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Creator: Oleg Cassini
Oleg Cassini Green Sequins Silk Vintage Evening Jacket 1990s
By Oleg Cassini
Located in Brindisi, Bt
Oleg Cassini elegant vintage 90s jacket. Evening blazer covered in sequins in changing colors from green to pink, the edges are covered in black beads. Clip closure, shoulder straps ...
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1990s Blazers

Vintage Oleg Cassini Winter White Faux Fur ' Pom Pom ' Jacket Coat
By Oleg Cassini
Located in San Diego, CA
Amazing vintage OLEG CASSINI faux fur white jacket! So much style is exuded from this lovely coat! Zips up the bodice, with pom poms at both sides of the collar. Features pockets at ...
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1980s American Jackets

Vintage 90s Oleg Cassini Size 8 / 10 Bronze Sequined Strapless 1990s Bustier Top
By Oleg Cassini, Black Tie by Oleg Cassini
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful 1990s OLEG CASSINI bronze fully sequins strapless silk bustier top ! Features thousands of hand-sewn sequins throughout the entire piece. Fu...
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1990s Bustiers

1960s Oleg Cassini Black Vinyl Fringe Vintage 60s Swimsuit or Bodysuit Onesie
By Oleg Cassini
Located in San Diego, CA
Super chic OLEG CASSINI 1960s black vinyl fringe swimsuit or bodysuit! Flattering boy cut cover the buttocks perfectly, and stretches to fit. Black vinyl fringe below the waist. Adju...
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1960s American Swimwear

Vintage Oleg Cassini Gold Sequin Silk Blouse / Shirt
By Oleg Cassini
Located in San Diego, CA
Wonderful vintage Oleg Cassini silk blouse, fully covered with gold sequins! Great shape, that is super versatile. Can easily transition from day ...
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1980s Blouses and Tops

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Red, Black & White Bunnies, Set of 3, Oleg Cassini, Playboy October 1979, Signed
By Oleg Cassini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Red, Black & White Bunnies, Set of 3, Oleg Cassini, Playboy October 1979, Signed. Property from the Collection of Steven Rosengard, Chicago, Illinois These original drawings were commissioned by Playboy and included in the October 1979 issue of Playboy Magazine (pages 225-227) in a feature that included works from designers such as Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini, Edith Head, Fernando Sanchez, and Monika Tilley, among others, who create their versions of the Playboy bunny costume. Candace Collins can be seen modeling some of the designs in the feature. Each Signed by Oleg Cassini. Approximate Measurements for each: Length: 11" Width: 14" Oleg Cassini is an icon of twentieth-century fashion. Though born to Russian aristocracy and raised in Italy, he built a fashion empire that was unmistakably American. Cassini is perhaps best known for the hundreds of designs he created for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (see images 4-7), but his achievements as a collector, connoisseur, and quintessential twentieth-century man go far beyond Camelot. In 1913, Oleg Cassini was born in Paris to the Russian diplomat Count Alexander Loiewski and Countess Marguerite Cassini, a Russian aristocrat of Italian ancestry who also had an interesting link to America. The daughter of Count Arthur Cassini, Russian Ambassador to the United States during the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations, Marguerite dazzled turn-of-the-century Washington as her father’s official hostess and left her mark on the capital city. Stationed in Denmark when the Russian Revolution toppled the czar, Ambassador Cassini and family were exiled to Switzerland before settling in Florence, Italy, where young Oleg was raised. A true Renaissance man, he spoke Russian, French, and Danish before adding Italian and English; he studied medieval and modern European military history and costume and learned to draw; he learned horseback riding, fencing, and the art of chivalry; and, most importantly, he came to understand the struggles of the Russian titled class and other European aristocrats in the wake of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Countess Cassini started a successful fashion business in Florence, and soon the talented young Oleg was sent to Paris to sketch the latest collections for recreation in Italy. In Rome in his early 20s, Cassini created fashions for high society women and designed for a few films, which planted the seed for his move to Hollywood. The drive to reinvent himself brought Cassini to America in the 1930s; in his autobiography he describes arriving nearly penniless in mid-Depression New York City where his title as an exiled Russian Count meant even less than in war-devastated Europe. Down and out, Cassini struggled for employment, having sketching skills but no knowledge of the wholesale trade required for survival in Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue fashion district. However, he excelled at making connections, and Cassini slowly entered New York society. He was soon joined by younger brother Igor (who had studied in America and travelled with the young Emilio Pucci) and his parents, the once-dazzling Countess and his father, the displaced diplomat still loyal to Russia. The family settled in Washington, D.C., and Igor worked his way up the Hearst newspaper chain to become the famous society columnist Cholly Knickerbocker. In New York, Oleg Cassini married the troubled socialite Merry Fahrney (who would go on to marry eight times), but the marriage ended in scandal for Oleg, and he decided to follow his original intention and head for Hollywood. Despite initial difficulties, Cassini gained access to Hollywood’s elite (partially through his skills on the tennis court), and was soon hired as a designer at Paramount Pictures alongside the redoubtable Edith Head. In her 1941 film debut I Wanted Wings, Veronica Lake wore a memorable Cassini design. That same year, Cassini met and married the newest young Hollywood star on the scene, the beautiful 20th Century Fox–talent Gene Tierney. With the outbreak of World War II, Cassini enlisted in the Coast Guard but was transferred to the U.S. Army Cavalry which allowed officers of foreign birth. He attended basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the horsemanship he learned as a boy served him greatly. He attended Officer Candidate School and reached the rank of First Lieutenant (he also became an American citizen at this time, losing his title of Count). Cassini spent several years posted at Fort Riley, where Tierney joined him before he landed a convenient military post in Hollywood. As Tierney’s career thrived (she played the title role in Otto Preminger’s Laura in 1944), she was able to assert her influence over 20th Century Fox’s head Daryl Zanuck, who hired Cassini as designer for Tierney on her 1946 film The Razor’s Edge, which proved to be a brilliant showcase for his talents. The pair separated the same year and, again seeking reinvention, Cassini re-established himself in New York City as a fashion designer. By 1950, the Oleg Cassini label was born. Combining his knowledge of Old World and modern Europe, Hollywood, the tennis courts of Palm Beach and Newport, and of course, New York City, Oleg Cassini invented a new brand of fashion that was distinctly American and of its moment. For his first collection, Cassini took to the stage, narrating the looks and imbuing the scene with his personality, unusual in an industry where the designers typically remained backstage and the models were called by number over a PA. The first collection was a smash — the president of Lord & Taylor devoted all of their storefront windows to his designs — and by 1955 sales had reached $5,000,000. Oleg Cassini’s career had turned a very positive corner. Cassini spent the early 1950s traversing the country, personally selling his collections to department stores in the interior, something his predecessors had never done, and moving between the Hollywood and New York scenes. Cassini’s brother Igor coined the term “the Jet Set” for this generation that constantly flew from New York to Los Angeles (then a ten-hour flight), Las Vegas, Paris, Rome, and the Riviera. In 1954, Cassini set out to woo Grace Kelly and sent her roses every day. The two were briefly engaged before her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco. In December 1960, Cassini’s career-defining opportunity came when he was chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design her fashions for the White House. Cassini had long known Joe Kennedy and his war-hero son John, and had first met Jacqueline Bouvier before her marriage in the early 1950s. Invited by President-Elect Kennedy to meet Jacqueline at Georgetown Hospital (she had just given birth to son John Jr.) to present to her drawings of potential dresses and First Lady looks, Cassini worked furiously to prepare a new line for the First Lady. Mrs. Kennedy had always had her clothes made by the top French couturiers of the day, but for the White House she wanted an American designer. Cassini wrote in his autobiography that he told the First Lady: “‘You have an opportunity here,’ I said, ‘for an American Versailles.’ She understood completely what I was trying to communicate; she began to talk excitedly about the need to create an entirely new atmosphere at the White House. She wanted it to become the social and intellectual capital of the nation” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 327). Mrs. Kennedy loved Cassini’s design for a gown to wear to the Inaugural Gala (she had already ordered a dress from Bergdorf’s for the Inaugural Ball), and Cassini was selected as the First Lady’s designer and was soon dubbed the “Secretary of Style.” From 1960 to 1963, Oleg Cassini would design over 300 items for Mrs. Kennedy, creating the “Jackie Look” that contributed not only to a fashion revolution but also the dawn of a new age. Cassini wrote that “Jackie played a very active role in the selection of her clothes. She loved brilliant colors — pistachio, hot pink, yellow, and white among others. Her sense of style was very precise; she would make editorial comments on the sketches I sent her. She always knew exactly what she wanted; her taste was excellent” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 334). After the Camelot years, Cassini’s business flourished and grew into a major industry; his name appeared on everything from couture to tennis-, sport-, and swimwear, car interiors, housewares, and perfume. He collected beautiful and rare artwork, arms and armor, and antique furniture, and lived the lifestyle projected by his image. From this period onward, Cassini also came to live in important homes. Of his Gothic Gramercy Park townhouse on Manhattan’s 19th Street he would write imaginatively, “I walked into the foyer and immediately fell in love. It was a place unlike any other in New York, a sixteenth-century Dutch house transported brick by brick from Europe by the Wells Fargo family in the early twentieth century. There was a vaulted, twenty-foot ceiling in the living room, leaded windows, elegantly carved wood paneling...
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Oleg Cassini round vintage eyeglasses
By Oleg Cassini
Located in Santa Clarita, CA
MAKE: Oleg Cassini MODEL: OC871 - LT/TO MADE IN: Italy ERA: 1980s CONDITION: New Old Stock [never worn] DIMENSIONS: Lens width: 48 mm / 1 7/8 in Lens height: 45 mm / 1 3/4 in Br...
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Vintage Oleg Cassini Size 8 1990s Burnt Orange Beaded 90s Long Sleeve Silk Dress
By Oleg Cassini, Black Tie by Oleg Cassini
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Beautiful vintage OLEG CASSINI burnt orange and gold beaded long sleeve high neck silk cocktail dress! Features hundreds of gold beads around the neck, chest and each sleeve cuff. Ch...
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1960s Oleg Cassini Red Pillbox Hat
By Oleg Cassini
Located in San Francisco, CA
1960s Red woven straw pillbox hat with grosgrain band and matching bow centered in the front.
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1960s Hats

1960's/1960's Oleg Cassini Black and Khaki Vinyl Wide Brimmed Hat
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1960's/1960's Black and Khaki Vinyl Wide Brimmed Hat with tall crown, matching black rolled piping, and bow tipped with brass accents
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Oleg Cassini Black Herringbone Mink Coat with Silver Fox Fur Collar and Trim
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Oleg Cassini Vintage Pink Silk Beaded Dress Evening Gown With Pearls and Sequins
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This stunning pink silk vintage dress was designed by Oleg Cassini in the 1980's. The dress is covered in pink bugle beads, pearls and sequins. These dresses are always a wonderful find when they are in such good condition and this one came from an estate we acquired that belonged to a 93 year old retired California judge. She took such good care of her wardrobe and we were fortunate to acquire her carefully chosen collection of designer pieces. This Oleg Cassini Black Tie dress...
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Oleg Cassini black tie halter sequin evening dress
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This is a Vintage mid 80’s BLACK TIE by Oleg Cassini peach color evening dress. Oleg Cassini was the former designer of Jackie Kennedy. The exquisite shapely lines are heavily bead...
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Stunning Vintage Oleg Cassini All Over Black + Gold Sequin Silk Dress
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Absolutely stunning vintage Oleg Cassini dress!!! Allover black sequins, with gold sequins throughout. Rhinestones at bust. The hem on this beauty i...
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Oleg Cassini Lavish silk beaded top Size small The dramatic show stopping silk top is embellished with elaborate beading in golden bronze metallic hues The glittering bugle bea...
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