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Worth: Inventing Haute Couture
View post: Worth: Inventing Haute CoutureIn Paris, a major exhibit devoted to the House of Worth is entering its final weeks. Hosted by the city’s Musée des Beaux-Arts in collaboration with the Palais Galliera, the show offers visitors a rare glimpse of 19th-century designs by Charles Frederick Worth, the pioneer of haute couture, as well as later pieces from the…
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Sand Dunes and Caftans
View post: Sand Dunes and Caftans“Fashion’s hit cover-up” is how Vogue Patterns dubbed the caftan for this golden-hour desert scene in summer, 1973. Denise Hopkins and Karen Bjornson model two 1970s caftan patterns: Vogue 8587 and Vogue 2894, a Vogue Americana design by Chuck Howard. Vogue readers would have seen the regular Vogue pattern in U.S. Vogue’s May 1973 issue…
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