1990s Betsey Johnson Luxe Black Metallic Vintage 90s Sweater Cardigan Top
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Chic 90s BETSEY JOHNSON Luxe label black metallic sweater ! The perfect weight for anytime of year. Golden metal zipper up the front with a zipper that looks like a rope. The perfect...
$556Sale Price|20% Off
1990s Betsey Johnson Crocodile Alligator Print Vintage 90s Velour Turtleneck Top
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Amazing early 90s BETSEY JONHSON croc / gator print long sleeve stretch velour turtleneck shirt ! Features the softest velour fabric, and simply slips over the head and stretches to ...
Early 1990s Betsey Johnson Red Blue Green Taffeta Plaid Vintage Cropped Jacket
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Chic early 90s BETSEY JOHNSON red, blue and green plaid cropped taffeta bolero jacket! Features a classic plaid that is perfect any time of year. Flattering pleating detail on back f...
Vintage Betsey Johnson 1920s Inspired 1990s Yellow and Maroon Striped 90s Romper
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Chic 1990s does 1920 BETSEY JOHNSON yellow and burgundy striped romper, onesie, jumpsuit, or playsuit! Fantastic soft rayon jersey stretches to fit. Buttons up the bodice for control...
Vintage Betsey Johnson 1990s Black Sequin Mini Dress with PVC Panels and Straps
By Betsey Johnson
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fashion History: By the 1990s, Betsey Johnson had established herself as one of American fashion's most influential designers, known for blending punk irreverence with ultra-feminine...
$1,750
Betsey Johnson prêt-à-porter, Fall-Winter 00/01 - Limited Edition Photograph
By Gérard Uféras
Located in Vienna, AT
This electrifying black and white photograph by Gérard Uféras captures the expressive energy of Betsey Johnson’s prêt-à-porter autumn-winter 2000–2001 season. Two models smoke backst...
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1990S BETSEY JOHNSON Burgandy & Cream Rayon Lycra Hawaiian Tropical Shirt
By Betsey Johnson
Located in New York, NY
1990S BETSEY JOHNSON Burgandy & Cream Rayon Lycra Hawaiian Tropical Shirt
1990S BETSEY JOHNSON Multicolor Striped Cotton Sweater Dress With Belt
By Betsey Johnson
Located in New York, NY
1990S BETSEY JOHNSON Multicolor Striped Cotton Sweater Dress With Belt
1990'S BETSEY JOHNSON Bias Cut High-Low Floral Rose Slip Dress
By Betsey Johnson
Located in New York, NY
1990'S BETSEY JOHNSON Bias Cut High-Low Floral Rose Slip Dress
1990S Betsey Johnson Dark Green Bias Cut Rayon Blend Style Dress
Located in New York, NY
1990S Betsey Johnson Dark Green Bias Cut Rayon Blend Style Dress
1990s Vintage Betsey Johnson ' Wallpaper ' Maxi Dress
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Simply amazing vintage Betsey Johnson maxi dress! Beautiful 'wallpaper' print throughout. 100% Rayon. Wonderful fit, that looks great alone, or with a belt. Perfect from day to night...
Betsey Johnson New Faux Fur Hooded Maxi Coat 1990s
By Betsey Johnson
Located in Water Mill, NY
A fabulous black faux fur full length coat by Betsey Johnson. It has a hood, side seam pockets and long soft luxurious faux fur. It closes in the front with fur hooks and is lined ...
1990s Vintage Betsey Johnson " Luxe " Black Velvet Mini Babydoll Dress
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Sexy 1990s Betsey Johnson "Luxe" black velvet mini dress! Bustier-like bodice, with straps that are adjustable in length. Ruffled hem, with matching ruffles at bust. Cute, sexy and f...
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Size: Small - Large
Iconic 1990s Vintage Betsey Johnson ' Barbie ' Crushed Velveteen Bodycon Dress
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Iconic Vintage 1990s Betsey Johnson crushed velveteen pink 'Barbie' dress! Flattering fit, with criss-cross back. A real head-turner! Looks great from day to night. Great with a belt...
1990s 90s Vintage Betsey Johnson Floral Silk Culottes Romper Jumpsuit / Playsuit
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Adorable vintage 1990s Betsey Johnson white silk culottes Jumpsuit/Playsuit! Wonderful floral print throughout. Adjustable strap length, with hidden zipper up the back. Ultra flatter...
1990s Vintage Betsey Johnson Tartan Plaid Tuxedo Ruffle Silk Blouse w/ Bow
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Chic vintage Betsey Johnson silk blouse! Amazing red tartan plaid, with tuxedo-like ruffle detail at neck, with bow. Buttons at side , with attached tie sash in the back. Buttons at ...
1990s Betsey Johnson Black Metallic Lurex Vintage 90s Mini Skater Dress Petite
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Remarkable vintage BETSEY JOHNSON black metallic Lurex skater dress! Features a black and silver metallic Lurex. Body hugging bodice, with a flared skater skirt. So, "Clueless" ! Loo...
Betsey Johnson Size 10 / 12 Brown Velour Bodycon Vintage Maxi Dress, 1990s
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Brilliant 90s BETSEY JOHNSON bodcon chocolate brown maxi dress! Features the softest luxurious brown velour fabric that stretches to fit. Simply slips over the head. Very flattering ...
1990s Betsey Johnson Rose Print Cotton Chiffon Semi Sheer Crop Top Mini Dress
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare early 90s vintage BETSEY JOHNSON pink, ivory and green rose flower print cotton and chiffon crop top / mini dress ! Simply slips over the head and stretches to fit. Cotton/Lycra...
1990s Betsey Johnson Rose Print Hot Pink + Green + Black Vintage 90s Mini Skirt
By Betsey Johnson
Located in San Diego, CA
Early 1990s BETSEY JOHNSON black, hot pink and green rose print rayon low rise mini skirt! Features asymmetrical rose prints in different sizes throughout. Fully lined, with hidden s...
Betsey Johnson Backless Pointilist Floral Maxi Dress
By Betsey Johnson
Located in Yucca Valley, CA
Excellent vintage 1990s Betsey Johnson pointillist maxi dress. Ultra soft vanilla colored brushed cotton stretch jersey with pointillist floral pattern. Flattering form fitting body ...
1990s Betsey Johnson Floral Baby Doll Dress
By Betsey Johnson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Showcasing a popular moment in designer fashion during the early 1990s (think Anna Sui's S/S 1994 collection and Courtney Love's signature look), the baby doll dress endures as an it...
1990s Betsey Johnson Forest Green Crushed Velvet Mini Dress
By Betsey Johnson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The perfect "skater chic" dress from the 1990s is this one from Betsey Johnson. Constructed from crushed velvet in a rich forest green, the full length of this dress is 31 inches. Sl...
1990s Betsey Johnson long sheer dress
By Betsey Johnson
Located in Milano, IT
1990s Betsey Johnson long sheer dress with devorè flower inserts. Sleeveless with wide straps, Inner slip. Size: M Waist: 75 cm Length: 147 cm Bust: 82 cm
Betsey Johnson Vintage Red Silk Bias Slip Dress w Flower Applique & Embroidery
By Betsey Johnson
Located in Portland, OR
This is a lovely vintage late 1990's or early 2000's Betsey Johnson slip dress in a deep red with pretty pink 3d ruffled flower appliques and embroidered leaves in shades of burgundy...
1990s Betsey Johnson Black Dot Lace Vintage Evening Dress w Floral Embroidery
By Betsey Johnson
Located in Portland, OR
This vintage 1990's Betsey Johnson black lace and tulle embroidered evening dress is so pretty in person! Vintage Betsey Johnson pieces are always great to collect but more important...
$1,195
Size: Small - Medium
1970s Vintage Yellow Cotton Voile + Lace Off - Shoulder Peasant Boho Maxi Dress
Located in San Diego, CA
Breathtakingly beautiful 70s pale yellow soft cotton voile and lace maxi dress! Features an incredible amount of craftsmanship, with heavy attention to detail. Gives off just the rig...
1990s Missoni Vintage Flower + Logo Silk Rayon Jersey 90s Empire Waist Top Shirt
By Missoni
Located in San Diego, CA
Wonderful vintage 90s MISSONI silk + rayon jersey empire waist sleeveless top! Features flowers in vibrant hues of green, purple, blue and pink throughout. Missoni logo printed in pi...
Missoni Colorful Silk Halter Dress
By Missoni
Located in Water Mill, NY
A fabulous colorful fine silk knit halter dress from Missoni in a red, orange, blue, yellow, white, lavender and black abstract pattern. It slips on over the head and has 2 black str...
$199Sale Price|20% Off
Size: 2
1990s Diane Von Furstenberg ' Leaf ' Print Safari Strapless Cotton Blouse
By Diane von Furstenberg
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful 90s Diane Von Furstenberg green and white cotton strapless top! 3-D leaf print, with a trapeze/free flowing waist. Buttons at top back. Can easily be dressed day to night. ...
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Size: Medium
1970s Hiroko Salmon / Coral Color Blocked Slinky Vintage 70s Bias Maxi Dress
Located in San Diego, CA
Slinky 1970s HIROKO salmon and coral color blocked jersey bias cut maxi dress! This beauty simply slips over the head and stretches to fit. Slimming diagonal stripes on the front and...
S/S 2004 Versace by Donatella Runway Neon Pop-Art Warhol Stretch Tank Top
By Versace, Donatella Versace
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This Versace tank top from the Spring/Summer 2004 collection, designed by Donatella Versace, is cut in a fitted silhouette in stretch cotton with a scoop neckline and yellow trim. Th...
$1,516Sale Price|20% Off
Size: 12
Beautiful 1990s Badgley Mischka Size 12 Fully Beaded Grey Vintage 90s Deco Gown
By BADGLEY MISHCKA, Badgley Mischka
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful vintage 1990s BADGLEY MISCHKA size 12 gray fully beaded + rhinestone deco style evening gown! Features elegant 3/4 sleeves with a fitted bodice and forgiving skirt. Hand cr...
John Galliano for Christian Dior S/S 2009 Silk Halter Dress
By Christian Dior, John Galliano
Located in Water Mill, NY
A gorgeous rich purple silk halter dress by John Galliano for Christian Dior. It is fitted through the bodice with a stunning intricately detailed ruffle trimmed plunge halter neckli...
Alexander McQueen New Silk Top with Tulle and Lace Sleeves S/S 1999
By Alexander McQueen
Located in Water Mill, NY
An incredible grey fine silk knit top from Alexander McQueen. It is semi fitted with a crew neckline and elaborate grey net, tulle and lace layered sleeves. Unworn condition. Fits s...
$948Sale Price|25% Off
Size: Medium
1960s Guy Laroche Couture Lipstick Red Virgin Wool A Line Vintage 60s Mini Dress
By Guy Laroche
Located in San Diego, CA
1960s GUY LAROCHE Couture lipstick red virgin wool A-Line mini dress! The perfect alternative to a little black dress, this red gem is sure to stand out! Hand made, with the utmost a...
Gianni Versace Red Leather Motorcycle Jacket and Skirt A/W 1994
By Gianni Versace
Located in Water Mill, NY
A fabulous and rare red patent leather motorcycle jacket with matching skirt from Gianni Versace. It has all of Versace's amazing attention to detail including Medusa head pulls on t...
Dolce & Gabbana Lace up Silk Dress
By Dolce & Gabbana
Located in Water Mill, NY
A beautiful silk dress in a pink and green geometric print from Dolce & Gabbana. The bodice is vertically boned, fitted through to the hips and has an attached matching pink adjusta...
UNWORN Christian Dior by John Galliano Deep Cleavage Laceup Silk Dress 4
By John Galliano for Christian Dior, Christian Dior
Located in Switzerland, CH
This dress is a variation of Goldie Hawn's Golden Globe Dress created exclusively by John Galliano An extremely luxurious and CHRISTIAN DIOR signature piece that will last you for y...
$2,495
Size: 44 / US 10 - 12
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche Sz 44 Black Corset / Bustier Dress YSL
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in San Diego, CA
Drop dead gorgeous vintage Yves Saint Laurent 'Rive Gauche' YSL black dress! Quite possibly the most flattering dress I have ever seen! This rare beauty does wonders for the body! Co...
Bill Blass for Maurice Rentner 1960s Wool Plaid Jacket + Skirt Suit Ensemble
By Bill Blass for Maurice Rentner
Located in Sparks, NV
Vibrant plaid jacket and skirt set by Bill Blass for Maurice Rentner. Gold buttons and chain detail. Pleated skirt. Details: Fully Lined Front Snap Closure On Jacket/ Side Hoo...
Vintage Ann Demeulemeester Black Wool Romper
By Ann Demeulemeester
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Ann Demeulemeester black sleeveless v-neck romper with buttons down center front, two front pockets and one back pocket, and adjustable straps at waist and at back. Excellen...
For fashion lovers, the 1990s have become associated with styles adopted by today’s supermodels and influencers, who never wear the same thing twice. And because fast fashion didn’t yet exist, the design associated with 1990s fashion — vintage '90s handbags, clothing and accessories — has a quality appreciated by the millennial generation: authenticity.
If there was one concept unifying fashion in the 1990s, it was the lean silhouette. “Fashion is a game of proportion,” Alexander Fury wrote in the New York Times in 2016. “Narrow-shouldered and narrow-hipped, the ’90s were skinny.”
If it takes a practiced eye to identify that single concept, that’s because in truth, ’90s fashion was many things to many people. After the 1980s era of strong-shouldered working women, glossy aerobicized bodies and Madonna, fashion branched out.
The industry gained momentum from big-money relaunches of the great Paris houses Dior, Givenchy and Balenciaga, rescued at long last from the constraints of licensing. Japan and Belgium gave fashion new avant-garde ideas to play with. From America came denim, minimalism, '90s grunge fashion and hip-hop. From Italy came sex appeal. And Prada.
For the colorful corsets of her 1990 Portrait collection, audacious British designer Dame Vivienne Westwood drew on 18th-century oil paintings — her models donned the pearl choker necklaces that have become a social media star and a favorite of influencers and fashion lovers all over the world. For a jacket-and-shorts suit from her Fall/Winter 1996–97 Storm in a Teacup line, the designer used the extreme asymmetry of a tartan mash-up to confront, according to Westwood, “the horror of uniformity and minimalism.”
“The ethos of the time was, you could have style, you could be into all kinds of cool stuff. It wasn’t about money, it wasn’t about status,” says Katy Rodriguez, cofounder of Resurrection. In contrast, “our last 10 years have seen the domination of nonstop luxury, money and status.”
Vintage 1990s Chanel bags, for example, are among the most prized of the brand’s offerings — at Newfound Luxury, proprietor L. Kiyana Macon has "clients who only buy ’90s Chanel because they recognize that it is the best quality.”
Things were different in the ’90s, and the difference is reflected in the clothes. Pull up any recent “How to Do the 1990s” fashion article (or look at photos of current supermodels Gigi, Kendall and Bella), and you’ll see iconic '90s outfits — knee socks, cardigans, fanny packs, fishnet stockings, slip dresses, flannel shirts and combat boots.
Rodriguez has recently noticed something similar happening. Before COVID, customers searched 1990s stock “for very sexy Galliano, Dior, Cavalli — that kind of thing,” she explains, noting that just a few months ago, “people were posting [on social media] the poshest things they could.” Now, in the age of shutdown, “that would just look out of touch.”
Instead, people are looking for “things that are cool but also easy and comfortable, not necessarily super-luxe,” Rodriguez continues. They’re “heading back to the more avant-garde, anti-fashion designers, like Helmut Lang, [Martin] Margiela and [Ann] Demeulemeester.”
Late designer Franco Moschino shocked and titillated the ’80s fashion elite with his whimsical, irreverent parodies of bourgeois finery. Whether emblazoning a sober blazer with smiley faces or embellishing a skirt suit with cutlery, Moschino rendered high style with a hearty wink. He famously said, “If you can’t be elegant, at least be extravagant” — words that, with all due respect to Susan Sontag, epitomize the essence of camp.
Vintage Moschino pants, jackets and other '90s Moschino garments remain so bold and fresh today that even the house's former creative director, Jeremy Scott, drew on the brand's past and the pop culture of the decade for his debut collection in 2014.
Find vintage 90s dresses, skirts, sweaters and other clothing and accessories on 1stDibs — shop Thierry Mugler, Miuccia Prada, Jean Paul Gaultier and more today.
Start building your collection of covetable and iconic vintage clothing today — no matter where you roam, there is a curated selection of designer dresses and gowns, sweaters, shirts, dazzling shoes and more on 1stDibs that will keep you covered in the hottest styles from head to toe.
From elegant museum-worthy vintage Chanel dresses and jackets to audacious T-shirts and trousers from provocative punk designer Vivienne Westwood, one thing is abundantly clear: If the clothing for sale on 1stDibs could talk, it would certainly make a statement.
For fashion lovers, the 1990s have become associated with styles adopted by today’s supermodels and influencers — think John Galliano and Roberto Cavalli — but maybe ‘80s accessories are among your (guilty?) pleasures.
Playful, boldly colored coats and outerwear from Moschino, Ralph Lauren and other titans of the era can take a simpler ensemble to the next level, while chic and practical suits from the likes of Christian Dior and Balmain endure for haute couture advocates and beyond.
And vintage is the name of the game on today’s red carpets, too. Celebrity stylists are turning to archival pieces created by the likes of Bob Mackie, Thierry Mugler and Jean-Paul Gaultier as alternatives to new gowns plucked straight off the runway. Wearing such sought-after items gives celebrities instant allure and suggests a personal style that’s not only achingly glamorous but intellectually informed and influenced by a love of craftsmanship.
Those seeking contemporary luxury looks and in-demand street-style fits can indulge in designs by Bottega Veneta, Miu Miu and Loro Piana, while pieces from Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Versace endure as examples of fashion’s most covetable goods.
The future — and glamorous past — of fashion is yours for the wearing. Find vintage clothing and accessories for sale on 1stDibs, including designs by Balenciaga, Valentino, Celine, Loewe and more.