Vogue Couturier Design
Vintage Sewing Patterns
International couture, translated into pattern.
Discover Patterned’s curated collection of original Vogue Couturier Design sewing patterns — exceptional pieces of fashion history bringing the work of celebrated international designers into the hands of the home dressmaker.
From the distinctive Italian design of Pucci, Fabiani and Galitzine to the refined work of Pertegaz, Sybil Connolly, Jean Muir and others, Vogue Couturier Design captured an extraordinary range of twentieth-century fashion beyond the Paris couture houses.
Every pattern in the Patterned collection is an authentic vintage original. Each is individually checked, with its size, completeness and condition clearly documented.
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Explore original Vogue Couturier Design patterns from across the mid-twentieth century, including dresses, eveningwear, suits, coats, tailoring, separates and accessories by celebrated international designers.
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The Vogue Couturier Design Story
Vogue’s Couturier line dates to the 1930s, when it emerged as one of the company’s most prestigious pattern ranges.
The earliest Couturier patterns did not identify an individual designer. As the series evolved, Vogue Couturier Design became a showcase for leading designers working beyond the Paris fashion houses represented by Vogue Paris Original.
Italian, Spanish, British, Irish and other international designers brought their own distinct approaches to silhouette, tailoring and construction to the series, creating an unusually rich record of twentieth-century fashion in pattern form.
Today, surviving Vogue Couturier Design patterns offer makers and collectors an original connection to the designers, techniques and ideas that shaped international fashion.
An International View of Couture
Where Vogue Paris Original celebrated the great fashion houses of Paris, Vogue Couturier Design looked further afield.
Designers such as Emilio Pucci, Fabiani, Galitzine, Pertegaz, Sybil Connolly, Jo Mattli and Jean Muir brought dramatically different fashion identities to the series — from precise tailoring and sculptural eveningwear to bold colour, modern separates and increasingly relaxed silhouettes.
Together, the patterns reveal how widely couture influence travelled — and how Vogue translated those ideas for skilled dressmakers around the world.
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Vogue Couturier Design 2035 – Fabiani
Misses' Coat
Size 8 Bust 31½ Waist 23 Hip 33½
ca. 1968
Full tent coat has a pointed bias-shaped collar on a bias band, pockets in the side seams and yoke and full-length sleeves cut in one. Topstitch trim.
Printed pattern. Unused, Factory Folded & Complete. Original Vogue Couturier sew-in label included.
Envelope has light age-related wear and creasing, with a small notch along the upper edge. Please refer to the photographs for condition.