Emanuel Ungaro vintage costume jewelry

Emanuel Ungaro vintage costume jewelry
Renowned French couturier and founder of the fashion house Emanuel Ungaro passed away on December 21, 2019. A student of Balenciaga, an adherent of sensual fashion, he was also the author of designer costume jewelry.
Many celebrities, TV presenters, judges and simply fashionable women wore his jewelry, wanting to emphasize their style. Besides, he was one of favorite couturiers of Catherine Deneuve and Jacqueline Kennedy.
The Ungaro family moved from Italy to southern France shortly before the birth of Emanuel (the second of six children), in 1933, fleeing the fascist regime of Mussolini. His father was a tailor, so the boy helped in the atelier from childhood.
22 year-old Ungaro moved to Paris, and three years later, in 1958, he became a student of Cristobal Balenciaga, one of the main stars of the fashion world in Paris and around the world.
Opening his fashion house in 1965, Ungaro declared that he would “design clothes for women of this era.” His popularity peaked in the 1970s and 1980s, with the opening of a boutique in New York in 1977. Along with the clothing, he designed accessories and, in particular, costume jewelry. Made with high quality, using the best materials, this jewelry is highly collectible now. Traditionally, the designer used gold filling, cabochons, faux pearls and enamel.

Noteworthy, as Ungaro was also the maker of the perfume design, he represented Emanuel Ungaro perfume bottles alongside with brooches and pins. Accordingly, some of these decorations were originally sold with perfume, signed “Perfume Ungaro Paris”.

Emanuel Ungaro vintage costume jewelry

At the beginning of the 2000s, the designer began to retire and by 2004 completely left not only his own fashion house, but also the industry as a whole, declaring that the world of haute couture no longer meets the “expectations of modern women.”

The house of Emanuel Ungaro will be remembered for the legacy left by its founder in the history of fashion. He spoke of fashion as something, on the one hand, not the most serious, but on the other hand, the vital, that brings us joy, and gives confidence. Now, when the world is shaken by cataclysms and crises, such an attitude to fashion, perhaps, can be called Ungaro’s main legacy, along with dresses in the collections of world museums and costume jewelry, which is collectible.