European polish. American ease. Adrienne Vittadini built a fashion career of knitwear as a wardrobe.
Celebrating her on her birthday.
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American fashion history is bigger than runways and designer labels. Ely & Walker sits in that older world of fabric, clothing, retail. Somehow, that story leads to the Bush family tree.

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Guy Bourdin rarely made the shoe the most obvious part of the advertisement. 
Celebrating Guy Bourdin on his birthday.
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Bonnie Cashin believed that function could be part of the beauty. 
Celebrating Bonnie Cashin on her birthday.
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Before Nino Cerruti became a designer, he inherited his family’s woolen mill at only twenty years old.
Celebrating Nino Cerruti on his birthday.
#NinoCerruti #Cerruti #BOTD #ItalianFashion #MenswearHistory #Tailoring #TextileHistory #Biella  #WoolTextiles #FashionHistory #FashionConservatory

Before social media could turn a look into a trend overnight, Hollywood did it through the silver screen.

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Stephen Burrows brought movement, color, and the energy of 70s New York to American fashion.
He showed American fashion had its own rhythm.

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Few designers created a world as Laura Ashley did.
A romantic vision of life far removed from the modern world.
Born on this day in 1925.

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