Tri-State Area - Jackets

Vera's wonderfully elegant combination of bronze and metallic gold open evening jacket is detailed with two front patch pockets and finished with black silk cording edges. The...

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...

Eskandar deconstructed fully lined wool and cashmere blend patch pocket jacket measures 27 inches in total length. The shoulder measures 34 inches, neck-to-shoulder is 13 1/4 inches,...

This wonderfully bold-print in Turquoise jacket is fully lined and accented with three gilded gold metal buttons. Short-sleeve in 100% cotton print, the front has two set-in pockets ...

1970S Blue & Purple Silk Tricot Jersey Dye Jacket With Pockets

1990S ISSEY MIYAKE Dark Purple & Fuscia Polyester Pleated Mens Splatter Print Jacket

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...

Victorian White Cotton Handmade Lace Vest

Victorian Silver Hand Done Lace Sleeveless Jacket

Buttons and Buckle are removable for laundering and starching. Victorian White Cotton Mens 4-Pocket Buckle Back Vest With Beautiful Buttons & An Interesting Weave

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...