Vintage Fashion
The trendiest sector of the antiques market? With dedicated fairs and specialist auctions, this area draws both collectors looking for pieces of fashion history as well as buyers looking simply for something to wear.
Clothes worn by celebrities often make the headline prices but even more affordable pieces of costume by now-forgotten designers have their place in the market.
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Five questions with costume and luggage dealer Leslie Verrinder
12 August 2024Leslie Verrinder started with an accessories stall in Camden but is now a happy fixture in Alfies Antique Market on Church Street, north-west London.
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Dress code of a dynasty
05 August 2024The colours and designs of Qing dynasty robes were designed to convey rank and entitlement.
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Contents from Ann Broadbent’s Georgian mansion head to Wimbledon Auctions
31 July 2024Wimbledon Auctions has secured a consignment of works from the Greenwich mansion of the late Ann Broadbent, a well-known local eccentric who rose to fame when House of Hackney made a short documentary on her and her house seven years ago.
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Westwood sale at Christie's brings 20,000 visitors and exceeds expectations
03 July 2024The wardrobe of Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022) was put up for sale at Christie’s by Andreas Kronthaler, Westwood’s husband and creative director of Vivienne Westwood.
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Princess Diana clothes given royal send-off at Beverly Hills auction
03 July 2024In what was the largest curated collection of her personal items since 1997, dresses, hats, shoes and personal letters were all up for grabs at Julien’s.
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Largest collection of Louis Vuitton trunks come to auction
02 July 2024Christie's is offering the largest and most extensive private collection of Louis Vuitton trunks ever to come to auction.
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Rare 18th century Neapolitan crèche figures take off at auction and fly back to Napoli
01 July 2024Arriving in boxes, a quantity of Italian Nativity figures were delivered to Anna Evans, head of sale and specialist at south London saleroom Roseberys, with Christie’s lot labels dated 1982 still attached.
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Vivienne Westwood's personal wardrobe up for auction
14 June 2024Christie’s is hosting a sale titled Vivienne Westwood: The Personal Collection.
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Dress worn by young Elizabeth II sells at Kerry Taylor
12 June 2024A cotton dress worn by Elizabeth II and kept by her nanny was sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions in London yesterday.
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Chinese artist’s silk robe emerges at Paris auction
05 June 2024The auction house Aponem is selling works from the collection amassed by the Franco-Chinese artist, pianist, painter and poet Cheng Zhifan (1924-2021) who came to France in 1951.
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Floral dress worn by young Elizabeth II goes to auction
28 May 2024Worn by the late Queen around 1930 and kept by her nanny ever since, the cotton dress goes to auction in June
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Show celebrates five decades of sumptuous costume jewellery
22 April 2024An Oscar de la Renta orange flower vintage necklace offered for £385 is one of the highlights of an exhibition celebrating five decades of costume jewellery held at The Design Gallery.
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Louis Vuitton miniature trunk flies over estimate in Maine
08 April 2024Correct in detail, material and quality of construction, down to brass hardware, stencilled cloth and monogrammed leather trim’, a miniature Louis Vuitton trunk sold for $7500 (£5900) at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries (20% buyer’s premium).
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Extraordinary mourning gown shows its Worth
08 April 2024A sale titled Vintage for Valentines at Augusta Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in Bellows Falls, Vermont, was topped by an extraordinary printed chiffon outfit by the Parisian fashion house Worth.
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Paris costumes and textiles sale that turned out nicely
11 March 2024Auction staged at Drouot offered a varied selection topped by Louis XVI-era suit
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Colin Firth’s 'sensational' Pride and Prejudice wet shirt goes to UK museum
07 March 2024Shirt from historic moment of the BBC’s 'Pride and Prejudice' sells at Kerry Taylor Auctions
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Well heeled in the 18th century – ladies’ shoes sell for four figures in North Yorkshire auction
04 March 2024When it comes to period costume antique footwear can often command some of the strongest prices.
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Art Deco-era vanity cases highly sought by contemporary collectors
04 March 2024Legend has it that Charles Arpels (of Van Cleef & Arpels fame) saw a lady friend stashing her lipstick and other cosmetics in an ordinary cigarette tin for a trip out on the town.
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Fashion accessory for a 1930s foxy lady
04 March 2024An Arctic fox fur owned and worn by a 1930s movie star dubbed Britain’s answer to Ginger Rogers turned heads at a Derby saleroom.
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Fashion fair for the style-savvy
05 February 2024Among the vintage red-carpet moments at the recent Golden Globes film awards ceremony in Los Angeles, two actresses stood out. Elle Fanning wore a 1960s white silk gown by Pierre Balmain while Carey Mulligan looked to the archives for her exact replica vintage Schiaparelli dress from 1949.
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