Tag: vintage
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Vintage Vogue Search
Vogue Patterns doesn’t have an archive of their old patterns, so the company is calling on the sewing public to lend patterns from their collections for reissue in the Vintage Vogue line. Reissued Forties and Fifties patterns have done best with customers, but they’re interested in patterns from all periods. The only exception is designer…
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Beverly Johnson
It’s almost forty years since Beverly Johnson (b. 1952) became the first Black woman to appear on the cover of American Vogue, in 1974. (Donyale Luna had appeared on the cover of British Vogue in 1966.) One of the decade’s most successful models, Johnson had moved to New York City to pursue modelling after losing her…
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