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1930s Black Wide Brim Hat w/ Scalloped Brim & Cutouts. Held to head w/ elastic band and inner comb.

Shagreen (sharkskin) eyeglass holder with carnelian glass beads and silk tassel. Holder sides open for entry and closes when handle is used. Holder onl...

Art Deco silk brocade clutch set with genuine cabochons of coral in wonderfully vibrant natural tones. Leaf and shot work surround the gilt bronze frame. Each stone measures approx 1...

1930S Purple Rayon Blend Crepe Back Satin Bias Cut Gown From Paris With Dramatic Lace

1920s cotton muslin day dress in pale grey with pale yellow attached tie with transitional Art Nouveau/Deco Japonesque floral embroideries and beadwork. The skirt is heavily embroid...

1930s Black Felt Hat with Side Bow. Interesting scalloped back conforms to back of head.

Hard-to-find 1930s cocktail dress in excellent condition with a scoop-neck, sleeveless bodice of black silk charmeuse and a tiered skirt of black lace. The bodice is studded with rhi...

30s Red Chiffon Day Dress w/ Seed Bead Embellishment. Comes with detachable sash. Metal snap side closure. Wear on fabric consistent with age.

30s sienna brown peep toe heels. Geometric cutouts on toe tops. Leather soles. Measurements: Insole: 9.5 inches Palm: 2 7/8 inches Heel: 3 inches

1930's Black Silk Velvet and Raffia Hat. Black silk velvet hat with raffia brim, glass bead and feather embellishments. Elastic band to secure hat to...

30s Red and Black Silk Kimono

1930S Russet Brown Bias Cut Rayon & Lurex Crepe Gown With Schiaparelli Style Brass Leaves Belt

Vintage Victorian Revival c.1930's bronze floral metal mesh belt. Bronze-tone metal mesh belt has a floral design imprinted on mesh. Buckle is made of three large faceted prong set a...

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

A finely beaded, sequined and embroidered evening coat, attributed to Margaine Lacroix, mid 1920's Paris, in extraordinary condition. The muted sil...

This gown is composed of 2 pieces, a sheer outer layer made of a floral patterned fabric with ruffle trim, as well as a yellow satin slip. Features a pullover style. In excellent vi...

The Italian doll company Lenci occassionally made small fashion accessories such as this beret from the 1930's. This elaborate patterning is highly evocat...

This exquisite late 1930s couture gown is unmarked as to maker, however, it is undoubtedly of the highest quality: The black silk lace is trimmed with ve...

1930s strapless silver lame embroidered strapless cocktail dress. Size 4

1940's cotton velvet with metal zip on left side. Original bolero jacket.

1930's Art Deco black suede belt with hundreds of collet set paste stones in multicolor palette with gilded leaves throughout. Wider in the front with snap closures in the back. Love...

Rare large size for the era. There are some holes in the silk and lace. 1930S Black Silk With Lace Bias Cut Dress

1930S Blush Pink Silk Charmeuse Bias Cut Hand Embroidered Tap Short Knickers

1930's charming straw bonnet with raffia embroidered floral motif made in France for the prominent 5th Avenue New York department store, Franklin Simon an...

Art Deco Swimsuit with flying sun hats, sombreros or saucers?! in very Art Deco yellow-chartreuse on a brown knit ground. Charming Art Deco motifs wi...

There are lots of lovely 1930's garments still around, but every once in a while I come across one that sets my heart a flutter! This is an extraordinarily beautiful ballerina slipper pink fine...

1930S Blush Pink Rayon & Silk Chiffon Lace Sheer Cowl Neck Dress With Cross Back

In as-is condition. was washed and has color bleeding and rust on the buttons. Silk & zipper are in otherwise pretty good condition. 1930S Cream & Brown Silk Chiffon Abstracted Polk...

1930S Hand Painted Silk Blue Metallic Crane Floral Cherry Blossom Kimono

1930S Black & Nude Silk Chiffon Lace Gown With Attached Cape

1930S Black Rayon & Silk Velvet Top With Copper Beading

1930S Organic Cotton Chambray Sailor Day Dress

Art Deco Bakelite Shelf, perfect for your display of bakelite barware and objects! Glass shelves with caramel Bakelite clad metal rod supports. 193...

An exquisite vivid emerald green handmade shawl with long fringe trim. Feels like silk. Handmade Triangle shape. Measurements. Width: 60" inches excluding fringe. Fring...

"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...