Or is it possible that, despite the designer pedigree, it's just a dress?
Widen the field by using search terms like "midcentury" or "Eames era" for pieces with similar lines but not the costly designer pedigree.
Among these, the Fiat Jolly commands the most attention and the highest prices, owing to its low production, designer pedigree and colorful history.
More than ever, babies are staking their own wee claim on the luxury goods market, as parents eagerly swaddle their children in clothes, accessories and other assorted products with designer pedigrees.
Buccellati - 810 Madison Avenue Another luxury designer with a pedigree, dating from the 18th century - but home to extraordinary pieces handcrafted in small workshops.
This year's fashion statements are one-piece dresses and designer sportswear, accessorized with pedigreed dogs and Fendi bags.
Olivier Biltereyst, 65C, rue de la Régence, (32-475) 21 62 94, online at users.belgacom.net/obiltereyst, sells 1970's decorative French furniture as well as pieces by pedigreed designers, like Alvar Aalto's 1931 laminated birch chair.
Mr. Barrett's pedigree as a designer is akin to a banker who has hurdled Harvard, Stanford Business School and Goldman Sachs.
In a surprising reversal of long-standing policy, the company, which once kept its designers' identities as closely guarded as that of a C.I.A. field operative, has been vigorously promoting a roster of new designers, each with an impressive pedigree.
Whether you elect to put an ethical twist on a recent trend or refashion a classic piece in an innovative green fibre, we invite designs from budding student designers to those with established pedigrees.
As the daughter of an illustrious dress designer (whose vintage clothes, designed here by Jane Greenwood, she wears most fetchingly), Julie, who was a teenage movie actress, obviously has a different pedigree than the hillbilly Holly.
