1930S LANVIN Style Black Rayon Net & Silk Ribbon Sheer Top

We found this piece in Paris and it has some very interesting and unique cut out work which has been stitched inside by hand to create a grid-work of puffy little squares. Statement ...

1940S JACQUE FATH Black Haute Couture Rayon & Silk Net Top

1920S Black Silk Satin Cowl Neck Blouse With Beaded Tassel Shoulders

1940S Black Rayon Short Sleeve Top With Lace & Passementrie Collar

vintage COMME DES GARCONS 1990 black pleated fan ruffle sheer top S Reference: CRTI/A00421 Brand: Comme Des Garcons Designer: Rei Kawakubo Collection: 1990 Material: Nylon Color: Bla...

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...

This sheer black blouse features a tone on tone geometric and partially metallic devoré effect, a round neck, long sleeves with cuffs and a loose fi...

1940s Black Rayon Crepe Evening Blouse w Black Illusion Lace Inset Bows: Raglan sleeves, notched collar and sexy back covered button closures. Make a friend to help! Classic 1940s ...