Vintage Fashion & Textiles
Marilyn Monroe’s record-breaking ‘Happy Birthday Mr President’ dress, which sold for $1.2m in 1999; Olivier Coutau-Begarie’s two-day sale of 5000 pieces of antique silks tapestries and embroideries from the House of Hamot; the lively vintage fashion fairs held around the country every month – each has its own place in the world of fashion and textile collecting.
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Chair prices propelled higher thanks to Picasso
04 March 2024A Parisian sale titled Pablo Picasso and his Friends staged at Piasa in France on February 15 included a series of artworks to which the great man had contributed in some way.
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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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Bayeux Museum buys Victorian replica of the famous tapestry from the collection of Rolling Stones drummer
31 January 2024The Bayeux Museum in France has bought a life-size Victorian replica of the Bayeux tapestry from the Charlie Watts sale.
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Lampshade highlights the work of Quentin Bell, the last of Bloomsbury
22 January 2024A lampshade painted by Quentin Bell sold for a remarkable £4700 when Adam Partridge (20% buyer’s premium) dispersed the residual collection of Michael Evans in Macclesfield.
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Five questions with Joseph Sullivan of Textile Antiques
22 January 2024Joseph Sullivan of Textile Antiques is one of the exhibitors at the London Antiques Run & Textile Art Fair running this week (January 23-28) at Evolution London, Battersea.
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Abigail and Maria’s sampler skills still celebrated today
22 January 2024There is a huge disconnect today between the best and rest in the sampler world.
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Roman tapestry work of Romano
15 January 2024Markus Voigt returns to the London Antique Rug & Textile Art (LARTA) Fair after some years away with a silk and wool tapestry fragment that stars as the main image for this year’s fair logo.
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Textiles take centre stage at fairs, exhibitions and auction
15 January 2024Focus on quilt on offer at the first Decorative event of the year - which shares its venue with specialist fair LARTA
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Quentin Bell lampshade takes nearly 40-times estimate
10 January 2024A lampshade painted by Quentin Bell sold for a remarkable £4700 when Adam Partridge dispersed the residual collection of Michael Evans (Dayabandu).
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Rare central Asian textile takes £26,000 at Gorringe's
09 January 2024A 19th century silk weaving sold for 144 times the top-estimate in Lewes on January 8.
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Taylor made: fashion specialist Kerry to sell remarkable collection of actress Elizabeth
04 December 2023Fashion specialist Kerry Taylor was astonished to receive an email containing images of actress Elizabeth Taylor’s Oscar dress from 1961.
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Specialist promotes folk art of the future
27 November 2023Antiques-dealer-turned-artist Tom Hickman is the focus of this winter’s exhibition at Robert Young.
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Dealer says stumpwork panel ‘of outstanding cultural significance’
20 November 2023A dealer who bought a piece of 17th century stumpwork at the Robert Kime sale believes it may hold more significance for the history of race and gender than initially understood.
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The Russell Fling textiles collection goes under the hammer in Philadelphia
20 November 2023Material Culture, Philadelphia specialists in ethnographic art, is selling the Russell S Fling collection of rugs and textiles on December 4.
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Greek textiles wow on Pall Mall
20 November 2023A near pair of Rhodian bed curtains were among the highlight sales at Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch’s recent exhibition 'Four Rivers from Eden: Works of Art and Paintings from the Islamic & Indian World'.
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Robert De Niro’s ‘Godfather’ suit stars in our pick of five auction highlights
17 November 2023ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a suit worn by Robert De Niro in a famous scene from ‘The Godfather Part II’ that more than doubled estimate at an auction in Hertfordshire.
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Twenty-five pairs of shoes to carry? This might just help
13 November 2023Vintage Louis Vuitton luggage doesn’t get much better than the 1920s Malle Chaussures: a ‘made to order’ trunk with compartments for multiple pairs of shoes and ancillary drawers for shoehorns and a cleaning kit.
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