1920S Black Cream Nylon Jersey Art Deco Negligee With Jacket

Exceptionally rare and early jersey dress from the 1920s. This dress is in great wearable condition however there are several small repairs to the jersey. This is a rare opportunity ...

1920S Black & Beige Silk Chiffon Sheer Dress With Lace Appliqués XL

Good condition with a couple of small seam rips. 1930S Cream Silk Feather Weight Robe & Negligee Ensemble

1930S Black Sheer Rayon & Silk Knit Dress

Incredible vintage 1970s black and white color blocked Grecian maxi dress, with black chiffon angel sleeves! Wonderful pleating in all the right p...

1920s Black and White Beaded Rhinestone Silk Chiffon Dress. Drop waist silhouette with two tier skirt. White beading with additional rhinestones ...

1920s Black Silk Chiffon Party Dress. Black silk chiffon party dress with scoop neckline, green piping around neck/arm holes, machine embroidery, ruched shoulder detail, and handkerc...

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...