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              www.hodinkee.com
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| | | | | A vintage watch made modern. | |
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              unframed.lacma.org
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| | | | | The leather biker jacket has been an iconic symbol of rebellion since Marlon Brando first roared into town in The Wild One (1953). Greasers wore it throughout the 1950s-60s before it was adopted by the punk and heavy metal subcultures in the 1970s, with few bands more strongly associated with the black leather jacket than New York's punk pioneers, the Ramones. | |
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              blog.pattern-vault.com
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| | | | | As part of its current exhibition, Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is sharing a pattern for a one-seam coat designed by Patrick Kelly in 1984. (See my post on Patrick Kelly's Vogue patterns here.) After Kelly moved to Paris in 1979, he worked as a costume designer for Le Palace... | |
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              freshfrippery.com
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| | | Years ago I made a black 1660s dress but wanted a more colorful one. I finally got my excuse to make one when my local costume guild decided to put on an event called "DuMasquerade," a dinner event celebrating the works of Alexander Dumas. I made a dress out of purple taffeta and wore a... | ||