JEAN PATOU Adaptation c.1930's Black Silk Jacket Ruffled Capelet

Moncler Gamme Rouge Limited Edition down-filled coat from Giambattista Valli's first collection with the company in Fall-Winter 2008. Coat is const...

BILL BLASS c.1980's Black Crepe Dramatic Puffed Sleeve Peplum Skirt Party Dress Circa: 1980’s Label(s): Bill Blass Collection III Designer: Bill Blass Style: Peplum dress Color(s):...

THIERRY MUGLER c.1990's Black Fringe High Collar Structured Zip Up Jacket VTG Brand / Manufacturer: Mugler Circa: 1990's Designer: Thierry Mugler Style: Zip Up Jacket Color(s): Blac...

ALEXANDER McQUEEN S/S 1999 “No. 13” Black Concealed ButtonExtended Shoulder Blazer / Jacket Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: S/S 1999 “No. 13” Designer: Alexander...

Gorgeous 1970s vintage black silk satin evening jacket by Michael Novarese. Exceptional construction with front covered snap and hook closure. Fully lined in silk satin. Excellent vi...

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...

Black silk satin evening coat with ruffles on the bottom edge. SIZE M

This Andre Laug cape is composed of a black silk and features a ruffle trim. There are center front snap closures and a button at the shoulder. In excellent vintage condition. **P...