Category: The pattern business
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Fall 2018 Designer Pattern Highlights
Have you seen the new Fall patterns? Vogue’s cover look is a cropped trench jacket by Sharon Lombardo for Anne Klein. Trousers also included: The cropped trench is a signature Anne Klein piece, seen in the Fall ’15 (above) and Fall ’16 campaigns. (See my post on Vogue’s Winter/Holiday release.) From Badgley Mischka, a day-to-evening…
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Sewing and Smoking
Today is World No Tobacco Day. Here’s a look at a Virginia Slims ad that ran in Vogue Patterns magazine. The mid-’70s ad—with the famous You’ve come a long way, baby slogan—contrasts the fashionable, contemporary Cheryl Tiegs with the Edwardian “Mrs. Florine Knauff,” caught smoking during a fox hunt. Along the lower left-hand side, the…
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