Christian Dior Vintage Large Octagon Crystals Square Gold Statement Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Large Sparkling Crystal Octagon Square Chunky Statement Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Asymmetric Purple Amethyst Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Asymmetric Amethyst Purple Crystals Tear Water Drop Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gold Unisex Rectangle Sparkling Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Rectangle Whole Crystals Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Blue Sapphire Peacock Feather Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Sapphire Navy Peacock Feather Triangle Crystals Water Tear Drop Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Gold Tone Chain-Link Clip-On Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Paris, FR
Christian Dior gold-tone chain-link small clip-on earrings featuring chunky chain-link motif, strass rhinestone embellishment, a back clip on, and a back plaque pitted.
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Textured Crystals Swirl Twist Circle Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Textured Swirl Twist Crystals Circle Round Modernist Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Brushed Gold Dome Clip-On Earrings 1980s
By Christian Dior
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
These elegant Christian Dior clip-on earrings from the 1980s feature a brushed gold-tone finish with a distinctive dome silhouette.
CHRISTIAN DIOR Vintage Gold‑Tone Woven Trellis Design Earrings with Glass Beads
By Christian Dior
Located in Nice, FR
CHRISTIAN DIOR vintage dangle earrings (clip-on) featuring a gold‑tone woven trellis design and cascading red and fuschia glass beads in varying sizes.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Logo Initial Monogram Insignia Medallion Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Classic Iconic Logo Insignia Initial Monogram Medallion Circle Round Disc Button Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Gold and Silver Tone Clip On Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Paris, FR
Christian Dior Gold & silver tone clip-on pendant earrings featuring a large free gold- tone loop and a silver-tone loop, brand pitted on the back.
Vintage CHRISTIAN DIOR gold plated designer runway clip on earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Palos Hills, IL
DETAILS • signed CHRISTIAN DIOR • gold plated • vintage designer runway earrings MEASUREMENTS • CONDITION • excellent vintage condition with minimal signs of wear ❤️...
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Vintage Christian Dior CD Logo Button Earrings 1990s
By Christian Dior
Located in Wilmslow, GB
We love these Vintage Dior Button Logo Earrings from the 1990s. Featuring the iconic CD initials in high quality, gold plated metal button style clip on earrings.
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Vintage Christian Dior Crystal Pavé Gold-Tone Statement Clip Earrings 1980s
By Christian Dior
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
Glamorous vintage Christian Dior clip earrings dating from the 1980s. These striking statement earrings feature an elegant link and horseshoe-shaped design, fully pavé-set with spark...
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Christian Dior John Galliano Gold Citrine Openwork Chandelier Chunky Earrings
By John Galliano for Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior by John Galliano Vintage Baroque Large Citrine Crystals Circle Flower Openwork Chandelier Dangle Water Drop Elegant Chunky Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Very good condit...
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Christian Dior Gold Metal Clip Earrings
By Gianfranco Ferré for Christian Dior
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Dior - (Made in Germany) Gold metal clip earrings.
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Christian Dior Vintage Iconic Gripoix Rare Ruby Emerald Sapphire Gold Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gripoix Red Green Blue Clear Ruby Emerald Sapphire Clear Crystals Earrings Openwork Exquisite Elegant Modernist Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condi...
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Christian Dior 1992 Haute Couture Iconic Rare Black Crystals Gold Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1992 Vintage Vivid Black Blossom Flower Crystals Pistil Leaf Openwork Elegant Chunky Statement Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Iconic Rare Gold Marquise Circle Flower Openwork Domed Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal, Rhinestones.
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Christian Dior Vintage Iconic Rare Camellia Rose Crystals Gold Clip Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Openwork Rose Camellia Floral Flower Whole Sparkling Crystals Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Very excellent condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Iconic Gold Large White Pearl Crystals Triangle Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Triangle Openwork White Round Circle Pearl Crystals Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Iconic Large Gold Round Stars Crystals Domed Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Textured Large Round Circle Stars Crystals Dome Hoop Chunky Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Iconic White Pearl Aurora Oval Gold Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s White Aurora Oval Pearl Crystals Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage AB Gold Textured Navy Lapis Cabochon Rectangle Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s AB Large Textured Navy Blue Lapis Cabochon Rectangle Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Unisex Gold White Triangle Crystals Beige Domed Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of clip on earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal, Rhinestones.
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Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Large Flower Crystals Shining Clip Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large Whole Shining Crystals Flourish Blossom Flower Elegant Chunky Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Knot Circle Loop Interlocked Hoop Chunky Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Iconic Gripoix Ruby Triangle Crystals Domed Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gripoix Ruby Red Black Enamel Crystals Hoop Dome Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Iconic Gold White Pearl Oval Crystals Pierced Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Oval White Pearl Crystals Flower Elegant Modernist Pierced Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Iconic Gold Huge White Pearl Crystals Chunky Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1970s Huge Extra Large White Oval Pearl Triangle Circle Shining Crystals Sunburst Elegant Modernist Statement Chunky Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condit...
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Christian Dior Vintage Large Gold White Oval Pearl Chunky Statement Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Large White Oval Pearl Chunky Statement Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Good condition.
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Vintage CHRISTIAN DIOR BOUTIQUE Ethnic Dangling Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Kingersheim, Alsace
Vintage CHRISTIAN DIOR BOUTIQUE Ethnic Dangling Earrings Measurements: Height: 3.18 inches (8.1 cm) Width: 0.98 inch (2.5 cm) Weight per Earring: 19 grams Features: - 100% Authenti...
Christian Dior Vintage Gold White Flower Oval Pearl Sparking Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s White Flower Oval Pearl Clear Sparking Crystals Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Amethyst Crystals Leaf Tear Water Drop Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Amethyst Purple Crystals Leaf Water Tear Drop Clip Elegant Modernist Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Unisex Baroque Blossom Flower Large Oval Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal, Rhinestone.
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Christian Dior Vintage Iconic Gold Large Oval White Pearl Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large Oval White Pearl Rectangle Circle Crystals Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Rare Large Interlocked Hoop Glow Chunky Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gripoix Gold Blue Oval Crystals Hoop Domed Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Gripoix Blue Navy Oval Crystals Circle Rectangle Hoop Domed Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Purple Amethyst Oval Clear Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of clip on earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal, Rhinestones.
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DIOR Tribale double pearl gold large oval hoop statement stud earrings pair
By Christian Dior
Located in Hong Kong, NT
DIOR Tribale double pearl gold large oval hoop statement stud earrings pair Reference: AAWC/A00906 Brand: Dior Collection: Tribale Material: Faux Pearl, Metal Color: Gold, Pearl Patt...
Christian Dior Vintage Gold Large Circle Logo Insignia Initial Monogram Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Large Logo Insignia Initial Monogram Circle Round Disc Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Large Textured Circle Shell Half Domed Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large Textured Shell Half Dome Circle Chunky Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Iconic Gold Gripoix Ruby Red Diamond Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Marble Gripoix Ruby Red Diamond Crystals Geometric Elegant Modernist Clip On Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Oval White Pearl Whole Shining Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Oval White Pearl Shining Crystals Clip On Elegant Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Rare Strands Rope Spiral Interlocked Clip Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Large Circle Sparkling Crystals Domed Hoop Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large Circle Sparkling Crystals Demi Semi Dome Modernist Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Large Round Sunburst Floral Relief Chunky Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior 1980s Vintage Unisex Large Abnormal Round Circle Dome Sunburst Floral Relief Chunky Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition. 100% Genuine.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Unisex Massive Onyx Black Oval Spiral Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Huge Massive Large Onyx Black Enamel Oval Spiral Chunky Modernist Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Unisex Shining Half Domed Hoop Crystals Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Whole Shining Half Dome Hoop Crystals Clip Modernist Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gripoix Gold Red Sapphire Ruby Emerald Domed Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of earrings by DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal, Rhinestones.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Unisex Twist Knot Interlocked Hoop Chunky Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal.
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Christian Dior Vintage Unisex Gold Interlocked Twist Knot Chunky Clip Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Glow Matte Interlocked Twist Knot Chunky Statement Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Rare White Pearl Crystals Blossom Flower Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Flourish Blossom Flower White Pearl Crystals Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Haute Couture Massive Gold Insignia Crest AB Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Massive Huge Large Baroque AB Logo Monogram Insignia Crest Square Openwork Chunky Statement Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Very good condit...
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Textured Large Hoop Circle Domed Chunky Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal.
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Christian Dior Vintage Large Gold White Pearl Abnormal Circle Round Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Large Abnormal Circle Round White Pearl Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Blue Oval Sapphire Crystals Openwork Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal, Rhinestones.
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Christian Dior Vintage Gold Large Triangle Cream Black Cabochon Chunky Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Large Triangle Beige Enamel Black Cabochon Chunky Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Orange Cabochon Spiral Water Drop Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of clip on earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal, Resin.
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Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Large Round White Pearl Interlocked Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
A very beautiful pair of earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at the back. Material: Gold plated metal, Faux pearl.
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Christian Dior Vintage Rare Gold Unisex Large Insignia Initial Monogram Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Wokingham, England
Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Large Insignia Initial Monogram Logo Circle Round Disc Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Very good condition.
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When Christian Dior launched his couture house, in 1946, he wanted nothing less than to make “an elegant woman more beautiful and a beautiful woman more elegant.” He succeeded, and in doing so the visionary designer altered the landscape of 20th century fashion. Vintage Dior bags, shoes, evening dresses, shirts and other garments and accessories are known today for their feminine and sophisticated sensibility.
Dior was born in Granville, on the Normandy coast, in 1905. His prosperous haute bourgeois parents wanted him to become a diplomat despite his interest in art and architecture. However, they agreed to bankroll an art gallery, which Dior opened in 1928 in Paris with a friend.
This was the start of Dior’s rise in the city’s creative milieu, where he befriended Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. After seven years as an art dealer, Dior retrained as a fashion illustrator, eventually landing a job as a fashion designer for Robert Piguet, and in 1941, following a year of military service, he joined the house of Lucien Lelong. Just five years later, with the backing of industrialist Marcel Boussac, the ascendant Dior established his own fashion house, at 30 avenue Montaigne in Paris.
Just two years after the end of World War II, the fashion crowd and the moribund haute couture industry were yearning, comme tout Paris, for security and prosperity, desperate to discard the drab, sexless, utilitarian garb imposed by wartime deprivation. They needed to dream anew.
And Dior delivered: He designed a collection for a bright, optimistic future. “It’s quite a revolution, dear Christian!” exclaimed Carmel Snow, the prescient American editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, famously proclaiming, “Your dresses have such a new look.” The press ran with the description, christening Dior’s debut Spring/Summer haute couture collection the New Look. “God help those who bought before they saw Dior,” said Snow. “This changes everything.”
Dior’s collection definitively declared that opulence, luxury and femininity were in. His skirts could have 40-meter-circumference hems, and outfits could weigh up to 60 pounds. They were cut and shaped like architecture, on strong foundations that molded women and “freed them from nature,” Dior said. Rather than rationing, his ladies wanted reams of fabric and 19-inch waists enforced by wire corsets, and the fashion world concurred. The debut got a standing ovation.
In the subsequent decade, Paris ruled as the undisputed fashion capital of the world, and Christian Dior reigned as its king. With the luxuriously full skirts of his New Look, suits and his drop-dead gorgeous couture dresses and ball gowns worthy of any princess, Dior gave women the gift of glamour they’d lost in the miserable years of war.
On 1stDibs, find an exquisite range of vintage Christian Dior clothing, jewelry, handbags and other items.
Gold is the feel-good metal, the serotonin of jewelry. Wear vintage and antique gold necklaces, watches, gold bracelets or gold rings and you feel happy, you feel dressed, you feel, well, yourself.
Gold, especially yellow gold, with its rich patina and ancient pedigree going back thousands of years, is the steady standby, the well-mannered metal of choice. Any discussion of this lustrous metal comes down to a basic truth: Gold is elementary, my dear. Gold jewelry that couples the mystique of the metal with superb design and craftsmanship achieves the status of an enduring classic. Many luxury houses have given us some of our most treasured and lasting examples of gold jewelry over the years.
Since its founding, in 1837, Tiffany & Co. has built its reputation on its company jewelry as well as its coterie of boutique designers, which has included Jean Schlumberger, Donald Claflin, Angela Cummings and Elsa Peretti. There are numerous gold Tiffany classics worth citing. Some are accented with gemstones, but all stand out for their design and the workmanship displayed.
For the woman who prefers a minimalist look, the Tiffany & Co. twist bangle (thin, slightly ovoid) is stylishly simple. For Cummings devotees, signature pieces feature hard stone inlay, such as her pairs of gold ear clips inlaid with black jade (a play on the classic Chanel black and tan), or bangles whose design recalls ocean waves, with undulating lines of lapis lazuli and mother-of-pearl. And just about any design by the great Jean Schlumberger is by definition a classic.
Even had he eschewed stones and diamonds, Southern-born David Webb would be hailed for the vast arsenal of heavy gold jewelry he designed. Gold, usually hammered or textured in some manner, defines great David Webb jewelry. The self-taught jeweler made very au courant pieces while drawing inspiration from ancient and out-of-the-way sources — East meets West in the commanding gold necklaces made by Webb in the early 1970s. The same could be said for his endlessly varied gold cuffs.
In Europe, many houses have given us gold jewelry that sets the highest standard for excellence, pieces that were highly sought after when they were made and continue to be so.
Numerous designs from Cartier are homages to gold. There are the classic Trinity rings, necklaces and bracelets — trifectas of yellow, white and rose gold. As a testament to the power of love, consider the endurance of the Cartier Love bracelet.
Aldo Cipullo, Cartier’s top in-house designer from the late 1960s into the early ’70s, made history in 1969 with the Love bracelet. Cipullo frequently said that the Love bracelet was born of a sleepless night contemplating a love affair gone wrong and his realization that “the only remnants he possessed of the romance were memories.” He distilled the urge to keep a loved one close into a slim 18-karat gold bangle.
BVLGARI and its coin jewelry, gemme nummarie, hit the jackpot when the line launched in the 1960s. The line has been perennially popular. BVLGARI coin jewelry features ancient Greek and Roman coins embedded in striking gold mounts, usually hung on thick link necklaces of varying lengths. In the 1970s, BVLGARI introduced the Tubogas line, most often made in yellow gold. The Tubogas watches are classics, and then there is the Serpenti, the house's outstanding snake-themed watches and bracelets.
A collection called Monete that incorporated the gold coins is one of several iconic BVLGARI lines that debuted in the 1970s and ’80s, catering to a new generation of empowered women. Just as designers like Halston and Yves Saint Laurent were popularizing fuss-free ready-to-wear fashion for women on the go, BVLGARI offered jewels to be lived in.
Since Van Cleef & Arpels opened its Place Vendôme doors in 1906, collection after collection of jewelry classics have enchanted the public. As predominantly expressed in a honeycomb of gold, there is the Ludo watch and accessories, circa the 1920s, and the golden Zip necklace, 1951, whose ingenious transformation of the traditional zipper was originally proposed by the Duchess of Windsor. Van Cleef's Alhambra, with its Moroccan motif, was introduced in 1968 and from the start its popularity pivoted on royalty and celebrity status. It remains one of VCA’s most popular and collected styles.
Mention must be made of Buccellati, whose name is synonymous with gold so finely spun that it suggests tapestry. The house’s many gold bracelets, typically embellished with a few or many diamonds, signified taste and distinction and are always in favor on the secondary market. Other important mid-20th-century houses known for their gold-themed jewelry include Hermès and Ilias Lalaounis.
Find a stunning collection of vintage and antique gold jewelry 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.