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Southern beauty queen and model Angeleen (1950-2009) is a familiar face to vintage pattern aficionados. Born Angelina Marie Gagliano, she was also a keen equestrian—she is the model in Chris von Wangenheim’s circa 1975 series Untitled (Woman with horse). (It’s her horse. See prints at Christie’s and Staley-Wise Gallery.) Her son, Jason Storch, has posted a short bio here.

Angeleen did a lot of work for Simplicity, McCall’s, and especially Vogue Patterns in the mid-1970s. Here she is on the cover of a Very Easy Vogue catalogue:

Angeleen can be seen on some of the earliest Vogue patterns from Sonia Rykiel, Chloé, and Calvin Klein:

Here she models Halston’s spiral-cut dress for McCall’s (see Dustin’s recent post on this pattern here):

My personal favourite patterns featuring Angeleen are the ones for ’70s evening wear, like these designs from Balmain and Lanvin:

See youthquaker’s blog and facebook for more photos of Angeleen from British Vogue. Thanks to Jason Storch for his assistance.

Tagged: 1970s, Balmain, Calvin Klein, Chloé, Halston, Lanvin, McCall's, models, Sonia Rykiel, Vogue Patterns

§ 2 Responses to Angeleen

• Dustin says:

  October 27, 2012 at 1:52 am

  I’ve known the face for quite a while, but never knew the name. When a model is known by her first name it usually means that she made it! She modelled for many of my favourite patterns from the 1970′s, I’m a fan of all those pictured above. It’s sad to hear that Angeleen is no longer around.

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• Beverly Johnson « PatternVault says:

  February 7, 2013 at 1:57 pm

  [...] Johnson appears on several early Calvin Klein patterns, including this set of casual separates (in series with the pantsuit modelled by Angeleen Gagliano): [...]

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