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Gaultique
View post: GaultiqueLate last month I had the opportunity to visit “La Planète mode de Jean Paul Gaultier. De la rue aux étoiles / The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. (Overheard in the “À fleur de peau/Skin Deep” room: a father telling the…
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Mad Men Era 2: The Old Guard II
View post: Mad Men Era 2: The Old Guard IIThis week my series on Mad Men-era designer patterns continues with four designers who established their labels between the early 1940s and 1950: Jacques Griffe, Pauline Trigère, Pierre Balmain, and Pierre Cardin. Jacques Griffe (1917-1974) Jacques Griffe was born in the medieval city of Carcassonne, France. After two apprenticeships, first with a tailor and then…









