Great picks! I love a lot of the same ones. That last one is just crazy. What in the WORLD was he thinking?
I have to agree, great picks. Not sure what Michael Kors is smoking, but I have to guess that he would have issues with this if it were on the "project runway"! LOL!
I'm with you on that Michael Kors! I got my issue of Vogue patterns in the mail the other day and could not believe ANYONE (well, maybe Paris or Brittany) would wear that . . that . . . dress! Holy Mother of Christ, even if you have the best boodie in town, I don't think the average person would want to highlight in that fashion.
I love V1039. I am going to have pick that one up. As far as Michael, all I can say is Michael Michael, Michael!
Thanx Erica, this great selection makes my head spin. Excellent open letter, I'm 100% "behind" you on that matter.
I love your take on these patterns. You made me look twice at some I had previously dismissed. Re the Kors design - what YOU said!
Great picks, I thought the Spring collection was awesome! So many interesting design details on, usually, mundane-type pieces! Totally agree with you on the Kors dress. I hate to criticize since I would never be able to be that good of a designer, but it looks like the dress is actully being sucked up into her ass?!?
I was so excited when I saw the new patterns up! This is their best collection in a long time. I was writing down pattern number after pattern number and then I got to the Michael Kors dress....
I am really liking V8480 jacket! I am thinking a bright color too! :o)
Dare I saw...apple green!!!
My picks from this group were 1025, 1026, 1027, 1036, 1037, 1040, 8474, 8476, and 8483. Guess I liked the new designs, huh?
I actually don't hate the Michael Kors design (although I will not be making it), but there was one I saw at Neiman Marcus in December that I liked better. It was a one shouldered asymmetrical knit sheath. Also ruched, but on the long side seam, onto a heavy metal zipper!! It was killer, and I wish they would have chosen that dress for a pattern instead.
please, send this letter to him. i'm serious. 
Lmao @ your letter to Michael! lol
Erica - I'll pay for the stamp. Send the letter. That dress is hovering between awful and horrific. (and my derriere doesn't talk to me, but if it did, it would definitely not tell me to create a "butt-bra" like that)
I'm really liking the Badgley Mischka suit patterns also.
Comments about the Kors dress are too funny!
I believe the correct way to respond to the Kors dress is to screech "that butt, is INSANE!"
Beautiful choices, and yes, ruched booty is wrong. It's just wrong.
Lordy,Lordy. I thought the same thing about that ruched madness. However, as a member of the no-rear contigent, it actually might flatter mine, since the whole point of ruching is to add or exaggerate fullness in an area. Even so... I wouldn't dare... not even in BLACK!
I'm mortified to admit that I liked the 'booty' dress. But then I've always marched to a different drummer. Please don't hate me!
I totally agree with your letter to Mr. Kors. Otherwise, those are some promising patterns. I look forward to seeing your fabulous creations!
Wonderful pattern selections. I especially like the cute jacket pattern, V1036. If made from denim, it would still be casual, but slightly upscale from a traditional denim jacket.
Excellent point about the Michael Kors pattern. I don’t know of any woman who would love to call attention to *that* part of her body.
Maybe he was having some weird disco-era flashback....
P.S. The other patterns are beautiful, by the way.
LOL regarding the Michael Kors. Those were my thoughts as well, when I saw the dress. I mean, seriously, who would ever wear this?
OMG @ that Michael Kors dress.
Nina would say "I think it looks cheap"
Erica, my thoughts exactly on that Michael Kors design! And correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought one of the Project Runway designers recently designed something with backside ruching and Michael Kors actually ripped on it!!!!!
I love the pant style of 1040. I am feeling the slim cut. I'm also feeling the shorts of 1035 but not sure if I'm bold enough to rock them.
Make that a petition and I'll be your first signature.
hahaha, your letter to Kors was great and right on it!!!
1040 and 1037 are great suits! I can't wait to see you make some of these patterns.
Sad to say, he booted Milan and scolded Michael Knight for not ruching properly and not making it flattering on a woman. I think he should learn how to listen and take his own advice about ruching.
Love your letter to Michael Kors! I also love his designs (I'm wearing a Michael Kors designed sweater right now!), but that dress... come on! How could you even sit down in that thing?
I was thinking the same about the Micheal Kors dress. Ha ha...your letter cracks me up!
Nina would say it would never work in Elle magazine, and that no average woman really wants to draw that much attention to her backside. 
Great pattern picks though
Great picks, but nothing less should be expected from you! I totally agree with you on the Mickael Kor's model.
LOL!! Erica, I totally agree...what was he thinking? How can the every day woman feel "fab" with that?
BTW, I like your picks. You have great taste and a fantasticly classy blog!
Hahahaha. Laughed my head off at the Kors letter. Well, the model in his dress looks very bootilicious, so when I loose 30 pounds and can look like Bionce', I'll make this dress (like never?). Funny, funny. Thanks for the posts.
DEAD DEAD DEAD lol
i love the letter to micheal kors
I love some of your picks for spring, i am going to get my plan and carve out some time to do some spring sewing.
What was MK thinking? "No woman really likes her rear, so let's ... hide it. Let's cover it in ... yeah, ruching! That's it. Let's ruch her entire rear and no one will notice it because they'll be so busy admiring the splendor of my ... ruching." That doesn't require the fashion police, it requires the fashion police in the stylish white coats.
On V8480, I just ordered that as my one purchase at the Vogue sale - I'm doing it in denim because all my old denim jackets were trashed, but I can definitely see it in a color too.
Looking forward to seeing your renditions of some of these - you do some of the most consistently fabulous work on PR. Thanks for sharing it.
U and 1969 with these letters are hilarious. Seriously, the dress is not flattering, especially when you know the average woman has enough bumps of her own to now add ruching to the cellulitic equation (assuming there are no Spanx and in that case she shouldn't be in jersey anyway.)
1027 (dress), 1035 (high waist jeans), 1039 (tunic) are the hotness!
lol at the Letter to MK. And I agree, although I love the dress, not every woman can or should wear it.
Seeing that ruched behind on that dress makes me wonder if Michael Kors is at all closely involved with the patterns he puts his name on for the home sewer. Jeez, talk about pattern drafting to a different drummer! Yucckkkk.
I'm so happy to have stumbled upon your blog, Erica. We need grounding in this crazy, sometimes wayward fashion world, and you're just the gal to help us. Thanks for your candid objectivity and sharing your LOVELY finished garments! Do your childred sew?
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