Tania Mallet wears Mary Quant and James Wedge on the cover of British Vogue, October 1, 1963. Photo: Brian Duffy. Image: eBay.
Model and Bond girl Tania Mallet (b. 1941) was born in Blackpool to English and Russian-English parents. (Her mother, Olga Mironoff, was Helen Mirren’s paternal aunt.) She began working as a model in the late 1950s after taking a course at the Lucie Clayton Charm Academy. You may recognize her from her role as Tilly Masterson in Goldfinger (1964).
Mallet’s modelling work in the 1960s included editorials for Vogue patterns and Vogue Knitting Book.
Tania Mallet in Vogue Knitting Book no. 60 (Jubilee edition), 1962. Image: Etsy.
The earliest patterns I’ve found featuring Mallet are by French and Italian designers—Jacques Heim and Simonetta:
Vogue 1258 by Jacques Heim (1963) Image: Pinterest.Vogue 1265 by Simonetta (1963) Image: eBay.
Later patterns are by London designers like Ronald Paterson and Jo Mattli:
Vogue 1391 by Ronald Paterson (1964) Image: Vintage Pattern Wiki.Vogue 1407 by Jo Mattli (1964) Image: Etsy.Vogue 1661 by Jo Mattli (ca. 1967) Image: Etsy.
Tania Mallet wears Vogue 1693 by Federico Forquet (with Vogue 1758 by Ronald Paterson and Vogue 7158). Sekers Fabrics advertisement, 1967.
Full marks for hats and coiffure, don’t you think?
Tania Mallet in Pucci on the cover of British Vogue, July 1961. Photo: Eugene Vernier. Image: Vogue UK.Tania Mallet in Pierre Cardin on the cover of Jardin des Modes, March 1962. Photo: Harry Meerson. Image: Jardin des Modes Covers.Tania Mallet on the cover of British Vogue, July 1962. Photo: Henry Clarke. Image: eBay.
Celia Hammond in Paco Rabanne. British Vogue, May 1966. Photo: David Bailey. Image: Vogue UK.
Born in Indonesia, Celia Hammond was discovered by Norman Parkinson in the early 1960s and went on to build a career as a top model in Paris and Swinging London.
British Vogue, June 1967. Photo: David Bailey. Image: Vogue UK.
Hammond may be seen on many designer patterns from Vogue and Butterick from the mid-1960s, always by British designers.
Here she models an LBD with dropped waist and bow-trimmed overblouse by Michael of London (Michael Donéllan):
Vogue 1330 by Michael (1964) Image: The Blue Gardenia.
Hammond modelled for patterns by a few British designers licensed to Butterick’s new Young Designers line, including the first Mary Quant patterns. Here she poses in a Quant dress, Butterick 3288, on a Butterick catalogue cover shot by Terence Donovan:
Butterick 3288 by Mary Quant; Butterick catalogue, October 1964. Photo: Terence Donovan. Image: eBay.
Jean Muir designed this button-trimmed, mustard-yellow dress for her early label, Jane & Jane:
Butterick 4153 by Jean Muir (ca. 1965) Image: Vintage Patterns Wiki.
Hammond also appears on this popular Jean Muir dress pattern, Butterick 4577:
Butterick 4577 by Jean Muir (ca. 1967) Image: Etsy.
Here she models a suede-trimmed ensemble by Jo Mattli:
Vogue 1664 by Jo Mattli (1966) Image: Vintage Patterns Wiki.
This evening dress from Belinda Bellville has a shaped bodice and handy pockets:
Vogue 1680 by Belinda Bellville (1966) Image: Vintage Patterns Wiki.
By Ronald Paterson, this three-piece ensemble with cutaway jacket is chic in white matelassé with matching buttons:
Vogue 1685 by Ronald Paterson (1967) Image: Vintage Patterns Wiki.
Richard Dormer photographed Hammond in these two Belinda Bellville designs. Vogue 1795 is an elegant, black-and-white day ensemble, while Vogue 1828 is a short evening dress with tiered, scalloped, bias overskirt:
Vogue 1795 by Belinda Bellville (1967) Image: Vintage Patterns Wiki.Vogue 1828 by Belinda Bellville (1967) Image: Vintage Patterns Wiki.
Here Hammond models another dress by Michael Donéllan, its blouson bodice slashed in back to reveal an attached camisole:
Vogue 1861 by Michael of London (1967) Image: Vintage Patterns Wiki.
Hammond retired from modelling to devote herself full-time to her work for animal welfare; she remains active for this cause as the founder of the Celia Hammond Animal Trust.
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