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Award-winning American actress Gwyneth Paltrow was born #OnThisDay in 1972. She wore this Mary Zophres designed teal wool sweater and grey wool tweed skirt as flight attendant Donna Jensen in View from the Top (2003). Sold by @JuliensAuctions. #film #costume
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Canadian artist and fashion designer Jason Wu was born #OnThisDay in 1982. He designed this navy and floral-patterned jacquard strapless evening gown that was worn by First Lady Michelle Obama to a state dinner during the 2016 Canada State Visit. @ObamaFoundation #fashionhistory
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French jewellery designer Suzanne Belperron was born #OnThisDay in 1900. Diana Vreeland owned this c. 1934 Belperron rock crystal and diamond 'Facetté' cuff bracelet. She was photographed wearing it at the El Morocco nightclub in New York in 1938. @ChristiesInc #jewellery #design
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Singer and actress Dame Olivia Newton-John was born #OnThisDay in 1948. She wore this Fleur Thiemeyer designed floral embellished apricot silk chiffon gown and beaded spandex bodysuit to attend the 50th Annual Academy Awards in 1978. Sold by @JuliensAuctions. #fashionhistory
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Costume designer Colleen Atwood was born #OnThisDay in 1948. She designed this faded dark green frock coat, embroidered satin waistcoat, and brown silk trousers for Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). @KerryTaylorAuct #costume
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Audrey Hepburn married Mel Ferrer in Switzerland #OnThisDay in 1954. Hepburn wore a Pierre Balmain tea-length gown of white organdie with a satin sash, that she accessorized with gloves and a floral crown. The dress was exhibited in Intimate Audrey. #fashionhistory #audreyhepburn
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American fashion designer Patrick Kelly was born #OnThisDay in 1954. He designed this stretch velour leopard print dress with a multi-tie bodice that was modelled by Iman on the Fall 1989 Patrick Kelly catwalk as a one-shouldered dress. Sold by @ShrimptonCoutur. #fashionhistory
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French model and actress Marie-Hélène Arnaud was born #OnThisDay in 1934. She was photographed by Henry Clarke for French Vogue in March 1958 modelling this Yves Saint Laurent for Dior S/S 1958 embroidered silk tulle "L'Eléphant Blanc" dress. @metmuseum collection #fashionhistory
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French painter and model Suzanne Valadon was born #OnThisDay in 1865. She was painted by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 1885 wearing a fashionable purple dress in a similar style to this silk bustle example from @AlbanyInstitute. Painting @BellasArtesAR collection. #fashionhistory
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German-French actress Romy Schneider was born #OnThisDay in 1938. She wore this Gerdago designed cream and gold embroidered gown with sheer lace sleeves as Empress Elisabeth of Austria when she is crowned Queen of Hungary in Sissi: The Young Empress (1956). #film #costume
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American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress Joan Jett was born #OnThisDay in 1958. She wore this Audrey Carter cropped jacket with multi-coloured sequin embellishments when David Bowie visited her backstage in New York in 1989. Sold by @JuliensAuctions. #fashionhistory
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Japanese-born British fashion designer Gina Fratini was born #OnThisDay in 1931. She designed this silk organza floor-length dress printed with a pastel design of flowers, birds, hands and faces, and embellished with feathers, for Neiman Marcus. @ShrimptonCoutur #fashionhistory
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Victoria Haddock retweeted
This feels like a quietly appropriate approach to autumn dressing, a loose early #1880s ‘at home’ kind of gown in reddy brown challis, a lightweight blend of wool & silk. The Watteau pleat at the back & panels at the front are embroidered with pale forget-me-nots #newcanaanmuseum
ALT Partial view of the back of a reddish brown loose gown of challis. It has a high collar, slightly puffed sleeves at the shoulder and a broad pleat centre back embroidered with small pale flowers
ALT Full length view of the red brown early 1880s at home gown. Long sleeved, with high collar. The floral embroidery continues down centre panels and around the collar, cuffs and pockets
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American TV host and actress Ricki Lake was born #OnThisDay in 1968. Lake wore this Van Smith pink satin dress with a pattern of black roaches as Tracy Turnblad in John Waters' Hairspray (1988). The dress was displayed in the John Waters: Pope of Trash exhibition. #film #costume
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John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette #OnThisDay in 1996 in a private ceremony on Cumberland Island. The bride wore a Narciso Rodriguez slip dress made from pearl-while silk crêpe accessorized with a silk tulle veil, gloves, and Manolo Blahnik sandals. #fashionhistory
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Award-winning Italian actress Sophia Loren was born #OnThisDay in 1934. She wore this Pierre Balmain black silk velvet dress as heiress Epifania Parerga in the opening scene of The Millionairess (1960). Sold by The Fashion Auctioneer. #film #costume
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American fashion designer James Galanos was born #OnThisDay in 1924. He designed this Galanos couture for Nan Duskin black polka dot net lace cocktail dress with rhinestone straps in A/W 1967. Lauren Hutton modelled it in the pages of Vogue. Sold by @TimelessVixen #fashionhistory
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Model and actress Dame Lesley Lawson, better known as #Twiggy, was born #OnThisDay in 1949. She wore this Shirley Russell designed "Poor Little Pierrette" costume in her role as Polly Browne in The Boyfriend (1971). Her performance won her two Golden Globe Awards. #film #costume
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Dame Zandra Rhodes was born #OnThisDay in 1940. She designed this ball gown consisting of a black quilted satin bodice, a gold pleated polyamide polyester and lamé skirt and 'panniers' over black printed silk tulle for her A/W 1981 Renaissance Collection. @V_and_A #fashionhistory
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My dream dress for celebrating another year around the sun. This embroidered cream and pink silk satin evening gown was designed by Rahvis in 1952. @LDN_Museum collection. #fashionhistory #birthday
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