Tag: sewing
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YSL Wedding Dress (or, Adventures in Tartan)
Last year I made my own wedding dress using an Yves Saint Laurent pattern. Vogue Patterns magazine recently published a photo: (Hat by Emilliner by Emily Clark. Read her fabulous millinery blog here.) A similar shot won our photographer Jon Thorpe an ISPWP award for Best Bridal Party Portrait. (Congrats, Jon!) Our wedding was also…
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John Galliano for Givenchy: Vogue Patterns
John Galliano’s designs for Givenchy were the first to alert me to the fact that Vogue designer patterns can replicate high fashion designs. When I saw this dress—on Shalom Harlow on the runway and later on Linda Evangelista in Vogue— and this Vogue Paris Original in my mother’s subscription copy of Vogue Patterns I felt…
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