Couture Wool Mini Dress - '90s
By Gianni Versace
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Cream wool-silk blend mini dress from Versace Fall 1995 collection. Features a round collar, Medusa flap pockets, back belt accent, and sleek sleeveless fit.
Couture Wool Mini Dress - '90s
By Gianni Versace
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Cream wool-silk blend mini dress from Versace Fall 1995 collection. Features a round collar, Medusa flap pockets, back belt accent, and sleek sleeveless fit.
Well Documented Gianni Versace Couture Fall 1995 Suit as seen on by Prince
By Gianni Versace
Located in Baar, CH
This red Versace suit from the Fall/Winter 1995 collection gained prominence on multiple platforms.
F/W 1995 Gianni Versace Ad Gold Tone Greek Key Link Rhinestone Bracelet
By Gianni Versace
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a fabulous gold tone crystal rhinestone Gianni Versace bracelet, designed by Gianni Versace. From the Fall/Winter 1995 collection, this bracelet was highlighted in the sea...
F/W 1995 Gianni Versace Couture Black Sequin Medusa Button Pant Suit
By Gianni Versace, Gianni Versace Couture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an incredible black sequin Gianni Versace pantsuit. From the Fall/Winter 1995 collection, this fabulous suit is covered nearly head to toe in shiny black sequins.
NWT F/W 1995 Gianni Versace Ruched Pink Velvet Bow Bodysuit Skirt Set
By Gianni Versace
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This new with tags Gianni Versace set from the Fall/Winter 1995 collection is comprised of a blush pink velvet bodysuit and matching skirt.
F/W 1995 Gianni Versace Couture Runway Red Bouclé Tweed Skirt Suit Documented
By Gianni Versace Couture, Gianni Versace
Located in West Hollywood, CA
From the Fall/Winter 1995 collection, this set debuted as look number 8 on Helena Christensen and the season's ad campaign on Shalom Harlow, shot by Richard Avedon.
$3,036Sale Price|20% Off
F/W 1995 Gianni Versace Runway Grey Satin Velvet Dress Rhinestone Jacket Set
By Gianni Versace Couture, Gianni Versace
Located in West Hollywood, CA
From the Fall/Winter 1995 collection, the dress from this set debuted on the season's runway as look number 56, modeled by Kristen McMenamy.
Gianni Versace Stretch Velvet Dress Fall 1995
By Gianni Versace
Located in Athens, Agia Paraskevi
Gianni Versace Stretch Velvet Dress Fall 1995
Gianni Versace Couture Striped Silk Shorts Fall 1995
By Gianni Versace
Located in Athens, Agia Paraskevi
Gianni Versace Couture Striped Silk Shorts Fall 1995
1995 "The Gianni Versace Dress" Gianni Versace Pink Velvet Ensemble
By Gianni Versace
Located in Kingston, NY
‘The Gianni Versace Dress’: A Fall 1995 velvet piece as seen on Amber Valletta and Shalom Harlow in the 1995 ad campaign shot by the iconic Richard Avedon.
F/W 1995 Gianni Versace Couture Black Satin Skirt Bodycon Sleeveless Dress
By Gianni Versace, Gianni Versace Couture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a classic little black dress designed by Gianni Versace for his Fall/Winter 1995 collection. A satin skirt attached to a wool bodice beautifully hugs the curves of the body.
Versace Runway Lizard-Effect Leather Mini Skirt, Fall-Winter 1994-1995
By Gianni Versace
Located in Geneva, CH
Credit photos : Picture n° 3 -> Carla Bruni via Vogue/Condé Nast Archive in the Versace FW1994-1995 show, look 58 Pictures n° 4 & 5 -> Nadja Auermann, Christy Turlington, Claudia Sc...
F/W 1995 Gianni Versace Chartreuse Green Silk Gown Dress Runway Documented
By Gianni Versace, Gianni Versace Couture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This dress was designed by Gianni Versace for the Fall/Winter 1995 collection and debuted as look 62 on Shalom Harlow, who also starred in the season's ad campaign shot by Richard Av...
Gianni Versace Fall 1995 Purple Coat
By Gianni Versace
Located in New York, NY
VINTAGE GRACE NY Gianni Versace Fall 1995 Purple Coat. A fun and unique piece for all of the seasons, accessorized with iconic Versace Medusa buttons throughout.
Vintage Versace Flashy Green Dress with Iconic Neckline
By Gianni Versace, Versace Jeans Couture
Located in Paris, FR
The original dress has been first presented for Atelier Versace Fall 1995. The archive picture has been taken by Richard Avedon.
Gianni Versace Striped Knit Dress Fall 1995
By Gianni Versace
Located in W1, GB
Gianni Versace red and fuschia striped knit dress from the Fall 1995 collection.
Max Nugus Haute Couture 1990s Size 6 8 Pink Brown Ombre Chiffon Vintage 90s Gown
By Max Nugus, Max Nugus Haute Couture
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous 1990s MAX NUGUS HAUTE COUTURE ombre beaded silk chiffon full length evening dress! Warm colors of pink, peach and brown. Strapless underlay with an attached intricately bead...
Missoni Colorful Silk Halter Dress
By Missoni
Located in Water Mill, NY
A fabulous colorful fine silk knit halter dress from Missoni in a red, orange, blue, yellow, white, lavender and black abstract pattern. It slips on over the head and has 2 black str...
$1,454Sale Price|20% Off
Size: 37
New Gucci 90th Anniversary Ad Runway Python Snakeskin Pump Heels Sz 37
By Gucci
Located in Conroe, TX
Gucci Brand New From Gucci's 90th anniversary Fall Runway show, Frida Giannini cited her influence was Anjelica Huston $1815 * Python Heels * Rare Ad Runway Heels * Size: 37 * Yel...
Gucci Alligator and Leather Boots Rare Fall Winter 2005 Sz 8
By Gucci
Located in Conroe, TX
Worn Twice Uppers are Perfect 2005 Runway Show * Gucci * U.S. Size: 8 * Soft Brown Leather * Alligator Uppers * Gold Buckle * 4.25" Heel * Gold Leather Lining * With Gucci Boot Dust ...
$585
Size: Recommended Size; UK 6 - 10.
Unsigned Pink Animée Colourful Cartoon and Fox Fur two-way Jacket / Coat
Located in Sheffield, GB
A delightful Vintage Fox Fur coat (Circa 2000) that can be reversed to a playful, colourful cartoon print jacket with fun, pink jewelled rhinestone buttons. Recommended Size; UK 6 -...
$948Sale Price|25% Off
Size: Medium
1960s Guy Laroche Couture Lipstick Red Virgin Wool A Line Vintage 60s Mini Dress
By Guy Laroche
Located in San Diego, CA
1960s GUY LAROCHE Couture lipstick red virgin wool A-Line mini dress! The perfect alternative to a little black dress, this red gem is sure to stand out! Hand made, with the utmost a...
Dolce & Gabbana Midnight-Black Body-Hugging Spandex Built-In Bra Evening Dress
By Dolce & Gabbana
Located in New York, NY
Dolce & Gabbana body-hugging midnight-black evening dress is fully lined with their signature leopard print. This wonderful evening dress has a matching built-in bra for a "pe...
UNWORN Rare Gucci by Tom Ford SS 1996 Black Lace Mini Dress Gown 38
By Tom Ford for Gucci, Gucci
Located in Switzerland, CH
Stunning Gucci by Tom Ford lace dress From his SS 1996 collection for Gucci Finest black lace Fully lined with nude silk Made in Italy Dry Clean Only Size 38 Seen in the AD campaig...
UNWORN Christian Dior by John Galliano Deep Cleavage Laceup Silk Dress 4
By John Galliano for Christian Dior, Christian Dior
Located in Switzerland, CH
This dress is a variation of Goldie Hawn's Golden Globe Dress created exclusively by John Galliano An extremely luxurious and CHRISTIAN DIOR signature piece that will last you for y...
Chanel Lurex Linen Mini Tote
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
Chanel Mini Tote in lurex linen with gold leather lining. Linen is metallic gold with over quilting with signature chain handles. Charming miniature shopping bag size with logo clasp...
$7,920
H 6.7 in W 13 in L 5.9 in
Chanel Bowling Bag Luxury Ligne Leather As Seen On Ivanka Trump Red Lambskin Bag
By Chanel
Located in Miami, FL
As seen on Ivanka Trump, this is a gorgeous luxury ligne Chanel satchel in excellent condition.
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent " Rive Gauche " Polka Dot Red & White Corset Bustier
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in San Diego, CA
Sexy vintage YSL Rive Gauche red & white polka dot bustier/corset top.built in waistband support. Fully lined, and easily transitions from day to night. In great condition. Never wo...
S/S 1998 Gucci by Tom Ford Leather Strap Bodycon Black Top Skirt Suit G buckle
By Tom Ford for Gucci, Gucci
Located in Алматинский Почтамт, KZ
S/S 1998 Gucci by Tom Ford Leather Strap Bodycon Black Top Skirt Suit Gucci G buckle Runway 1990s S/S 1998 Gucci by Tom Ford G Buckle Strap Tank Top Thong Skirt Set Black Knit Desig...
1990S ISSEY MIYAKE White Cotton Engineered Mesh Circular Knit Dress With Pocke
By Issey Miyake
Located in New York, NY
1990S ISSEY MIYAKE White Cotton Engineered Mesh Circular Knit Dress With Pockets
AnnaCat 1960's Japonesque Silk Dress
By AnnaCat
Located in Sharon, CT
A swinging London 60's Maxi Dress with a Japonesque nod by the important Bromton Road London Boutique-AnnaCat.. Printed silk fabric from Asher of Liberty in a Japan type pattern. Ne...
Alexander McQueen A/W 2005 "The Man Who Knew Too Much" Leopard Fur Jacket Skirt
By Alexander McQueen
Located in Thiensville, WI
Alexander McQueen A/W 2005 "The Man Who Knew Too Much" Leopard Print Silk Jacket Pencil Skirt Set Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: Autumn / Winter 2005 “The Man W...
The signature extravagance of legendary fashion designer Gianni Versace — forever aligned with glamour, sex, celebrity and spectacle — can overshadow the Italian couturier’s broad and deep engagement with history and culture. Today, his vintage dresses and gowns, handbags, sunglasses and other accessories look astonishingly fresh and freshly relevant.
More than any designer before him, Versace mined celebrity, music and Pop art for inspiration, and his subversive, maximalist and unabashedly seductive designs infused high fashion with an entirely new ethos. “I don’t believe in good taste,” he once explained. Instead, he had a sexy good time with fashion — as he did with life.
Gianni Versace was born in Calabria, Italy. His mother was a successful dressmaker who employed more than 40 seamstresses. As a child, little Gianni marveled at her workshop, which would become a university of sorts, where he learned the exceptional construction techniques that were at the foundation of his creative expression.
In 1972, at age 25, he moved to Milan to work in fashion. He launched his first collection — and his label — in 1978, with his older brother Santo managing the business concerns. Soon, sister Donatella, whom Gianni dressed and took to discos when she was still a child, joined the family venture, where she had a creative role and managed enormously popular ready-to-wear lines such as Versus.
Vintage Versace — and Gianni Versace Couture, which debuted in 1989 — has become catnip for modern fashion enthusiasts who seek out the now-iconic house codes that originated in the designs of the 1980s and 1990s. His glamorous and seductive apparel — the clingy skirts and slender, strappy party dresses, as well as the erotic magazine ads that publicized them — looms large, but Versace’s art and historical influences were also vast.
Versace was an art collector, and he took on commissions to create costumes for theatrical performances during the 1980s and spoke of looking to numerous cultures for inspiration. The New York Times noted in 1997 that the fashion industry “is now driven by contemporary culture because Mr. Versace made it that way.”
Insiders consider his 1991/1992 Autumn/Winter runway show — which featured supermodels Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista lip-synching George Michael’s “Freedom” — as the moment when the two worlds of fashion and pop culture became one, changing both forever.
Versace's adventurous spirit of design resulted in his creating jewel-toned prints rooted in Grecian motifs, Etruscan symbols, the Italian Baroque and Andy Warholʼs Marilyn Monroe. There were slinky dresses in Oroton, his patented chain-mail textile that draped like satin, and leather bondage ensembles. Sex sold, for both women and men. Wrote the late curator Richard Martin, “[Versace] became the standard-bearer of gay men’s fashion because he eschewed decorum and designed for desire.”
Following Versace’s tragic murder in 1997, Donatella took over the role of artistic director and continued to evolve the house codes with a twist of her feminine and feminist perspective. Today, Santo Versace is chief executive officer of Versace and Donatella is its chief creative officer.
Browse an extraordinary collection of vintage Gianni Versace evening dresses, handbags, day dresses and more on 1stDibs.
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.
Start building your collection of covetable and iconic vintage clothing today — no matter where you roam, there is a curated selection of designer dresses and gowns, sweaters, shirts, dazzling shoes and more on 1stDibs that will keep you covered in the hottest styles from head to toe.
From elegant museum-worthy vintage Chanel dresses and jackets to audacious T-shirts and trousers from provocative punk designer Vivienne Westwood, one thing is abundantly clear: If the clothing for sale on 1stDibs could talk, it would certainly make a statement.
For fashion lovers, the 1990s have become associated with styles adopted by today’s supermodels and influencers — think John Galliano and Roberto Cavalli — but maybe ‘80s accessories are among your (guilty?) pleasures.
Playful, boldly colored coats and outerwear from Moschino, Ralph Lauren and other titans of the era can take a simpler ensemble to the next level, while chic and practical suits from the likes of Christian Dior and Balmain endure for haute couture advocates and beyond.
And vintage is the name of the game on today’s red carpets, too. Celebrity stylists are turning to archival pieces created by the likes of Bob Mackie, Thierry Mugler and Jean-Paul Gaultier as alternatives to new gowns plucked straight off the runway. Wearing such sought-after items gives celebrities instant allure and suggests a personal style that’s not only achingly glamorous but intellectually informed and influenced by a love of craftsmanship.
Those seeking contemporary luxury looks and in-demand street-style fits can indulge in designs by Bottega Veneta, Miu Miu and Loro Piana, while pieces from Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Versace endure as examples of fashion’s most covetable goods.
The future — and glamorous past — of fashion is yours for the wearing. Find vintage clothing and accessories for sale on 1stDibs, including designs by Balenciaga, Valentino, Celine, Loewe and more.