50s Wool Coat by Zelinka Matlick Military Style Tailored Sculptural Collar Rare

Authentic, preowned, vintage Sonia Rykiel Paris rain coat with hood, striped wool collar & cuffs, likely made in the 1990s. Fastens with a zipper and snaps, and features a funnel n...

This incredibly supple black suede jacket was designed by Jean Muir in the late 1970s. Made from black suede leather, it fastens with lucite barrel buttons and has a perforated bord...

This stunning Versace coat exudes luxury and style, crafted from rich pony hair fur that adds a unique texture and depth to the piece. The bold mix of animal prints in neutral tones ...

In the 1930s when French fashion couturier Jeanne Lanvin (1867-1946) was creating decorative bias-cut silk tulle overlays for her feminine full-skirted sleeveless "robes de style", she designed this black semi-transparent silk-tulle formal jacket featuring diagonally-striped topstitched silk-crepe appliques throughout the bias-cut panels. This sheer geometric-patterned cape-like jacket has a skirt that drapes from an open waistline and a top-fastening bodice with gathered rounded 3/4-length sleeves that each have two arm seams and shirred embroidered cuffs. It could have been the first "swing coat" design that was given that name around 1935, when Lanvin was the "uncontested leader in the haute-couture field"--according to the French Palais Galliera that has collected and exhibited similar garments at its fashion museum in Paris. In New York, TheMet collected a House of Lanvin black evening coat with a similar shape that also features dramatic linear appliques, but in a white starburst that it dates to Spring/Summer 1927. The unprecedented modern look of this Art-Deco women's jacket, which was inspired by 18th-Century French and Spanish topcoats for aristocratic court dresses, may have been good cause for Maison Lanvin to custom-make some close reproductions of a one-of-a-kind couture original for additional clients in Paris, which is implied by the remaining French brand-label noting "Adaptation Jean Lanvin...