Author: Sarah Sheehan
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Sewing with Hudson’s Bay
With its Hudson’s Bay Company branding, this 1920s Vogue Patterns leaflet recalls a time when Canadians could find high-end sewing supplies at their local seventeenth-century-trading-company-turned-department-store. The leaflet from March, 1929 is part of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives at the Archives of Manitoba. (Click image below to enlarge.) Under the old gothic-lettering wordmark, it shows…
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Free Designer Pattern: Rick Owens Shrug
“Rick Owens: Temple of Love” opened today at the Palais Galliera in Paris. To celebrate the designer’s first retrospective, this post is dedicated to SHOWstudio’s latest Design Download: a Rick Owens shrug. Part of the beauty of Owens’ avant-garde garments is their cut, so it’s fitting that the exhibition catalogue contains a section on pattern…
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