Author: Sarah Sheehan
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Upcoming Event: The Old Book and Paper Show
If you’ll be in the Toronto area on Sunday, April 1st, I invite you to stop by the PatternVault booth at the Old Book and Paper Show. The semi-annual event showcases vintage and antiquarian books and a wide variety of paper ephemera. The show runs from 10 am to 4 pm at Wychwood Barns, a…
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Helmut Newton for YSL Rive Gauche, 1991
I love finding pattern designs in ad campaigns. Vogue 1016 by Yves Saint Laurent is a long-sleeved, full-skirted formal dress with a dramatic décolletage and optional stretch-lace camisole: The news from Paris that season was lower hemlines, with pleated skirts and tartans at Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche. (See Bernadine Morris, “Review/Fashion; New Tricolor in…
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