Tag: couture
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Yves Saint Laurent for Dior: Vogue Patterns
For Paco Peralta. Before Vogue Patterns introduced Yves Saint Laurent with patterns from the Mondrian collection, the company had already licensed the designer’s work for the house of Dior. (Read more at the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, or see Dustin’s post here.) Yves Saint Laurent was appointed head designer at Dior after…
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Schiaparelli Patterns, Part 2
This week, the second part of my series on commercial sewing patterns by Elsa Schiaparelli. (See Part 1 here.) Schiaparelli was one of the eight couturiers who licensed designs for the first Vogue Paris Originals in 1949. Vogue’s first Schiaparelli pattern was a skirt suit with double pockets and one-sleeved blouse, Vogue 1051: The suit…
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