Tag: Vogue Patterns
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Iman
Iman (b. 1955) turns sixty today. Born Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid in Mogadishu, Somalia, she and her family fled to Kenya after the 1969 military coup, where she was discovered while a student in Nairobi by photographer Peter Beard. She soon became the first African supermodel, later founding Iman Cosmetics. (For more on Iman’s early career,…
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Pan Am Games 2015, Vintage Pattern Edition: Cycling
This week Iām looking at vintage patterns showing sports of the Pan Am Games. (See the first post here.) Today: a pattern for cycling. Cycling. This cycling illustration graced the cover of the summer 1938 issue of Vogue Pattern Book: The pattern is Vogue 8014, a sport or evening frock, bolero, and calot (hat) in…
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