Tag: couture
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Red Stole, Pink Dress, 1956 / 2026
On Sunday, Jessie Buckley became the first Irish actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. The silhouette of her custom, red-and-pink Chanel ensemble might nod to Grace Kelly, but for vintage pattern aficionados, the colours are pure Givenchy. This ad for Hubert de Givenchy’s first collaboration with McCall’s shows his couturier original in…
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The Mysterious Mata Kiato
For Haute Couture Week, I’m sharing my original research into a forgotten couture house: the house of Mata Kiato. A pair of couture sewing patterns seem to be the only remaining trace of Paris couturier Mata Kiato. Contemporary sources credit Mata Kiato as the designer of two interwar couture patterns from McCall’s, but it’s difficult…
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