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Free Designer Pattern: Antony Price Evening Dress
Antony Price’s Macaw dress. Image via SHOWstudio. Just in time for the recent Eighties revival, SHOWstudio’s 2009 instalment in its Design Download series was an evening dress by Antony Price. Short,...
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Patterns in Vogue: Courrèges Edge
Kate Moss in “Courrèges Edge.” Photo: Nick Knight, 1995. Today we’re used to a firm division between fashion magazines and sewing magazines. But for several decades after Condé Nast sold Vogue...
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Anna Sui: Vogue Patterns, Part 1
Linda Evangelista in Anna Sui, Harper’s Bazaar, August 1995. Photo: Patrick Demarchelier. Anna Sui (b. 1955) is beloved for her playfully postmodern designs. Sui collections are typically full of...
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Free Designer Pattern: J.W.Anderson Top and Skirt
Model: Alexandra O’Connor. Photo: Jon Emmony. Image via SHOWstudio on Twitter. SHOWstudio’s latest Design Download is a free pattern for a top and balloon skirt by J.W.Anderson. Anderson, who is...
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Anna Sui: Vogue Patterns, Part 2
Anna Sui cosmetics and fragrance campaign, spring 1999. This week, the second part of my series on Vogue patterns by Anna Sui. (See Part 1 here.) 5. Anna Sui, Spring/Summer 1999 collection Sui’s Spring...
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DVF Wrap Dress 40th Anniversary
Vogue Patterns, September/October 1976. Image via Musings from Marilyn. Diane von Fürstenberg’s wrap dress celebrates its 40th anniversary this month. The famous dress, which officially made its debut...
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Vogue 2248 by Alexander McQueen for Givenchy
I made the first of my patterns by Alexander McQueen for Givenchy: the cowl-neck sheath dress, Vogue 2248. (See my earlier post here.) Vogue 2248 by Alexander McQueen for Givenchy (1999) I had planned...
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Schiaparelli Patterns, Part 1
Guinevere Van Seenus in vintage 1930s Schiaparelli, Vogue, May 2012. Photo: Steven Meisel. Image via vogue.com. Have you heard? The house of Schiaparelli, founded by the legendary Elsa Schiaparelli...
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Billie Blair
Billie Blair on the cover of Interview magazine, August 1974. Image via Lipstick Alley. Born in Flint, Michigan, Billie Blair (b. 1946) worked as a model at the Detroit Auto Show before becoming one of...
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Schiaparelli Patterns, Part 2
Paris Originals by Schiaparelli (left) and Jacques Heim (right). Vogue, November 15, 1949. Photo: Richard Rutledge. This week, the second part of my series on commercial sewing patterns by Elsa...
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Patterns in Vogue: Clean Cuts
Guinevere Van Seenus in Vogue, November 1997. Photo: Mario Testino. This week, the second post in my occasional series on Vogue’s pattern editorials. (See the first post here.) “Clean Cuts,” from the...
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Celia Hammond
Celia Hammond in Paco Rabanne. British Vogue, May 1966. Photo: David Bailey. Image via Vogue UK. Born in Indonesia, Celia Hammond was discovered by Norman Parkinson in the early 1960s and went on to...
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Mad Men Era 8: McCall’s New York Designers
Jane and Roger Sterling (Peyton List and John Slattery) in Mad Men, season 5. Image via AMC. With Mad Men entering its final season, my Mad Men-era series concludes with two posts on fashion designers...
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Mad Men Era 9: Butterick’s Young Designers
Megan Draper (Jessica Paré) in a Mad Men season 7 promotional photo. Image via AMC. My series on Mad Men-era designer patterns concludes this week with three Butterick Young Designers: Mary Quant, Jean...
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Patrick Kelly: Vogue Patterns
Patrick Kelly Fall 1988 collection. Photo: Oliviero Toscani. Image via Dazed Digital. This past weekend, the exhibition Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Read...
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Free Designer Pattern: Patrick Kelly One-Seam Coat
One-seam coat by Patrick Kelly, 1985. Image via the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As part of its current exhibition, Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is sharing a pattern for...
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Nena von Schlebrügge and Uma Thurman
Nena von Schlebrügge on the cover of Vogue Pattern Book, Autumn 1960. Image via eBay. (A late Mother’s Day post since I was under the weather yesterday.) In honour of Mother’s Day, this models post is...
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Patterns in Vogue: Rebecca Lobo
Rebecca Lobo photographed by Michel Comte, Vogue, November 1997. In 1997, Michel Comte photographed pro basketball player Rebecca Lobo for Vogue magazine in an evening dress made from a Vogue pattern....
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Patterns in Vogue: Red Hot
Kate Moss photographed by Juergen Teller, Vogue, June 1994. It’s Kate Moss Month at SHOWstudio, so I was able to update my “Courrèges Edge” post with a newly released, early fashion film by Nick Knight...
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Envelope Fail: Vogue 2893 by Donna Karan
Donna Karan Spring 2005 ad campaign. Model: Erin Wasson. Photo: Peter Lindbergh. When I first started collecting sewing patterns, Naomi was baffled. She couldn’t understand my interest when the styling...
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