Author: Sarah Sheehan
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Patterns in Vogue: Instant Impact in SoHo
Last New Year’s, I published a special image gallery celebrating 125 years of Vogue patterns,with some new-to-the-blog ‘Patterns in Vogue’ images like Horst’s 1941 portrait of Elsa Schiaparelli, which I posted about in September. This post is about another photo from that image gallery. Further evidence of the early ’80s black-lace trend: for Vogue’s November…
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Soft Holiday Fashions, 1973
A red, hooded, designer maxi dress makes the case for “Soft Holiday Fashions” on this festive Butterick home catalogue cover from Winter, 1973. The same image was used for the cover of the December retail catalogue, and although both covers show only the pattern number, the dress is by Kenzo Takada — at the time,…
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