Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Textured Large Ruby Red Oval Cabochon Clip Earrings

Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Agate Burgundy Red Clear Dome Round Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. Not any colour loss or scratches. Vintage and rare to find. 100% ...

Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Red Round Circle Cabochon Double Swirl Twist Rope Openwork Chunky Statement Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition. 100% Genuine. Signed at the b...

Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Classic Bright White Pearl Oval Clip Earrings Gold Tone Very good condition. 100% Genuine. A very beautiful pair of earrings by Chr. DIOR, signed at th...

Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Oval Large White Pearl Retro Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Plated Very good condition. Light scratches or colour loss, one earring side is looks like melt...

Dior - (Made in France) Long earrings clips in gold metal and red cabochon. Additional information: Dimensions: 8.5 L cm Condition: Very good condition Seller Ref number: BO139

An eternally stylish pair of Vintage Dior Twist Earrings. The perfect jewel box hero. Team gold and cream with pale hues for the chicest of accessories or contrast with deeper shades...

Maison Gripoix Vintage Faux Pearl and Red Dangling Earrings. Wrapped in woven gold around the Pearl in the typical 1980s style of Chanel. Clip on. So classic, and you always look good no matter what you are wearing when you have these on. Clip on. Very much the colors of Chanel. Guy de Maupassant wrote a famous story about a necklace. The story is about a young, pretty, intelligent, well-educated but poorly endowed bride who has to marry a petty official; thus, suffering from the limitations of living a life with a husband that lacked any exquisite qualities. One day, to entertain his dejected spouse, her husband receives an invitation to a ball and gives his wife the 400 francs he had saved for a hunting rifle so that she can order an appropriate dress. However, when the dress is ready, it becomes clear that it is lacking jewelry, and it would be impossible to attend the ball while looking so poor. The protagonist approaches her wealthy childhood friend, with whom she was raised at the monastery, and borrows a diamond necklace from her. The ball is a great success, and she is the centre of attention. However, when the woman returns home, she discovers that she has lost the necklace. To conceal her faux pas from her friend, she buys a new necklace identical to the one she lost. To pay it off, the woman gets into a huge debt, which, over the years, gradually drags her down the social ladder from the bourgeoisie to poverty. Ten years later, having lost her good looks, the woman encounters her friend on the Champs Elysees, who still looks young, beautiful, and rich. The protagonist reveals to her friend the entire story about the necklace, but her friend replies in amazement that the diamonds were fake and would “cost 500 francs at most.” Maison Gripoix starts out with a dramatic story. In 1869 (or a year earlier, according to other sources), Paris master glassmaker Augustina Gripoix began creating replicas of pearls and crystals, casting glass into various shapes and colors and inserting them into the most sophisticated settings. She used the pâte de verre (glass paste) technique, whereby a traditional ceramic or gypsum form was filled with a multi-colour piece of glass and special gluing substances and then baked in a furnace, resulting in objects featuring fantastical hues. Only Augustina made her crystals by pouring the melted glass paste into the press moulds, skipping the furnace step, allowing her to achieve the purity of colour, transparency, and shine. She found a simple method to create beautiful jewelry, and thus, Marquises, Duchesses, and Princesses queued up. Madame Gripoix would then create replicas of their jewelry in case of robbery or loss or unusual pieces for their new wraps, neckpieces, or boas. The so-called ‘costume jewelry’ emerged to a large extent thanks to the work of Maison Gripoix. Augustina Gripoix earned her fame in the 1890s when she began creating necklaces for Sarah Bernhardt to wear on stage and later designed costume jewelry for the first high fashion house of Charles Frederick Worth. Later, Paul Poiret, the leading couturier of 1910, contacted her, and she created sophisticated Oriental-style jewelry for him to match his famous Oriental costumes, based on the aesthetic of Diaghilev’s initial Russian seasons. The value of costume jewelry was now being recognized in its own right and not just for imitation purposes. The taste of emancipated young girls, who were gaining more and more freedom and opportunities, was best met with bijouterie. So in the 1920s, when Augustina’s daughter Susan became the head of the House, Gripoix prospects became even more exciting. Girls with short-cropped hair in short dresses zoomed by in open-top cars wearing bijou rather than diamonds. Everyone ordered bijouterie from Madam Gripoix during this period, from Jeanne Lanvin to Jean Piguet...

CHRISTIAN DIOR vintage gold tone clip-on earrings embellished with a faceted and marbled ruby red colour glass cabochon. Embossed CHR. DIOR ©. Indicative measurements : approx. 1.9...