Category: in memoriam
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China Machado for Vogue Patterns
China Machado, the first mixed-race supermodel, has died. She was 86. Born in Shanghai to Chinese and Portuguese parents, China Machado (1929-2016) was famous for working with Richard Avedon and Hubert de Givenchy. Later, she became a different kind of pioneer, as a model-turned-editor, when she succeeded Diana Vreeland as fashion director at Harper’s Bazaar.…
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James Galanos: Vogue Patterns
This week, a look at the late James Galanos’ licensed Vogue patterns. (See my McCall’s post here.) 1960s Vogue Patterns introduced James Galanos patterns in late 1967, with two dress designs modelled by Maud Adams and Lauren Hutton. The counter catalogue promotes Galanos’ “masterful touch” with an alternate shot of Vogue 1854, an A-line dress…
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