Tag: fashion history
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Vogue Patterns 125
A digital exhibition to celebrate Vogue Patterns’ 125th anniversary in 2024. View the exhibit With thanks to Valerie Steele for her encouragement. Founded in 2011, PatternVault is an independent blog documenting the rich history of home sewing, with a focus on the intersections between high fashion and the commercial pattern industry. Photo: Irving Penn PatternVault…
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Pucci (Paper) Patterns
I had the pleasure of writing about Emilio Pucci’s licensed commercial sewing patterns for Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America. “Pucci (Paper) Patterns, 1956–73” is online now and will appear in the next print issue of Dress, vol. 48, no. 1, in Spring 2022. Update (May ’22): Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan,…
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Maison McCall
I had the pleasure of writing about McCall’s interwar couture patterns for the Heritage issue of Selvedge Magazine. Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan, “Maison McCall: Revisiting the patterns of interwar couture,” Selvedge 95 (July-August 2020), 44–46. With thanks to Cécile Lambert and Elizabeth Randolph, Collections Manager of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of…
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From Colony to Incubator
I wrote about Toronto fashion history since 1867 for FORWARD Magazine, a new glossy edited by Ugyen Wangmo. For this Canada 150 sesquicentennial feature, I sourced vintage and archival images from the 19th and 20th centuries — in the process rediscovering some forgotten Karsh portraits of the couturière Madame Martha. Even in the time of…
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Remembering Hervé Léger
I wrote a brief tribute to Hervé Léger, creator of the bandage dress, for FASHION magazine. Published monthly by St. Joseph Media, FASHION (est. 1977) is one of Canada’s leading glossies. FASHION | read article
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PatternVault
The PatternVault blog provides rich, illustrated posts on the history of designer fashion through DIY culture. “Pattern Vault breaks the mold again and again.” – Designer Marcy Tilton Key posts on: • Vogue patterns for Givenchy designs by Alexander McQueen and John Galliano • Rare commercial patterns for designs by Madeleine Vionnet, Yves Saint Laurent,…
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