About

The Archive

Per Se Vintage is a curated archive of authenticated vintage designer costume jewelry. The focus is the mid-to-late twentieth century, when the major fashion houses maintained dedicated jewelry ateliers and produced pieces that reflected the full ambition of their runway collections.

Every piece is sourced, authenticated, and documented before it is offered. Nothing is listed until its origin and era are understood.

The Source

Japan became one of the most important markets for European designer costume jewelry during the 1970s and 1980s. Many pieces that arrived there entered a culture that treated them as collectible objects rather than disposable accessories.

Stored carefully, handled sparingly, and preserved by collectors who recognized their design value, these pieces often survived in remarkable condition.

Today, some of the best preserved examples of Dior, Chanel, Lacroix, Versace, and Saint Laurent from this period continue to surface in that market. PSV sources directly from it.

The Archive

Per Se Vintage is a curated archive of authenticated vintage designer costume jewelry. The focus is the mid-to-late twentieth century, when the major fashion houses maintained dedicated jewelry ateliers and produced pieces that reflected the full ambition of their runway collections.

Every piece is sourced, authenticated, and documented before it is offered. Nothing is listed until its origin and era are understood.

The Source

Japan became one of the most important markets for European designer costume jewelry during the 1970s and 1980s. Many pieces that arrived there entered a culture that treated them as collectible objects rather than disposable accessories.

Stored carefully, handled sparingly, and preserved by collectors who recognized their design value, these pieces often survived in remarkable condition.

Today, some of the best preserved examples of Dior, Chanel, Lacroix, Versace, and Saint Laurent from this period continue to surface in that market. PSV sources directly from it.

The Founder

Per Se Vintage was founded by Lauren Spector, a longtime collector of late-twentieth-century runway jewelry. Before establishing PSV, she spent more than two decades as a senior executive at global media and technology companies, where her work sat at the intersection of business, culture, and emerging technology.

After years spent sourcing and authenticating pieces privately, she began building the PSV archive to preserve and circulate examples that defined a particular moment in fashion history.

The Philosophy

The houses that produced this jewelry no longer produce it in the same way. The ateliers have changed. The materials have changed. The craftspeople who hand-set stones, cast glass, and applied gold plating at the thickness this era demanded have largely retired.

What exists now is what was made then.

Per Se Vintage exists to find those pieces, establish what they are, and place them with people who understand what they have.

The archive continues to grow as new pieces emerge from private collections and overlooked markets.