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Patterns in Vogue: Marisa Berenson by Guy Bourdin
View post: Patterns in Vogue: Marisa Berenson by Guy BourdinIf you’re in London, you still have a week to see Guy Bourdin: Image Maker at Somerset House before it closes next Sunday. Bourdin shot only one Vogue pattern editorial that I know of: a two-page editorial for U.S. Vogue in 1966. The young Marisa Berenson models a shift dress and tent coat made from…
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Rock the Caftan
View post: Rock the CaftanCaftans, long, loose-fitting tunics with origins in ancient Persia, have been gaining momentum as an alternative to more structured formal dress. With any luck, there will be some caftans among the goddess gowns at tomorrow’s Academy Awards ceremony. They say Tsarina Alexandra was the first westerner to make a fashion statement in a caftan, when…
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