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Vintage Chanel Dress
 
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FEATURING: Vintage Chanel Dress
(August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971)
Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel, one of the greatest fashion designers of the 20th century. |
“Couture is not theatre, and fashion is not an art; it’s a craft.”
Coco Chanel
The world of modern fashion design is inevitably influenced in their collections by the designs of the past. Many major fashion houses have stylists and vintage buyers who search for the vintage items which would direct the new trend in their collections.
Over the last years the collection of vintage couture and designer-made clothing has become an important trend in the antique industry. The Coco Chanel vintage clothes are among the top performers at the vintage auctions. Chanel, who considered designing clothes as a craft work, is known to have paid a lot of attention to luxurious finishing details. The refinement of Chanel designs makes the vintage dresses of the House of Chanel truly unique and desirable as far as their quality is concerned. Their value is correspondingly high.
Collecting of the vintage Chanel dresses has a lot of people involved: museums from all over the world, designers houses, film stars and fashionable ladies of every age.
Vintage Chanel Dress. The reasons to collect:
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Profitability. With a certain experience this is a business where serious money can be earned;
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Quality. The quality of garments and workmanship of the vintage dress is almost certainly much higher in the vintage dress, compared with the high-quality modern design. It is simply too costly to reproduce this standard of quality under the modern cost saving conditions. According to Dr. Valerie Steel, curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, “in many cases the quality of the workmanship greatly surpasses all but the most expensive contemporary couture.”
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Age as an asset. The older vintage dress gets, the more valuable it becomes.
Possible difficulties to expect when collecting Vintage Chanel:
- Recognizing the true age of the vintage dress. Modern designers looking for the inspiration in the earlier time periods, do not make it easy. Often a person assuming the specific time period, can discover, that the dress comes from a more recent time.
- Identifying quality when dealing with online vintage sources such as eBay.
- Sizing can be a problem for people who are not familiar with vintage fashion.It makes sense, therefore, to ask for the precise measurements when buying vintage Chanel dress online.
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