Vintage Maximilian New York Russian Sable Fur Cape

From the Fall/Winter 2004 collection, this truly fabulous black velvet Versace coat was designed by Donatella Versace. Debuting on the season's runway a...

This incredible tiger print pony hair Gianni Versace coat was designed by Donatella Versace. From the Fall/Winter 1999 collection, the short version of this coat debuted on the seaso...

-Designed by Jean Paul Gaultier - Sold by Skof.Archive - Black Alpaca Coat - Double Breasted - Button Closure - Belt at the waist - Comfort fit - Made in Italy - Excellent Codition -...

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...