Tag: 1970s
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Le cocktail en Givenchy
In 1978, the Brussels Hilton had been freshly redecorated by Hubert de Givenchy, and L’Officiel publicized it with an editorial showing a pair of models as hotel guests dressed in Givenchy designs. The female model wears Spring 1978 Givenchy couture: “[R]obe en crêpe de Chine façonné à pois blancs sur fond bleu marine, d’Abraham, avec…
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Sand Dunes and Caftans
“Fashion’s hit cover-up” is how Vogue Patterns dubbed the caftan for this golden-hour desert scene in summer, 1973. Denise Hopkins and Karen Bjornson model two 1970s caftan patterns: Vogue 8587 and Vogue 2894, a Vogue Americana design by Chuck Howard. Vogue readers would have seen the regular Vogue pattern in U.S. Vogue’s May 1973 issue…
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