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The Birth of Ready-to-Wear: How Clothing Became an Industry

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For a long time, dressing meant having one’s clothes made by a tailor or a dressmaker, or making them oneself. In the 19th century, industrialization gradually disrupted this model. The sewing machine, mass production, size standardization, department stores, and mail-order catalogs transformed how clothes were made and purchased. Ready-to-wear wasContinue Reading

A collaboration with six contemporary African artists

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As we celebrate Vlisco’s 180th anniversary, we mark this historic milestone with a collaboration bringing together six contemporary West African artists to reimagine some of our most iconic patterns through new, multidisciplinary works. For this commemorative project, we invited each artist to select the Vlisco pattern that resonated most deeplyContinue Reading