Tag: 1970s
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Libération at 50
Yves Saint Laurent’s landmark Spring 1971 haute couture collection, LibĂ©ration, is 50. For more on the designer’s LibĂ©ration collection, see my 2015 post here. Saint Laurent unveiled the collection in Paris on January 29, 1971. Licensed LibĂ©ration patterns were available from Vogue the next season, photographed by the late Frank Horvat. The LibĂ©ration dress pattern…
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How Do You Spell Pride?
This Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march, in New York City, on the one-year anniversary of Stonewall. Despite being headquartered in New York, the big pattern companies have an uneven record of celebrating Pride — at least visibly, on social media. In past years, I’ve tweeted about this silence. A search…
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