Category: 1980s
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Goodbye Donna Karan, Hello Urban Zen?
Have you heard? Vogue’s Donna Karan and DKNY patterns will no longer be available after next Wednesday, July 13th. According to the McCall Pattern Company, the licensor of the Donna Karan trademarks [the LVMH-owned Gabrielle Studio Inc.] has decided to end all pattern licensing. (Source: Facebook.) Vogue Patterns has been publishing Donna Karan patterns since…
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Carmen Dell’Orefice
Carmen Dell’Orefice turns eighty-five today. Often called the world’s oldest working model, Carmen Dell’Orefice (b. 1931) was discovered at thirteen on a New York City bus; at sixteen she had her first Vogue cover. In 2011, the London College of Fashion devoted an exhibition to her modelling work, Carmen: A Life In Fashion. Dell’Orefice’s work…
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