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Vintage Carlo Zini Diamante and Blue Cabochon Dangling Necklace Sautoir Circa 2000s. This is one of those pieces for when you go out or want to make a statement. The photograph doesn...

Vintage Art Deco Dangling Enamel and Diamante Pendant. Based on a Cartier Design from the 1920s. Has green and yellow enamel with dangling green crystals and diamante pieces. This ...

Vintage Nettie Rosenstein Antique Gold/Silver Dangling Faux Tortoise Bracelet Circa 1960s. The wash is between a Silver and washed-out Gold. The pi...

Vintage Christian Lacroix Paris Gold Bracelet with Dangling Crystals. My favorite Lacroix piece! There are long bars with crystals in between, and then large, round crystals hang fr...

Collectible Saint Laurent Bronze Tone Heavy Cuff Bracelet. Very much the look of the Brutalist with the way many of the designers of the 2010s have...

CHRISTIAN LACROIX's rare, massive, ethnic tribal-inspired four-strand gold-toned choker necklace features links and rings. Both ends are made of deep red studded enamel embellished with orange resin cabochons. This is one of the unique and unusual pieces that Lacroix created. This is a spectacular piece. Truly special in the world of jewelry. Hook clasp closure. Adjustable length. Marked CHRISTIAN LACROIX CL Made in France. Indicative measurements: adjustable length from approx. 30 cm (11.81 inches) to approx. 37 cm (14.57 inches) / width approx. 7 cm (2.76 inches) About the Designer Christian Lacroix At a time when sharp, padded shoulders and crisp lines were trending, Christian Lacroix created venturesome clothing that was bubbly, flirtatious, and exuberant. The iconic French fashion designer, whose work includes handbags and purses, evening dresses, jackets, and lots more, has always favored theater over fashion. He has long incorporated corsets and bustles into his work, drawing on diverse cultures and citing epic historical dramas as sources of inspiration. Today, he is creating opera costumes...

Vintage Maison Goossens Yves Saint Laurent YSL Rock Crystal Collar Heavy Necklace. Couture at its best. Long and Short Pieces of Gold Tone Spikes. B...

Vintage Beaded Black Choker with Dangling Poms Poms and Beads. Attributed to Yves Saint Laurent YSL but not signed. Tres Chic. 13"L 1.25" W around the ...

Vintage Christian Lacroix Paris Gold Cross with Cabochons Necklace. Has a Grasshopper in the Middle. I have attached a black cord to this, but you can use any chain you have. The co...

Vintage Gold Tone and Faux Turquoise Bracelet. Has Small White Stones with Crystals Inside. This is a Substantial Piece and is Well-Made. This is one of my favorite bracelets, as i...

Vintage Yves Saint Lauren YSL Couture Gold Tone with Large Blue Crystals. These are spectacular. The Couture pieces are not signed. If...

Collectible Chanel Gold Choker Necklace with Pieces of Wheat making up the Necklace. It is Made Purposely Uneven, with one side being Longer than the other. It is 14-16" L and 1.5...

Vintage Yves Saint Laurent YSL 3 Strand Pearl and Blue Bead Necklace Circa 1990s. Quite Different. The Three Strands have three beads mixed in ...

Vintage Pennino Sapphire Blue and Crystal Double ended Brooch. Bouquets on Either End. This is such an unusual brooch and looks like fine jewelry. It ...

Vintage Christian Lacroix Enamel and Faux Pearl Cross. Gold Tone with Pink under the Gold. Pearl sits in the middle. It could be worn on a Link Neckl...

Vintage Coro Craft Sterling Gold Leaf Brooch with Flowers Circa 1940s. Leaf with Elevated Branches of Flowers in Aquamarine Colors and Clear Crystals. This...

Collectible Augustine Silver Tone Necklace with Green Gripoix Flower and Pieces. Long Sautoir with a Flower at the End and a Dangling Green Gripoix Piece. Gripoix is always classic a...

Vintage Yves Saint Lauren YSL Gold Tone Couture with Large Crystals Circa 1980s. Vintage French Gold Tone with Large Crystals. These are spectacular. Clip On. The Couture pieces...

Vintage Pennino Sapphire Blue and Crystal Flower Earrings. These aren't real, but they do look it. Clip On. There is a Brooch on the Site tha...

Vintage Deanna Hamro Dusty Rose Pearl Choker. Four rows of Dusty Rose Pearls on Gold Bars with Pearls with Long Chains and Dangling Pearls. Always a Chic Ch...

Vintage YSL Gold Tone with Varying Shades of Pink and Crystal. Clip On. Another YSL that is just magnificent. These are definitely from the 1980s, but they remain so relevant today and are not mass-market products. When you have these, you have them forever. These are true collectibles to be handed down. They match anything. Wear a black outfit, white outfit...

Vintage YSL Pink and Amber Color Dangling Earrings. They are two round discs on top of each other to form these earrings. As they are Slightly Domed, you see earrings almost all th...

Vintage Atalante Heavy Gold Tone Hoops. Made in France. Atalante Made Jewelry for YSL. Well Made and Heavy. Clip On. These are so well-made and so chic. These are the epitome of what walked down the runways of Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent in the 1980s. So stylish and will always be in style. Gold hoops with an edge! If you remind me, I will send Velcro dots, which will allow you to do cartwheels and wear them for hours. Trick of the trade from the models in Paris. Velcro dots from Amazon that allow all clip...

Vintage Celine Dangling Globe and Arc De Triomphe Pieces. Such a Classic Piece. I just love this piece, and I think it's incredibly classy. Something about it. It is weighty and just...

Vintage Christian Lacroix Dangling Crystal Silver Tone Brooch with varying shades of Amber, Red and Purple surrounded by Faux Turquoise and Silver Branches...

Maison Gripoix Vintage White and Light Purple Dangling Earrings. These will always be in style. The Chanel look has never left. It is classic and timeless, conveying a sense of class. It is an elevated look. No matter what you wear, these will look right. A Chanel suit or jeans and a white t-shirt with a blazer. You look stunning and done. These are all you need. Clip on. This look will always walk down the Chanel runway in one form or another. I will send you Velcro dots to hold them on, and you can do cartwheels in these earrings. The models in Paris wear them, and you can quickly wear them for 20 hours. Please ask for them. Guy de Maupassant wrote a famous story about a necklace. The story is about a young, pretty, intelligent, well-educated but poorly endowed bride who has to marry a petty official; thus, suffering from the limitations of living a life with a husband that lacked any exquisite qualities. One day, to entertain his dejected spouse, her husband receives an invitation to a ball and gives his wife the 400 francs he had saved for a hunting rifle so that she can order an appropriate dress. However, when the dress is ready, it becomes clear that it is lacking jewelry, and it would be impossible to attend the ball while looking so poor. The protagonist approaches her wealthy childhood friend, with whom she was raised at the monastery, and borrows a diamond necklace from her. The ball is a great success, and she is the centre of attention. However, when the woman returns home, she discovers that she has lost the necklace. To conceal her faux pas from her friend, she buys a new necklace identical to the one she lost. To pay it off, the woman gets into a huge debt, which, over the years, gradually drags her down the social ladder from the bourgeoisie to poverty. Ten years later, having lost her good looks, the woman encounters her friend on the Champs Elysees, who still looks young, beautiful, and rich. The protagonist reveals to her friend the entire story about the necklace, but her friend replies in amazement that the diamonds were fake and would “cost 500 francs at most.” Maison Gripoix starts out with a dramatic story. In 1869 (or a year earlier, according to other sources), Paris master glassmaker Augustina Gripoix began creating replicas of pearls and crystals, casting glass into various shapes and colors and inserting them into the most sophisticated settings. She used the pâte de verre (glass paste) technique, whereby a traditional ceramic or gypsum form was filled with a multi-colour piece of glass and special gluing substances and then baked in a furnace, resulting in objects featuring fantastical hues. Only Augustina made her crystals by pouring the melted glass paste into the press moulds, skipping the furnace step, allowing her to achieve the purity of colour, transparency, and shine. She found a simple method to create beautiful jewelry, and thus, Marquises, Duchesses, and Princesses queued up. Madame Gripoix would then create replicas of their own jewelry in case of robbery or loss, or unusual pieces for their new wraps, neckpieces, or boas. The so-called ‘costume jewelry’ emerged to a large extent thanks to the work of Maison Gripoix. Augustina Gripoix earned her fame in the 1890s when she began creating necklaces for Sarah Bernhardt to wear on stage and later designed costume jewelry for the first high fashion house of Charles Frederick Worth. Later on, Paul Poiret, the leading couturier of 1910, contacted her, and she created sophisticated Oriental-style jewelry for him to match his famous Oriental costumes, based on the aesthetic of Diaghilev’s initial Russian seasons. The value of costume jewelry was now being recognized in its own right and not just for imitation purposes. The taste of emancipated young girls, who were gaining more and more freedom and opportunities, was best met with bijouterie. So in the 1920s, when Augustina’s daughter Susan became the head of the House, Gripoix prospects became even more exciting. Girls with short-cropped hair in short dresses zoomed by in open-top cars wearing bijou rather than diamonds. Everyone ordered bijouterie from Madam Gripoix during this period, from Jeanne Lanvin to Jean Piguet; however, the best relationship Gripoix had was with Gabrielle Chanel. It is well-known that Chanel, a fan of large jewelry with large stones, made bijouterie super fashionable. Chanel brought copies of Byzantine jewelry to Susanne Gripoix. She asked her to create the pieces in that same style, requesting, “Let everyone think that this jewelry is not new, but found somewhere on an excavation site nearby Rue Camborne.” She was so satisfied with the result of her order that she remained a faithful client of Gripoix for several decades. This was how the famous byzantine style of Chanel jewelry was brought to life, fancying golden Maltese crosses with large multicolor stones and matching bracelets, cabochons, and massive brooches, all of which have become a part of the Gripoix Chanel liked to combine both natural and imitation stones in a single item; for example, she would pair natural and imitation pearls in a single necklace. Gripoix made them in such a way that it was impossible to distinguish between them. Susanne Gripoix created unique, irregularly shaped glass pearls for Chanel, imitating baroque pearls. They were enameled in her workshops with mother-of-pearl to obtain some of the soft shine characteristic of natural pearls . As the leading supplier to the couturier houses in Paris, Gripoix collaborated with many renowned designers, including Cristóbal Balenciaga, Pierre Balmain, and Christian Dior, as well as Yves Saint Laurent and, later, Christian Lacroix and Marc Jacobs. However, it was the cooperation with Chanel that was the most significant, both for Chanel and for Gripoix. Today, Gripoix is no longer a family-owned company, but the House still crafts jewelry, although the style has undergone considerable changes over the last few years. The jewelry has become more straightforward, more graphical, and even minimalistic. In 2011, however, Gripoix and Catherine Baba...

Maison Gripoix Vintage Blue, Green, and Red Dangling Earrings. These will always look classic and in style. This look never leaves the mood board....

Vintage Christian Lacroix Dangling Gold Tone Pearl Brooch with Pearl, Crystal, Cabochon, and Small Crystals in Gilded Cage Heart with Dangling Pear Shaped Faux Pearl. This is espec...

Vintage Anne Klein Toggle Necklace with Blue Disc. Can be worn doubled around the neck as shown. This is a round, heavy, matte gold link toggle chain fe...

Maison Gripoix Vintage Red and Green Flower Dangling Earrings Set in Gold Tone. These are some of the most stunning earrings in my collection. The colors, of course, and the way they are made. They are just exceptional. They will always be relevant. They are well-made and make a statement. They are just classy and chic. Clip On. Always In Style. Clip on. I also have them in blue. Acquired in Paris. Guy de Maupassant wrote a famous story about a necklace. The story is about a young, pretty, intelligent, well-educated but poorly endowed bride who has to marry a petty official; thus, suffering from the limitations of living a life with a husband that lacked any exquisite qualities. One day, to entertain his dejected spouse, her husband receives an invitation to a ball and gives his wife the 400 francs he had saved for a hunting rifle so that she can order an appropriate dress. However, when the dress is ready, it becomes clear that it is lacking jewelry, and it would be impossible to attend the ball while looking so poor. The protagonist approaches her wealthy childhood friend, with whom she was raised at the monastery, and borrows a diamond necklace from her. The ball is a great success, and she is the centre of attention. However, when the woman returns home, she discovers that she has lost the necklace. To conceal her faux pas from her friend, she buys a new necklace identical to the one she lost. To pay it off, the woman gets into a huge debt, which, over the years, gradually drags her down the social ladder from the bourgeoisie to poverty. Ten years later, having lost her good looks, the woman encounters her friend on the Champs Elysees, who still looks young, beautiful, and rich. The protagonist reveals to her friend the entire story about the necklace, but her friend replies in amazement that the diamonds were fake and would “cost 500 francs at most.” Maison Gripoix starts out with a dramatic story. In 1869 (or a year earlier, according to other sources), Paris master glassmaker Augustina Gripoix began creating replicas of pearls and crystals, casting glass into various shapes and colors and setting them in the most sophisticated settings. She used the pâte de verre (glass paste) technique, whereby a traditional ceramic or gypsum form was filled with a multi-colour piece of glass and special gluing substances and then baked in a furnace, resulting in objects featuring fantastical hues. Only Augustina made her crystals by pouring the melted glass paste into the press moulds, skipping the furnace step, allowing her to achieve the purity of colour, transparency, and shine. She found a simple method to create beautiful jewelry, and thus, Marquises, Duchesses, and Princesses queued up. Madame Gripoix would then create replicas of their own jewelry in case of robbery, loss, or for unusual pieces to be used in their new wraps, neckpieces, or boas. The so-called ‘costume jewelry’ emerged to a large extent thanks to the work of Maison Gripoix. Augustina Gripoix earned her fame in the 1890s when she began creating necklaces for Sarah Bernhardt to wear on stage and later designed costume jewelry for the first high fashion house of Charles Frederick Worth. Later, Paul Poiret, the leading couturier of 1910, contacted her, and she created sophisticated Oriental-style jewelry for him to match his famous Oriental costumes, based on the aesthetic of Diaghilev’s initial Russian seasons. The value of costume jewelry was now being recognized in its own right and not just for imitation purposes. The taste of emancipated young girls, who were gaining more and more freedom and opportunities, was best met with bijouterie. So in the 1920s, when Augustina’s daughter Susan became the head of the House, Gripoix prospects became even more exciting. Girls with short-cropped hair in short dresses zoomed by in open-top cars wearing bijou rather than diamonds. Everyone ordered bijouterie from Madam Gripoix during this period, from Jeanne Lanvin to Jean Piguet; however, the best relationship Gripoix had was with Gabrielle Chanel. It is well-known that Chanel, a fan of large jewelry with large stones, made bijouterie super fashionable. Chanel brought copies of Byzantine jewelry to Susanne Gripoix. She asked her to create the pieces in that same style, requesting, “Let everyone think that this jewelry is not new, but found somewhere on an excavation site nearby Rue Camborne.” She was so satisfied with the result of her order that she remained a faithful client of Gripoix for several decades. This was how the famous byzantine style of Chanel jewelry was brought to life, fancying golden Maltese crosses with large multicolor stones and matching bracelets, cabochons, and massive brooches, all of which have become a part of the Gripoix Chanel liked to combine both natural and imitation stones in a single item; for example, she would pair natural and imitation pearls in a single necklace. Gripoix made them in such a way that it was impossible to distinguish between them. Susanne Gripoix created exceptional, irregularly shaped pearls from glass for Chanel, imitating the baroque pearls. They were enameled in her workshops with mother-of-pearl to obtain some of the soft shine characteristic of natural pearls . As the leading supplier to the couturier houses in Paris, Gripoix collaborated with many renowned designers, including Cristóbal Balenciaga, Pierre Balmain, and Christian Dior, as well as Yves Saint Laurent and, later, Christian Lacroix and Marc Jacobs. However, it was the cooperation with Chanel that was the most significant, both for Chanel and for Gripoix. Today, Gripoix is no longer a family-owned company, but the House still crafts jewelry, although the style has undergone considerable changes over the last few years. The jewelry has become more straightforward, more graphical, and even minimalistic. In 2011, however, Gripoix and Catherine Baba...

Vintage Christian Lacroix Bronze Tone Resin and Crystal Brooch. So Different than what I have seen. Looks Great on a White or Black Shirt. Al...

Vintage Christian Lacroix Gold Tone Heart Brooch with lots of Design and has Initials CL carved in the Middle of the Misshapen Heart Brooch. Lacroix is a classic. Lacroix says hi...