Tag: 1990s
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Richard Tyler for Anne Klein: Vogue Patterns, Part 1
Richard Tyler recently celebrated his eightieth birthday. In honour of Los Angeles’ master tailor, I’ll be presenting a series on Richard Tyler’s Vogue patterns, licensed while he was head designer for Anne Klein. The Australian-born Richard Tyler (b. 1946) first learned to sew from his mother, who was a professional dressmaker. At sixteen, he left…
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Patterns in Vogue: Snow Whites
In honour of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, here’s a high-altitude image of Kristen McMenamy on the slopes. Shot at Mammoth Mountain in the Sierra Nevada, California, “Snow Whites” is a twenty-page portfolio by Arthur Elgort and Grace Coddington devoted to “gleaming white technochic.” McMenamy’s ski pants were made using Very Easy Vogue 9369 (previously seen…
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