Vintage Auction: Round 3
Lot 245: Lanvin coat
You knew I would choose this Lanvin coat, right? I am smitten. I forgot to add “graphic” as one of my criteria. Here are my other selections from the Leslie Hindman Vintage Couture and Accessories catalog. I think this is it, but I may have missed something. If you see something I missed, let me know
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Lot 185: Geoffrey Beene dress
Lot 588: Deco earrings
Lot 317: Moschino plaid dress
Lot 388: Kieselstein-Cord straw bag
Lot 273: Thierry Mugler cocktail dress
Lot 210: Moschino leather skirt
Lot 533: Chanel necklace
Lot 331: Thierry Mugler purple gown
Lot 417: Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co belt
I'm Holly, the author of Hollygab. I write about vintage clothing, fashion, interior design, shopping, other pressing matters. Many Hollygab musings have to do with purging my obsessions. 
I was hoping that you would highlight the Bee Skirt. I would never be able to wear it myself but it definitely caught my attention.
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Awesome vintage Holly. Love the post.
I’m really looking forward to this auction! Thanks for your great choices.
These posts make me think about how funny and subjective the idea of “wearable” is. For example, I think the Yohji jacket is very wearable. By me. Ditto the Mugler dresses. But the cat-print paper dress or the “Bzzzz…” skirt? Not wearable by me. But I can imagine the type of person who would love those but think of my choices as “unwearable”
I like to think of a “type” who’d find something wearable that’s seemingly not at all conventional, say, the brick suit by Moschino. Then, in my head, I create how the person who wears it might look. I’d envision her hair, her shoes, her makeup, what her house looks like, what kinds of books she reads, etc. For me, there’s an element of over-the-topness in this caliber of fashion that makes it interesting to me whether or not I’m the customer for it. It’s as if the clothes themselves beg to have a narrative built for them.
I’d have to say that the black cocktail dress by Mugler is truly one of my favorite takes on the cocktail dress. I like knowing that someone who knows Mugler’s career would immediately think, “That’s his belt buckle!”
I can easily imagine you in the Yohji jacket, Maija. High-end, avant garde edginess seems like it will appeal to you even as you become less and less interested in “fashion detail.”
For me, the cat print dress needs to be on someone very youthful or someone of advanced style. In fact, I love the idea of a much older woman wearing it–like a spin on the crazy old lady with a collection of cats, but much more eccentric and put-together in her rare paper cat dress.
I hope whoever gets the brick suit is about 45, with spiky platinum hair and a Dutch accent.