Category: in memoriam
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Oscar de la Renta: Vogue Patterns, Part 2
Oscar de la Renta was born in July 1932; he would have turned 84 last week. In honour of his birthday, I’ll be looking at Oscar de la Renta sewing patterns from the 1990s and 2000s. (See Part 1 here.) 1990s The 1990s marked Oscar de la Renta’s fourth decade with Vogue Patterns. From 1990,…
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Arnold Scaasi: Vogue Patterns
In celebration of Canada Day, this post is dedicated to the late Arnold Scaasi. Arnold Scaasi (1930-2015) was born in Montreal as Arnold Isaacs. (Scaasi is Isaacs backwards—depending who you ask, the designer changed his name either to sound more Italian or less Jewish.) His father was a furrier, his mother had studied opera, and…
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