Tri-State Area - Jackets

1980S YVES SAINT LAURENT Black & White Haute Couture Wool Tattersall Blazer

1930S Rayon Crepe Gold Sequined Short Sleeve Zipper Front Dinner Jacket

Black, green, and white alpaca-blend tweed jacket by Chanel. Crew neck. Hook-and-eye front closure. 40" bust, 15" shoulder width, 19.25" sleeve length, 24" length.

Vintage beige linen blazer by Chanel. From the Spring/Summer 2001 Collection. Notched lapel. Dual hip pockets. Single button closure at front. 40" bust, 19" shoulder width, 20.5" sle...

Grey rabbit fur, fox fur, and shearling zip jacket by Natacha & Vanessa. Silver-tone hardware. Oversized collar. Dual zip closure hip pockets. Front zip and buckle closures. 36" bust...

1990S Gianfranco Ferre Green Pink Silk & Lurex Jacket

The Den of Beverly Hills black silk lined 3/4 sleeve hand sequined 'open' evening jacket measures 20" in total length. The shoulder measures 16&quo...

1990S Y’S YOHJI YAMAMOTO Black & White Linen Poly 3/4 Sleeve Pin Striped Jacket

Black boucle wool blazer by Isabel Marant. Notched lapel. Three pockets. Single button closure at front. 42" bust, 21" shoulder width, 21" sleeve length, 28" length.

This Alma Couture Spring taupe wool is patterned fine check. The asymmetric hemline is combined with textured pleated and crinkle handwork along with top-stitching. There's a hidden ...

Vintage white silk and charcoal faux fur jacket by Omo Norma Kamali. Dual hip pockets. Sash tie at waist. Zip closure at center front. 34" bust, 15.5" shoulder width, 26.5" sleeve le...

VINTAGE GRACE NY 100% leather Jean Muir suede jacket circa 1980s. Excellent Vintage Condition. Shoulder 20 in Bust up to 62 in Waist 36 in Hips 34 in...

We purchased this from a NY woman who always has the finest designer pieces. There is no label however the construction is exceptional and the beading is beautiful. There is a gold c...

1950S Hand Woven Silk Ikat Hooded Cape With Embroidery & Tassels

1930S Blue Hand Woven Rayon Blend With Real Silver Threads Kaftan Vest

Schiaparelli Haute Couture Changeant Faille Jacket, 1938-39. "France gave me the inspiration: America gave me the approval" Elsa Schiapa...

"In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous" Elsa Schiaparelli,1930's. "Life has changed so much, A Schiaparelli was never made for the streets." Karl Lagerfeld, 1970's. 2 quotes,2 designers, 4 decades apart. 4 decades later. Although these quotes are highly debatable, especially in the context of today's high-low designer collabs and pop up retailing, iconic fashion endures. Whether now relegated to a museum exhibition, a collector's acid free box or a celebrity one nighter, these fashion artifacts from the french Haute Couture of the 1930's echo a time, pace and culture unrecognizable to most people today. Schiaparelli changed the definition of what it meant to be a designer at an important time in the evolution of the Haute Couture. Rather than simply making beautifully elegant garments (which she also did), she focused on the concepts behind the pieces. For her fashion was a fluid medium and she effortlessly blended fashion, politics and the fine arts. She was one of the most innovative and rebellious designers of the period working against what she considered the stale fashion currents of the day. She was elegant yet untrained. As a protege of Poiret, she gained entry into the world of Parisian fashion. While her rival Chanel was essentially uneducated and a “primitive” in the artistic circles in which she socialized, Schiaparelli’s impeccable social credentials as the daughter of an old and distinguished Roman family gave her a relatively easy entree into Paris society. She was a subversive, a punk, a desecrator, a collaborator, an innovator as well as the ultimate insider whose plans on design domination and creating "la zone rose" for the modern world were cut short by the advent of WWII. She was at the height of her influence and power showing 4 iconic collections in the last years of the decade. Fascinating to consider what the House of Schiaparelli could have brought forth in the following decades had the world not been swept away in turmoil at that moment. In the context of her short prewar career, few remaining masterworks have survived. The rare "moment" she created in the 30's lives on within each art piece, safelocked away within each stitch and sequin. Each design retains her spirit and legacy as a free thinking, modernist rebel who used the avantegarde as her platform in the most creative period of fashion design in the 20th Century. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rare and Important Elsa Schiaparelli Haute Couture...

This wonderful square cut berry silk crepe Fortuny coat is gilt stencilled in a Bellini pattern. Fortuny's ethereal crepe and gauze garments are extremely...