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...Martha Stewart proudly carries her Birkin on her way to court...
...Martha Stewart has made a career out of trumpeting the joys of long-abandoned homemaking skills like gathering eggs from Araucana chickens you've raised yourself. So it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to learn that she made her own wedding dress. The embroidered Swiss organdy gown and matching hat she wore to her 1961 nuptials were the culmination of years of practice. "I learned to sew as a little girl," Stewart says. "My mother made our clothes--every year we had a new Easter coat--and taught me the basics of sewing at a young...
...long love of the craft has led her to her latest venture, a partnership between Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and the sewing machine company SVP Worldwide, which Stewart announced on April 3 in New York City. Stewart will endorse SVP's Singer, Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff lines of sewing machines--the first time she has endorsed a product without the Martha brand. Why is she flogging another company's goods? "I learned to sew on a Singer machine," she says, adding that she still has a 1901 Singer in working condition. And this was a rare moment when Stewart didn...
...have learned at their mother's foot pedal, they are looking for guidance. Stewart launched Blueprint magazine last year for them. The women's lifestyle magazine will publish six issues in 2007, up from two in 2006, and reaches a total audience of 250,000. While the flagship Martha Stewart Living magazine features sewing projects for the home, Blueprint is targeted at a younger audience. Fashion editor Katie Hatch's frequently innovative projects, from a swirling microsuede skirt to lace appliqués on a plain, white button-down shirt, are featured in each issue. Stewart calls Hatch over and asks...
...MARTHA STEWART, about a camel ride she took in Kazakhstan before watching the launch of a Russian rocket ship carrying her friend, billionaire Charles Simonyi, and two cosmonauts into orbit on a 13-day journey to the International Space Station. For Simonyi's trip, Stewart packed meals that included quail roasted in Madiran wine, duck breast confit with capers and shredded chicken parmentier...