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Spring 2020 Designer Pattern Highlights
Vogue Patterns lookbook for Spring 2020. Model: Tatyana Cooper. Photo: Jack Deutsch. Image: Issuu. It’s nearly the equinox: time for my Spring patterns report. As I mentioned back in December, I’ve...
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A Good Day for Tartan
Vogue 7175 (1967) Coordinates. In honour of Tartan Day, a Sixties Vogue Special Design for coordinates, shown in what looks to be the Munro tartan. Alba gu bràth!
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Free Designer Pattern: Mary Quant Georgie Dress
Georgie dress by Mary Quant (ca. 1962) Image: V&A. As part of its recent Mary Quant exhibit, the V&A shared a pattern for an early Quant design. The Georgie dress dates to the Bazaar days,...
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Summer 2020 Designer Pattern Highlights
Detail, Cynthia Rowley Resort 2019. Model: Sasha Belyaeva. Photo: William Eadon. Editor: Kit Keenan. Image: Vogue Runway. Have you seen the new summer patterns? For Summer, 2020, Rachel Comey covers...
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How Do You Spell Pride?
McCall’s 5567 (1977) Set of full colour iron-on transfers. This Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march, in New York City, on the one-year anniversary of Stonewall. Despite being...
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Fall 2020 Designer Pattern Highlights
Detail, Badgley Mischka Fall 2019 runway presentation. Model: Ajak Deng. Image: Vogue.com. The new Vogue patterns for fall 2020 play with drape and texture for dropping temperatures. Plus, for those...
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Jennifer Connelly at 50
Jennifer Connelly as Princess Leia, McCall’s 7772 (1981) Jennifer Connelly turned 50 this weekend. Before she starred in films like Labyrinth (1986) and A Beautiful Mind (2001), Connelly was a child...
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Patterns in Vogue: Stella Tennant by Steven Meisel
Stella Tennant in “Spare Change,” Vogue, May 1996. Photo: Steven Meisel. Editor: Camilla Nickerson. Image: Vogue Archive. Stella Tennant turns 50 today. In a Bauhaus-inspired, mid-’90s editorial, the...
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Libération at 50
Yves Saint Laurent smoking and shorts, Spring 1971 haute couture (Libération). “Les nouvelles vamps,” L’Officiel no. 583 (March 1971). Photo: Dominique Laporte. Image: jalougallery.com. Yves Saint...
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Spring/Summer 2021 Designer Pattern Highlights
Detail, Rachel Comey Resort 2020. Image: Vogue Runway. As Vogue Patterns was settling in under its new, British ownership, two seasons have gone by without my usual pattern report. I’ve been busy with...
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Oliviero Toscani at 80
McCall’s Carefree Fashion Catalog, Summer 1974. Photo: Oliviero Toscani. Happy 80th birthday to Oliviero Toscani! Before creating his famous Benetton campaigns, the Italian photographer shot this cover...
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Dracula 125
Dracula’s brides (Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak, and Cornelia Thaw) in Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931) Image: tumblr. Happy World Dracula Day! Today is the 125th anniversary of Bram Stoker’s Dracula....
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Fire and Blood: A House of the Dragon pattern
Targaryen view of McCall’s 8335. Image: Issuu. The Saturnalia begins today. Since ancient Rome was one of George R.R. Martin’s inspirations for Old Valyria, the Targaryen homeland, here’s a costume...
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Neo-Egyptomania
Neo-Egyptian cover of Needlecraft, June 1929. Illustration: Reginald P. Ward. Image: eBay. The tomb of Tutankhamun was rediscovered in November, 1922, making 2022 the centennial of all things King Tut....
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