If you follow this link, you can download this pattern for John Galliano’s Pirate Jacket from his 2001 collection. The site also has a gallery of examples that sewers have made (I really like this green one.) The SHOWstudio site is also some great background on the jacket and its place in his collection. Natually I had to download a [...]
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My husband gave me an Apple iTouch for Christmas, and its wicked cool; basically its an iPhone with Internet connectivity but no phone function. The iTunes App Store has hundreds of free apps, and fashion designers are starting to upload free iTouch apps that showcase their latest collections. Both Chanel and Ralph Lauren are available, and Style.com has a condensed version of their [...] Today I spent the afternoon with Ann at the Gorgeous Fabrics Studio; we had wonderful time together. Ann worked on a muslin for Burda 3477 (a pattern with a really great draft BTW that is obvious even in a flat pattern stage) that I helped her fit, and she helped me figure out how to make the pintucks for [...] The fashion scrutiny of Michelle Obama has begun, and I hope she stays as on-track as she did yesterday during the Obama’s meeting at the White House. Michelle’s dress appears to be based on the same sloper as the blue Maria Pinto design she wore to the convention. This version has a different neckline, bodice (set [...] As you can see from the pattern pieces; this is a pretty interesting design! The instructions that come with this pattern basically stink like a monkey and I don’t believe for a minute they actually show how Rucci would make a dress like this, although I do think he would make it entirely on a regular sewing machine as the instructions imply. The [...] Vogue has just released another Ralph Rucci pattern, and after a summer sewing hiatus I’m in the mood to tackle a challenge. Rucci is kind of the Frank Lloyd Wright of fashion – his clothes are pretty much meant to be worn as deisgned and styled, without too much deviation from the original. It seems the consensus on [...] Like the rest of the Divas, I’m always on the lookout for new pattern companies that offer a fresh and different perspective from the Big 4. Etsy is one of my favorite sites for handmade items and recently I found Spiderlily Patterns. Both of my almost-teenage-daughters love the knit top on the right (I just bought this pattern so you’ll see it [...] 125 years ago today, in a small town in rural France, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was born to unmarried peasants. Her mother died when she was 12, and her vagabond father was unable to support his five children. Gabrielle was sent with her sister to an orphanage, where she larned to sew. Eventually, around 1910, when she was in [...] The Boston Globe ran a story today in the Business section about a sucessful class action lawsuit against Federated Department Stores and high end brands such as Chanel, Dior, Calvin Klein, etc. Evidently, Federated and major cosmetics companies violated anti-trust laws by colluding on promotions (among other things) and this amounted to price-fixing.
End result? [...] TLo over on Project RunGay did a post recently about Ralph Lauren’s design for the US Olympic Team. Just my opinion here, but how many ways can you spell b-o-r-i-n-g?
Honestly, those outfits made elite athletes look like trust fund schmoes straight from the Ryder Cup circa 1930. Ascots? Striped rep ties? Blazers? With that dopey crest on the front? White golf caps? In [...] |
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