Good fashion spans more than 20 years, patou couture by christian lacroix in 1987 released this haute couture collection, placed in today with versace 2018 autumn winter handbag is still fashionable, is currently the most sought-after treasure in the antique shirt market.
How sought-after are these old shirts? Take, for example, Yves saint laurent's Spring/Summer 1988 Haute Couture collection, which produced no more than 6 pieces per model that year. For example, this Van Gogh embroidered jacket only produced 2 pieces in total, and the embroidery process of one of them took more than 600 hours to complete by hand. One of them is now in the Musee yves saint laurent in Paris, and the other was settled at auction four years ago: it sold for 175,500 euros.
Do you believe that if you invest in these luxuries long enough, they can still outperform the return on stocks?
A 20-year Lizard Skin Kelly bag from Hermès in 1989 cost $2,595 and in 2015 it changed hands for more than $45,000; in the fall/winter of 2017, a chanel rocket handbag sold for more than £21,000 at Christie's auction last year, well above the estimated sale price of £8,000. The death of Lafayette multiplied all his designs during his lifetime.
Investing in handbags today is much like people investing in jewelry and watches 30 years ago: auction houses and collectors are gradually building up their collections and customers, targeting rare limited editions rather than bargains on the market. In 2018 Christie's auctioned the most expensive handbag ever: the crocodile-skin platinum envelope hilarya, set in 18k platinum. It sold for £267,500, shocking the world.
Most of the buyers of antique fashion are international collectors and museums. The Met Museum in New York bought two of John Galliano's graduation works from a private antique shop in London, one of which was £35,000 in 2016 and rose to £65,000 by the time another coat from the same collection was taken away in 2019.
Having a keen eye is the most basic requirement of the industry, once a 100 euro diagonal skirt from the Paris flea market was found to be madeleine vionnet, which could soar to £50,000 at auction houses.
The saddle bag in Kim Kardashian's hand was also an antique one she bought, and the price increased by 160%.
Phoebe Fellow's last accessory collection at celine, this letter necklace quadrupled in price in a year. Originally the original price was 135 pounds, but the original price was not expensive to buy.
Alexander McQueen's lobster shoes, which appeared in Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" that year. They sold at Christie's in June 2019 for a pair that soared to £60,000.
Another hard currency on the antique fashion trade market is John Galliano. In addition to the graduation design series mentioned earlier, its early 80s works were available on the market in 2000 for £800 a piece, and now you have to budget at least £15,000 to £20,000 for the exact same piece, and it is still in short supply. In 2018, Kate Morse wore the John Galliano suit, which is expected to sell for £1,800, and finally the price of £15,000 was finalized.
This is probably another top collection by yves saint laurent: this haute couture, created by the Dutch painter Mondrian, sold at Sotheby's in 1998 for £2,000. Just three years later, its price in the collector's market rocketed to £27,000.
There are also two types of people who have a demand for such antique shirts. One is that brands buy back past products and enrich their own databases; the other is today's designers, buying back the works of their predecessors and going home to study. Both Eldam Molariogru and Kim Jones have this need.
Reading this, you are eager to move: how good is it to be able to buy and sell to make a profit? Then you need to consider the brand, the fabric, the color and the rarity.
There is no doubt that chritsian dior by john galliano, john galliano, alexander mcqueen, chanel, lanvin, iris van herpen, comme des garcons, schiaparelli, balenciaga are all designer brands worth paying attention to.
In 1934, Jenny Lanvin created a light green wedding dress for the daughter of an old customer who resembled a Greek goddess. Think about it, at this time, Mrs. Lang Fan is 67 years old, but her technique is still skilled, and the design concept is still very modern. With the blessing of such a story, this unique wedding dress is extremely valuable - seriously, the rich Fosun Group should consider buying it.
The other is Elsa Chaparelli, once Madame Chanel's biggest rival, and this 1935 coat of the same colour as the British Guards was made in Paris by her and artist Jean Cocteau. After several turns, it is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The works of Japanese masters Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto, who traveled to Europe in the 1980s, have shaken the Western aesthetic in the past and still have great potential for appreciation in the next 10 years. In particular, Rei Kawakubo's release in 1997 reflected on the confusion of human beings about their own body shape with visual language. Although not haute couture, this collection is considered a treasure by the museum to collect.
In the history of human fashion, it is undoubtedly a shocking stroke. So that after more than 20 years, it is still avant-garde to the point of being like a work of art 20 years later.
The other is Alexander McQueen. The £60,000 pair of lobster shoes in front of him is from his last fashion collection, inspired by dutch ghost painter Jeronimis Bosch and his magical masterpiece Paradise on Earth, unleashing his understanding of Gothic – futuristic tension, each piece tied to a sharp silhouette, embroidered and jacquard to make the silhouette more vivid.
At first glance, these are all prints, but they are all jacquards. Jacquard is divided into plain jacquard and twill jacquard, which is a concave and convex pattern composed of warp and weft interlacing of textiles. Compared with plain embroidery, jacquard face yarn and craftsmanship are more demanding.
In fact, I've been paying attention to the trading information of this series – there are no ready-to-wear sales except lobster shoes. If you want to come to McQueen's embrace, you will definitely not give up his legacy; if you make an investment collection, the collector is waiting for a shocking starting price.
Rumor has it that the antique handbag industry only trades 27 brands, hermes, chanel and louis vuitton are definitely included, in fact, more than 27.
There are two things to keep in mind when it comes to fashion. a) Only shows shown on the flyover have room for appreciation; b) The smaller the size, the better, as the museum's rows of dolls are slender.
You're just as excited as I am here: there's bling bling and cha-ching cha-ching, and even if you don't have it, you can watch it.
Often things don't come to fruition.
After the divorce of the Irish celebrity Daphne Gilles (yes, the Irish black beer guinness family) and the ship king's son, in 2008 she commissioned a private auction house in London to handle several large boxes of chanel, dolce & gabbana, versace, valentino and yves saint laurent that she had brought back from the United States to Europe. The auctioneer suggested that she open the auction, which would eventually have a much higher transaction price; and that the haute couture in it would be taken out and slowly sold to the museum, which would also maximize the return.
She didn't want to hear it at all. These shirts are part of bad memories, and they don't want to go public, they just want to get rid of them as soon as possible and donate all the proceeds to charity. She divorced, took three children, and after 12 years returned to her unfamiliar homeland and started all over again. At the age of 19, he followed his love to the United States, giving up his studies and friends. Today, my former classmates have graduated and married and moved to the outskirts of London. With a lucrative alimony, she wanted to start a new life, but she couldn't find a job. People scoffed, "She? She doesn't need to work at all."
She was lost until she was awakened by an auction advertisement from Christie's.
This is Oscar Wilde's poem "Feeling Keats Love Letters Being Auctioned", which was printed on an upcoming auction advertisement. These are love letters written by Endemion, dedicated to the crush he once secretly loved and separated. Today, the noisy people in the auction house bid for every dappled letterhead that has been soaked with tears", Wilde wrote about the cold of the world.
This time, the lot turned out to be all the clothes left behind after the death of her close friend Isabella Bro.
Born into the fashion industry, Isabella Bro single-handedly mined hat designers Philip Tracy, fashion designers Alexander McQueen and Hussein Karajan, and cultivated John Galliano, Manolo Brahnik and Jeremy Scott. Three years after her death, Isabella's sister sent more than 200 of her belongings to Christie's auction house in hopes of paying off her debts.
Daphne saw the news in the newspaper and immediately called several of Isabella's former friends to discuss how to deal with the matter. She rushed to Christie's in London and saw several boxes of Isabella's clothes tucked into. In addition to his heartache, he negotiated with Christie's and bought all the lots himself. In addition to the extremely valuable Alexander McQueen, which is present almost every season, there are plenty of early Jeremy Scott, Julien Macdonald, Viktor & Rolf, Fendi, Escada, Prada, and Marni.
Later, under the auspices of Daphne and the Isabella Blow Foundation Foundation, which she founded, the vintage shirts were exhibited in New York, London, Vancouver, Sydney and Prague. They have the most comprehensive collection of alexander mcqueen in the world, and in particular have made important contributions to the "Savage Beauty" exhibition in honor of McQueen.
Between 2008 and 2012, the global economy was not good, and all major corporations were the first to stop sponsoring artists and art exhibitions. It was Daphne who put these clothes on display in Isabella's name, so that people will always remember Isabella's creativity. She is full of energy and finds herself behind the doll in the beautiful shirt.
Shirts have no feelings, but people have. Every shirt you've ever bought is an important part of your memory, and you remember the one you wore on your first date, the one you hid in the innermost one on your first bed; the waiter accidentally dropped butter on the corner of your skirt, but it was your favorite one, and you still couldn't help but hate him.
So, buy what you love. Even if it is worthless in the future, it is still a good idea to stay in the closet. Of course, if you include potential stocks... Well, congratulations, your vision is extraordinary.
Don't be afraid of emotional earthquakes, change sets of new military uniforms Flying to Paris for training Unhappy As long as I'm allowed to hang out for a while He can't kiss passionately, so don't hate when he buys the wrong shirt There's always a pair of shoes lining, and there's always someone in the store who is considerate of me ——Faye Wong, "The Empress's New Clothes"
*The transaction amount data in this article comes from publicly available information from the Financial Times, Sotheby's, Christie's and Kerry Taylor.
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