Tag: designers

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, all! We have a super festive cover for you this week! We are hoping that Santa (or your partner, kids, friend, or Zappos) brought you some really fabulous shoes for Christmas! (or Solstice, Channukah, or Kwanza, or even just because you wanted them!) Enjoy your time off, because the FIT Library is closed from…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, everybody! This week’s magazine is an oldie but a goodie! Before Amy Shumer, Tina Fey,  or Margaret Cho, before Bust, and “Sex and the City”, there was Helen Gurley Brown, who was single and loved it.  She wasn’t the only reason that single womanhood switched from meaning “pitied” to meaning “fabulous”, but she sure…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, all! This week’s Magazine of the Week is really a pattern catalog: Marfy is a pre-drawn clothing patterns company.  Think Vogue or Burda.  The company was established in 1966, and specializes in high-style womenswear.  It also claims to be the first pattern company in Italy to sell patterns for special occasion wear. When we…