specialty fashion & textile sales

Mark your calendars for our annual Holiday auction! This December, we offer you a dazzling array of rare antique, couture & collectible fashions and textiles. 

Highlights to include:

• Scarce Natalia Goncharova for Myrbor lame’ applique evening dress, c. 1925
• Madeleine Vionnet silk velvet evening cape with original sales receipt, Spring 1927
• Mariano Fortuny Delphos gown & matching stencilled velvet jacket, c. 1930
• Jeanne Lanvin Summer 1922 embroidered evening wrap
• Paco Rabanne chainmail dress, c. 1970
• Beth Levine “Kabuki” shoes, 1960s

Museum-quality evening fashions of the Art Deco era will be a particular strength, alongside 20th and 21st century designer and archival works by Lanvin, Babani, the Wiener Werkstatte, Martin Margiela, Emilio Pucci, Galanos, Thea Porter, Yves Saint Laurent, Lucien Lelong, Norman Norell, Michael Vollbracht, and many more. An especially fine selection of antique 18th and 19th century garments for ladies, gents & children will be on offer. Additionally, you’ll find a rich cache of antique textiles & trims, as well as many fresh-to-market museum deaccessioned pieces, including Halston garments from the Museum at FIT, Asian garments and textiles from the Brooklyn Museum, and antique hats & accessories from the Valentine Museum. 

Check back periodically as we update the preliminary catalog, and stay tuned for bidding to open!