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Shoes
How Salvatore Ferragamo’s ballet flat, the 1954 design Audrey Hepburn wore, is made by hand near Florence and reworked under Maximilian Davis.
Vintage
What a wiggle dress is, how to tell it from a sheath, and who wears it well, from Joan Holloway in Mad Men to Queen Letizia and Queen Maxima.
Vintage
How a vintage fur coat is made, from matching the pelts to the hand-stitched lining, with photographs of a coat opened up to show the seams inside.
Vintage
I found a pair of new but vintage Levi’s in Italy the same week a 19th-century pair sold for $87,000. Why vintage Levi’s hold their value.
Vintage
Marilyn Monroe’s style, from the white halter dress and red lipstick to denim and fur stoles, and the troubled life behind the beauty.
Vintage
Jackie Kennedy, Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn: how each one set the fashion of her time, and what each of them wore.
Vintage
The case for retro swimwear: why a vintage-style one-piece beats the string bikini, with Marilyn Monroe in a white halter suit in 1956.
