Tag: 1950s
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Arnold Scaasi: Vogue Patterns
In celebration of Canada Day, this post is dedicated to the late Arnold Scaasi. Arnold Scaasi (1930-2015) was born in Montreal as Arnold Isaacs. (Scaasi is Isaacs backwards—depending who you ask, the designer changed his name either to sound more Italian or less Jewish.) His father was a furrier, his mother had studied opera, and…
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Carmen Dell’Orefice
Carmen Dell’Orefice turns eighty-five today. Often called the world’s oldest working model, Carmen Dell’Orefice (b. 1931) was discovered at thirteen on a New York City bus; at sixteen she had her first Vogue cover. In 2011, the London College of Fashion devoted an exhibition to her modelling work, Carmen: A Life In Fashion. Dell’Orefice’s work…
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