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Advance Paris Styles for February, 1939
View post: Advance Paris Styles for February, 1939Happy Tartan Day! This cover for the February 1939 issue of McCall Advance Paris Styles celebrates tartan and colour. Illustrator Blanche Rothschild gives her model a green handbag and long green hat feathers to match the green in her (mostly red) tartan jacket. The pattern is McCall 3077, a dress and strong-shouldered jacket that was…
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Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
View post: Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes ArtThis weekend Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art, the UK’s first exhibition devoted to the House of Schiaparelli, opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The blockbuster show explores Schiaparelli’s artistic collaborations, starting in the 1920s, and is produced in collaboration with the fashion house under current designer Daniel Roseberry. The exhibition catalogue, edited by curators…
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