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Free Designer Pattern: Alyx Pleat Dress
View post: Free Designer Pattern: Alyx Pleat DressThe new Design Download from SHOWstudio is an Alyx shirtdress. Alyx was founded in 2015 by Matthew M. Williams, a well-connected American designer now based in Ferrara, Italy. (For more, see Emilia Petrarca, “Kanye West and LVMH-Approved: Meet Designer Matthew Williams” and Matthew Schneier, “Matthew Williams, Renaissance Man.”) For the Alyx Fall 2017 collection, Williams…
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Jill Kennington
View post: Jill KenningtonBritish model-turned-photographer Jill Kennington turns 75 today. Born and raised in Lincolnshire, Jill Kennington (b. 1943) moved to London at 18, working at Harrods and staying with her aunt, who was a buyer there. Scouted by Michael Whittaker, the founder of the Whittaker Enterprises agency, she was hired as a house model at Norman Hartnell…
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