Vintage 1998 Giorgio Beverly Hills Collector’s Bear – Black Teddy in Yellow Outfit

Meet one of Giorgio’s bears.

This black teddy dates specifically to 1998, with the original stitched paw label identifying it as a Giorgio Beverly Hills Collector’s Bear.

Its design is wonderfully late-’90s Giorgio: shaggy black plush contrasted with a brown muzzle and paw pads, finished with a vivid yellow outfit carrying GIORGIO across the front in red.

It wasn’t the only Giorgio bear, either. Giorgio Beverly Hills produced Collector’s Bears across a number of years, with surviving dated examples creating a rather unexpected little collecting series alongside the brand’s much better-known fragrances.

This example retains its original yellow outfit and, importantly, the sewn 1998 Collector’s Bear label on its paw.

It’s in good vintage condition overall, with visible age and handling wear including some fraying and loose fibres around the outfit and age to the sewn foot label. We’ve photographed these details so its condition can be judged clearly.

Not enormously valuable. Not impossibly rare. Just a wonderfully peculiar surviving piece of late-1990s Giorgio Beverly Hills memorabilia.

And that’s precisely why we kept it.