Tag: John Galliano
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About Time: Fashion and Duration
The PatternVault blog turns nine today! It’s been a pleasure writing about vintage fashion for you, for almost a decade. Speaking of the passage of time, this year’s major Costume Institute show, About Time: Fashion and Duration, also considers questions of style and temporality. Planned to mark the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary, the…
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Vogue Paris 100
Today is the 100th anniversary of Vogue Paris. To celebrate, here’s a decade-by-decade look at Paris and patterns from the 1920s to now. (Click the images for more.) In the 1920s, designs by Chanel and other Paris couturiers were available from the McCall Pattern Company. (See my article in the new issue of Selvedge.) In…
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