Category: Designers
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Krizia: McCall’s Patterns
Krizia was already an established label when McCall’s licensed Krizia patterns in the late 1970s. Designer Mariuccia Mandelli (b. 1933) co-founded the company with her friend Flora Dolci in the 1950s, naming it after Plato’s unfinished dialogue Κριτίας (Critias)—Crizia in Italian. The label is known for eclectic, youthful designs that play with pattern and contrast.…
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The Fantastic Mr Fox: Style Patterns by Frederick Fox
Ascot begins today. To celebrate, this post is dedicated to commercial patterns by the late milliner to the Queen, Frederick Fox. (Last year I featured a free pattern for a Stephen Jones hat; see it here.) Born in Australia to a large family, Frederick Fox (1931-2013) showed an early interest in millinery, refashioning hats for…
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