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Mad Men Era 8: McCall’s New York Designers
View post: Mad Men Era 8: McCall’s New York DesignersWith Mad Men entering its final season, my Mad Men-era series concludes with two posts on fashion designers whose work became available to home sewers in the mid-Sixties. (Browse the series by clicking the Mad Men era tag, or start at the beginning.) Before the Vogue Americana line there was McCall’s New York Designers’ Collection. In…
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Celia Hammond
View post: Celia HammondBorn in Indonesia, Celia Hammond was discovered by Norman Parkinson in the early 1960s and went on to build a career as a top model in Paris and Swinging London. Hammond may be seen on many designer patterns from Vogue and Butterick from the mid-1960s, always by British designers. Here she models an LBD with…
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