1960s Black Crepe Cocktail Dress With Beaded Embellishment

This is an absolutely stunning full-length layered black lace gown from the 1930’s. It features an integral black satin slip with thin black velvet st...

Great little black dress from American designer Ceil Chapman. Featuring pretty cross over and ruching detail to the front and a sexy low neckline to the back this is the perfect par...

A stunning full-length flapper dress of haute couture quality. This dramatic black chiffon gown is fully lined in black satin and features sequined panels attached around the skirt ...

This incredible original 1920s black satin flapper dress has a black satin slip integral to the dress with a beautiful scrolling floral embroidered tulle lace...

This stylish and elegant knee length dress was designed by British couture designer Victor Edelstein. Edelstein founded his own haute couture fashion ...

I love the simplicity of form of this early 1980s Charles Jourdan black cocktail dress. It has a wide boatneck and fantastic cold shoulder sleeve so that the top of the arm is exposed. The sleeve itself is batwing and very tapered, finishing in a neat, buttoned cuff. The pattern on the fabric reminds me of the lines created by waves hitting a sandy beach. Its such an interesting jacquard silk feel material with the way that the weft and warp has been woven creating both matte and satin finishes to bring out a two-dimensional look. The dress it has a thigh high split...

VERSACE Actual Runway Samole Fall/Winter 2012 Look # 6 Macrame Gothic Cross Cocktail Dress This long sleeve, turtle neck cocktail dress features an allover macrame Gothic cross...

Absence of vulgarity was central to Chanel’s definition of luxury, a view formed during her impoverished early life. Born in 1883 in Saumur, France, as Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, she was just 12 years old when her mother died and her itinerant father put her in a home for orphaned girls run by a local convent. She learned to sew and, upon moving to Moulins six years later, became a seamstress. She also sang in nightclubs, earning the sobriquet “Coco,” an allusion to a popular song of the time. Beautiful, one of a kind vintage silk dress and jacket for everyday ware as a coktail dress...

Thierry Mugler Strapless Black Satin Gown, c.1980s Thierry Mugler Strapless Black Satin Gown featuring asymmetrical, gathered corseted bodice with rhi...

This Michael Kors gown is composed of a radiant soft stretch purple jersey. The classic long sleeve style is modernized with an exquisite open back. There is a top button closure at ...

Cocktail dress featuring an all-over black sequin bodice and a gunmetal satin skirt, the bodice with jewel neckline and long sleeves, the satin skirt with box pleats sewn down with a...

This is a long sleeve black silk crepe gown by Galanos, from the 1990's and labeled from I. Magnin. The gown has long, puffy sleeves, shoulder pads, and zips up the back. There is ...