Mad Men Era Roundup

Did you watch the Mad Men finale Sunday night? If you aren’t ready to say goodbye, a New York exhibition, Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, brings together sets, props, costumes, and other production materials from the show (at the Museum of the Moving Image to June 14, 2015).

Soon after launching this blog in 2011, I began a series on Mad Men-era designer patterns. Like the TV series, it shows the changes that were taking place in fashion in the 1960s. Here’s the full roundup:

• High Fashion in the Mad Men Era

1. The Old Guard I – Jacques Heim, Madame Grès, Jo Mattli, and Jean Dessès
2. The Old Guard II – Jacques Griffe, Pauline Trigère, Pierre Balmain, and Pierre Cardin
3. London’s Old Guard – Ronald Paterson, John Cavanagh, Michael Donéllan, and Edward Molyneux
4. Old House, New Designer – Lanvin, Patou, Nina Ricci, and Dior
5. The Europeans – Rodríguez, Simonetta, Fabiani, and Pucci
6. New Talent – Guy Laroche, Irene Galitzine, and Federico Forquet
7. Millinery – Sally Victor, John Frederics, Guy Laroche, and Halston
8. McCall’s New York Designers – Bill Blass, Geoffrey Beene, and Anne Klein
9. Butterick’s Young Designers – Mary Quant, Jean Muir, and Emmanuelle Khanh

I also have two posts on Yves Saint Laurent’s 1965 Mondrian collection, Mondrian! and my version of Vogue 1556, and for the later 1960s, a designers post on Rudi Gernreich.