Category: Designers
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Rachel Comey Returns
After a winter-holiday break, Vogue Patterns are back, and so is Rachel Comey. Vogue Patterns changed hands again last September, and the new ownership sat out the Winter/Holiday season — normally an important time of year for new designer patterns. But even without the recent upheaval, sewists would have been justified in thinking the cult…
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The Mysterious Mata Kiato
For Haute Couture Week, I’m sharing my original research into a forgotten couture house: the house of Mata Kiato. A pair of couture sewing patterns seem to be the only remaining trace of Paris couturier Mata Kiato. Contemporary sources credit Mata Kiato as the designer of two interwar couture patterns from McCall’s, but it’s difficult…
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