a clasp featured on so many of the rare Chanel bags that are much sought after today.
Vintage Karl Lagerfeld designs for Chanel dresses, coats and other clothing of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s riffed on its iconography, accenting a lexicon of Chanel-isms with tastes of the moment. And as the 1990s have become associated with styles adopted by today’s supermodels and influencers, vintage Chanel bags of the 1990s are among the most prized of the brand’s offerings.
Over the years, the company has continued to innovate, such as expanding into ready-to-wear fashion in 1978 and, in 2002, establishing a subsidiary company — Paraffection — dedicated to preserving the heritage skills of fashion artisan workshops. The House of Chanel still operates its flagship on rue Cambon in Paris, where it all began.
Browse vintage Chanel bags, evening dresses, shoes, jewelry and other clothing and accessories on 1stDibs.
In the United States, ear piercing didn’t really become popular until the 1950s and ‘60s, but our desire for a dazzling pair of vintage earrings has deeper roots than that. In fact, wearing earrings actually goes back thousands of years, and you can find many tangible connections between now and then in how we continue to talk about these treasured accessories.
Women wore ornamental earrings — studs and hoops at the very least — in Ancient Egypt, which is home to mines that are among the earliest sources of emeralds in the world. Emerald earrings are highly prized today, and their quality lies in their rich, saturated color. The highest-quality emeralds are green or bluish-green. Earrings worn by the affluent in early Roman civilizations were set with precious stones such as diamonds and pearls, and a clean-looking pop of pearl on the front of the lobe is as timeless as ever. Hoop earrings are imbued with symbolism and cultural significance for many, and on view in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Ancient Near Eastern Art Gallery is a pair of simple gold hoops from Mesopotamia dating to between 2600 and 2500 B.C.
Today, ear piercing is very popular all over the world, and, as a result, it is difficult to overstate how much everyone pines for a good pair of earrings — modernist drop earrings, glamorous Victorian hoops, geometrically complex chandelier earrings, you name it. Sure, jewelry trends and the fashion darlings of social media come and go, but earrings have a staying power that seems impenetrable: The still-strong love affair between British royals and Cartier earrings is more than a century old, glossy 1970s hoops from legacy houses such as Bulgari and Van Cleef & Arpels remain the statement makers they’ve always been and although people have been stacking earrings for many moons, the allure of an expertly mismatched stack of charms and studs still feels fresh and new.
While there is no shortage of modern earring designs to choose from, the classics, like coral earrings, Art Deco–style earrings and diamond drop earrings are still heavy hitters. On 1stDibs, find a wide range of antique, new and vintage earrings today.