70 Years of Hermes & Chanel: NYC Estate

Across nearly seven decades, one Park Avenue collector built a wardrobe the way collections like this used to be built - from a short list of houses, in colors and leathers chosen rather than acquired, with each piece kept in rotation rather than archived. Her first Herm?s Constance arrived as an engagement gift in 1955; her last Birkin came home in 2019. In between: Chanel for the boardroom, Lady Dior for lunch at the Carlyle, Capucines for Friday evenings, Goyard for the Concorde to Paris, the Cartier Loves she layered with the Juste un Clou her husband gave her at...