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NEW! Louis Vuitton Monogram Crystal Cube Desk Table Paper Weight in Box
By Louis Vuitton
Located in Chicago, IL
NEW! Louis Vuitton Monogram Crystal Cube Desk Table Decorative Paper Weight in Box
Heavy and substantial, this statement home good is the ideal accent for any study, den, office or ...
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21st Century and Contemporary French For The Desk
Louis Vuitton Special Order Keepall Large Men's Travel Weekend Sport Duffle Bag
By Louis Vuitton
Located in Chicago, IL
Monogram canvas
Leather trim
Fabric lining
Gold tone hardware
Zipper closure
Handle drop 6"
Measures 32.5" W x 15" H x 4.75" D
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21st Century and Contemporary French Top Handle Bags
Chanel Black Gray CC Bucket Top Handle Travel Slingback Backpack Shoulder Bag
By Chanel
Located in Chicago, IL
Chanel Black Gray CC Men's Women's Bucket Beach TerryTop Handle Travel Slingback Backpack Shoulder Bag
Terry cloth
Woven lining
Drawstring closure
Made in Italy
Adjustable shoulder ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Trunks and Luggage
New! Hermes Multicolor Yellow Multi Wood Savana Animal Leopard Skateboard in Box
By Hermès
Located in Chicago, IL
New Condition
Wood
Kryptonics wheels
Made in France
Measures 7.25" W x 23.75" L x 3.9" H
Includes box
100% authenticity guaranteed by NEWFOUND LUXURY
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21st Century and Contemporary French Toys
Hermes Black Red Gold Dog Home Decorative Couch Chair Throw Pillow
By Hermès
Located in Chicago, IL
Silk-Cotton blend
Zipper closure
Measures 17" W x 17"H
100% authenticity guaranteed
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21st Century and Contemporary Pillows and Throws
LOUIS VUITTON Damier Canvas Gold Leather Trunk Travel Case
By Louis Vuitton
Located in Chicago, IL
Pre-Owned Vintage Condition
Damier Canvas
Leather
Includes Keys
W 17.7 x H 13.4 x D 5.5 "
Handle Drop 2.5"
100% Authenticity Guaranteed
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21st Century and Contemporary Luggage and Travel Bags
LOUIS VUITTON x Stephen Sprouse Monogram White Graffiti Keepall 50 Travel Duffle
By Louis Vuitton
Located in Chicago, IL
Pre-Owned Vintage Condition
From 2001 Collection
Monogram Canvas
Leather
Includes Handle Holder, Name Tag
W 20.1 " x H 11.8 " x D 8.7 "
Handle Drop 3.5 "
100% Authenticity Guaranteed
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21st Century and Contemporary Duffel Bags and Carry-On Bags
LOUIS VUITTON Monogram Canvas Cosmetic Vanity Travel Trunk Case
By Louis Vuitton
Located in Chicago, IL
Pre-Owned Vintage Condition
Monogram Canvas
Leather
Includes Insert, Keys, Name Tag, Dust Bag
W 8.5 x H 7.9 x D 11.6 "
Handle Drop 1.5"
100% Authenticity Guaranteed
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21st Century and Contemporary Trunks and Luggage
LOUIS VUITTON Monogram Camouflage Keepall 55 Travel Duffle Bag
By Louis Vuitton
Located in Chicago, IL
Pre-Owned Vintage Condition
From 2008 Collection
Monogram Canvas
Leather
Includes Shoulder Strap, Name Tag, Handle Holder, Dust Bag
W 22.0 x H 11.8 x D 9.8 "
Handle Drop 4"
Shoulder ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Duffel Bags and Carry-On Bags
LOUIS VUITTON Monogram Canvas Gold Large Travel Suitcase Trunk
By Louis Vuitton
Located in Chicago, IL
Pre-Owned Vintage Condition
Monogram Canvas
Leather
Includes Name Tag
W 27.6 x H 18.5 x D 7.1 "
Handle Drop. 2.75 "
100% Authenticity Guaranteed
bisten 70
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21st Century and Contemporary Suitcases and Trunks
Louis Vuitton NEW Limited Edition Black Leather Toy Novelty Teddy Bear in Box
By Louis Vuitton
Located in Chicago, IL
Leather
Monogram canvas
Made in France
Measures 8" W x 10" H
Includes dust bag and box
100% authenticity guaranteed
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21st Century and Contemporary French Toys
LOUIS VUITTON Monogram Canvas Leather Trim Gold Novelty World Cup Soccer Ball
By Louis Vuitton
Located in Chicago, IL
Pre-Owned Vintage Condition
From 1998 Collection
Monogram Canvas
Leather Trim
Diameter 8"
Includes Inflator and Dust Bag
100% Authenticity Guaranteed by NEWFOUND LUXURY
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Late 20th Century Toys
LOUIS VUITTON Pegase 60 LV Monogram Camouflage Gold Roller Bag Travel Suitcase
By Louis Vuitton
Located in Chicago, IL
Pre-Owned Vintage Condition
From 2021 Collection
Monogram Canvas
Leather Trim
Gold Tone Hardware
Nylon Lining
Measures 21.25" W x 14.25" H x 7" D
Handle Drop 0.75"
Includes Dust Bag...
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21st Century and Contemporary Luggage and Travel Bags
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Vintage Cartier Handmade Sterling Silver Small Woven Basket with Handle
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Gucci Italy Rare Sterling Silver Sleek Lipstick Vanity Mirror Case c 1970s
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Gucci Italy Rare sterling silver lipstick vanity mirror case c 1970s
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Couture MartinMargiela 1998 WorkOnPaper & Artisanal Line0 WhiteLingerie BoxedSet
By Maison Martin Margiela, Martin Margiella
Located in Chicago, IL
As conceptual art while he transitioned to Hermes Creative Director in 1998, Belgian Martin Margiela--whose creations today debut in the setting of a contemporary-art gallery priced at upwards of EU$150,000--created this stenciled or block print. Conceived by arguably the most culturally influential contemporary fashion designer since Gabriel "Coco" Chanel, it is part of a limited-edition-of-two white-boxed set that includes the couture Maison Martin Margiela "Artisanal Line 0" body-harness lingerie in its maker's signature color white for Spring 1998.
The same lingerie--one white and the other black--starred in a film made by Margiela among the five that he screened to present his Spring/Summer 1998 "Flat Collection" in Paris at the Conciergerie. In that film titled "4", which begins with a view of the iconic topless tabi "boots", the hands of Margiela's white-labcoat-clad assistants enter the frame to manipulate different garments on a model who initially wears the exterior lingerie (see our photos) as if jewelry. A simple dark collared coat, a white collared button-down shirt, and a dark button-down cardigan--all with the "displaced neckline" or "displaced shoulder" of the flat-hanging clothes--are transformed into new collarless plunging v-neck garments, which appear to be ruched when folded under the harness of the lingerie.
Both black versions of the lingerie are in museum collections. In Martin Margiela's home-country, the ModeMuseum (MoMu) archived its collected piece as OBJ7660. In the 2018 Parisian retrospective exhibition at Musee de la Mode/Palais Galleria when its artistic director was Martin Margiela (working with Curator Alexandre Samson), the second black lingerie was featured on a mannequin and collected the same year by the Vogue Paris Foundation. Other conceptual designs from this same 1998 collection of jewelry were acquired by TheMet museum in Manhattan.
Without the restriction of the use and function of clothing, the small uncreased print--on a card that can be removed from the interior-box bottom that it loosely spans--shows the buyer how to endlessly fashion unique tops using the structural-elastic lingerie as an undergarment for their own pre-worn button-down shirts.
This is a more obvious example of the once avant-garde concept of anti-fashion upcycling that Martin Margiela introduced to challenge social and fashion-industry norms by the 1990s, which echos the revolutionary anti-art of Marcel Duchamp. Essentially, valuable art/fashion can be made from everyday vintage objects. While Duchamp did so in 1917 with a men's porcelain urinal titled "Fountain" attached to a gallery exhibition wall, they both made the point that it is the way that such items are reassembled that can make the result a progressive statement.
What makes the print so special and worthy of framing for display is that, without words, the three numbered images on a single white card encapsulate the before-its-time fashion manifesto of Martin Margiela to recycle fashion in remarkable new wearable ways, such as harnessed by his unique lingerie. According to The New York Times in its 2021 feature-story that reflected on his radical fashion design and delved into his crossover art, Margiela "changed how we dressed in the 1990s", while his art embodies "the visionary man he has always been."
At a turning-point shortly after Margiela designed this couture set in 1997, his personal manifesto became more difficult to accomplish in his fashion career as the new leader of France's historic luxury fashion-house Hermes, for which his first womenswear collection was presented for Autumn/Winter 1998. Frustrated by the limitations of the industrialized luxury trade and conglomerate conflicts with his closely guarded privacy, the famously "invisible" designer pre-maturely retired from the fashion industry in 2009 to independently build on his clever artistry in other mediums. Margiela continues to demonstrate what he often told his fashion teams: "The less you have, the more creative you are as a designer."
This minimal finely-crafted lingerie without size or gender restriction--composed of adjustable "polya-elasthanne" straps with a clear anti-slip strip on the underside and three silver-plated metal double-rings--can be worn either as a concealed structural undergarment or as a visible jewelry-like body harness in appreciation of its meaning as a foundation for recycling fashion, pure form, and meaningful color. While the initial Maison Martin Margiela ready-to-wear brand tag until the late 1990s was a distinct corner-sewn unbranded white label accompanied by tags for origin and materials/care, the couture version for this lingerie is a single tiny white unbranded tag stitched in a line near the end of the waist strap, noting in English, "Made In France," with succinct material/care identification.
The set's original white unbranded box and its white black-typed couture-identification sticker complete the "invisible-brand" aesthetic. We interpret the black-type codes on the aged box-sticker (“E98 ST HAUT; Struct Elas Blanc; 02; TU"): Spring 1998 Haute Couture; white structural-elastic garment; Artisanal Line 0 edition of two; one size only.
The print, lingerie and box are in very good condition as shown in the photos with only one mark on the rear edge of the exterior box-lid. Although initially tried on by the sole owner to realize a restructured shirt, the lingerie body-harness was never worn. It was collected in Belgium at the Brussels boutique where Martin Margiela initially sold his brand with his founding business-partner Jenny Meirens since 1988.
Prior, Margiela worked for several years as a fashion-design assistant to Parisian Jean Paul Gaultier. Both designers have since received independent museum retrospectives internationally--from Paris' Grand Palais and Musee Palais Galliera (The City of Paris Fashion Museum) to NYC's The Brooklyn Museum and Antwerp's MoMu. While others continue to try, Martin Margiela (b.1957) is the only leading fashion designer to have made a full-time transition to the commercial contemporary-art world with such highly valued works.
As a rare revealing piece of both fashion and art history, the increasing value of this Maison Martin Margiela 1997...
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Size: TU one size only
Barbie Fashion Model / "Spa Getaway" / Barbie Doll Gift Set
Located in Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine, FR
Barbie Fashion Model / "Spa Getaway" / Barbie Doll Gift Set.
Certificate of Authenticity.
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Early 2000s American Toys
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Located in Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine, FR
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Barbie Fashion Model / "The Ingenue" / Gold Label
Located in Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine, FR
Barbie Fashion Model / "The Ingenue" / Gold Label.
14140 copies worldwide.
Certificate of authenticity and Collector Card
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