Description

This outstanding vintage 1980's Claude Montana Pour Ideal Cuir jacket is a perfect example of Montana's technical proficiency with animal skins! This Black Dyed Anaconda snakeskin jacket is superbly crafted and asymmetrically cut in the front. the jacket has both lambskin leather Eunectes murinus which is Anaconda. Pieces like this don't come along very often and since we adore vintage Claude Montana, we are so happy to have it in our collection!

Claude Montana, along with his one time friend, Thierry Mugler, created the "power dressing" phenomenon of the 1980's. He was a perfectionistic designer who created some of the most important fashions of the 1980's. His expertise with leather is well regarded and his pieces are highly collectible.

Measurements + Fit

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Size Label: 42
Shoulders: 22" (drop shoulders)
Chest: 40"
Waist: 30"
Length (high shoulder point to hem): 20"
Sleeve (from shoulder seam ): 22"

About the Designer

Considered a fashion God by fashion critics and his professional peers, Claude Montana didn't just design clothing, he designed an era. From creating papier mache jewelry in his younger years to his fascination with the possibilities of leather, Claude Montana was a complex, technically savvy designer.

Known for his brilliance with color, and use of unique textures and fabrics in his signature aggressive silhouettes, Montana's designs became the most recognizable definition of the 1980's. His fastidious attention to detail is well documented and he even required his models to stand in a certain way to appropriately compliment his silhouettes. He was notoriously late for his fashion shows, often making the audience wait for 45 minutes or more. But, no one was ever disappointed and it is reported that women often cried during his shows.

Thierry Mugler and Claude Montana were both highly influential in making the Amazon warrior woman silhouette a popular fashion statement in the 1980's. While Mugler's designs tended to have more of a playful tone to them , Claude Montana's pieces were designed to be taken very seriously.

Claude Montana designed the haute couture collections for the House of Lanvin from 1990-1992. Though he received two consecutive Golden Thimble awards for his work at Lanvin, the collections were not well received by the public so Montana was replaced.

Marc Jacobs, Rick Owens, Lee Alexander McQueen, Olivier Theyskens, Nicolas Ghesquière, Gareth Pugh, and Martin Margiela were all inspired by Claude Montana. Even Yves Saint Laurent considered Montana to be the future of fashion.

Some say, it was the high pedestal Montana was put on as a supernatural fashion king that lead to the demise of his career. Others say it was the death of his wife, Wallis Franken, that led to Montana's retreat from fashion and the public eye. Though Montana was openly gay, Wallis had been his muse for many years and they had been good friends so the hope was that the marriage was to be good publicity. In 1996, Franken died after falling three stories from their Paris apartment. He refuses to discuss Wallis to this day.

We grab Claude Montana pieces whenever we can and we love how they feel and how they make us feel when we wear them!

Product Details

1980s Claude Montana Snakeskin Cut Lamb Leather Jacket

Name: 1980s Claude Montana Snakeskin Cut Lamb Leather Jacket
Brand: Claude Montana
SKU: 5407
Price: 1200.0 USD
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All of our pieces have been professionally cleaned and arrive ready to wear.

Color: Black

Material: Snakeskin

Size: Medium

Measuring & Fit Guide

We offer a large selection of designers and manufacturers that span the 20th and early 21st century. Sizing varies greatly, so we have outlined our measuring and size estimating process.

The best way to know if a vintage item will fit you is to take a garment that fits you well, similar to the one you are interested in purchasing, and measure it the way we measure ours.

We lay all garments flat and measure as follows*:

DRESSES		PANTS
BUST - under arm to under arm across the front and then double that measurement.		Measure the WAISTBAND, widest part of the HIPS, widest part of the THIGH on one leg and width of the CUFF, then double those measurements
WAIST - find the smallest part of the garment if there isn't an obvious seam for the waist and measure across and then double that measurement.		LENGTH - Measure from the top of the waistband to the bottom of the cuff along the side seam.
HIPS - Find the largest part of the hip area and measure flat, then double that measurement.		RISE - Measure from the crotch to the top of the waistband.
LENGTH - from the nape of the neck or the top of the shoulders, depending on the style of garment. We will measure to the waist when applicable, so that you can determine if it will fit your torso, and then a waist down measurement.		INSEAM - Measure from the crotch to the bottom of the cuff along the inside seam.
SLEEVES - measure from the top of the shoulder seam to the end of the sleeve. When we think that the arm opening is particularly small, we will provide that measurement as well.**

*Fabrics with stretch will have some give, we will try to mention the range of measurements that will fit comfortably.

**With dolman sleeves, the size is an estimation based on the waist as the body seamlessly joins the sleeve.

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