Patterns in Vogue: Snow Whites

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Colour photo of a model standing on a ski slope holding two husky puppies
Kristen McMenamy in a Ralph Lauren jacket and Vogue-made ski pants (Arnet sunglasses; boots, Sorel by Kaufman Footwear), Vogue, November 1995. Photo: Arthur Elgort. Editor: Grace Coddington.
Image: Vogue Archive.

In honour of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, here’s a high-altitude image of Kristen McMenamy on the slopes.

Shot at Mammoth Mountain in the Sierra Nevada, California, “Snow Whites” is a twenty-page portfolio by Arthur Elgort and Grace Coddington devoted to “gleaming white technochic.”

McMenamy’s ski pants were made using Very Easy Vogue 9369 (previously seen in Elgort and Coddington’s “High-Toned Tweeds“) with fabric from B&J Fabrics — as always “edited by Vogue.”

(Hair, Didier Malige for Frederic Fekkai Beauté; makeup, Mary Greenwell.)

For more skiwear, see my post, “Schuss! Vintage Skiwear Patterns.”

Fran Jeffries and other spectators at Cortina d’Ampezzo in The Pink Panther (1963).

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