"as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours. In 1964, with money saved from the paraffin business and from his father mortgaging his own home, Banks opened the boutique Clobber in London, which carried his own designs along with other designers' work. It proved such a success that in 1969, he launched his own fashion label. In 1975 he opened the first standalone Jeff Banks shop in London, as well as retail outlets in twenty-two department stores, including Harrods and Harvey Nichols. In the late 1970s, he co-launched the fashion chain"
"Jeff Banks Jeff Banks PPCSD (born Jeffrey Tatham-Banks, 17 March 1943) is a Welsh designer of men's and women's clothing, jewellery, and home furnishings. Born in Ebbw Vale, Wales, Banks co-founded the fashion chain Warehouse in the late 1970s. He later created and presented the television programme ""The Clothes Show"", broadcast on BBC One from 1986 to 2000. Banks was born in the Monmouthshire valleys of South Wales, at Ebbw Vale. His sheet metal worker father left his mother when Banks was eight, and she consequently decided to move to London, England. He was offered a scholarship to independent public"
"deal to design clothes for the UK chain Sainsbury's. The installation of Jeff Banks stores within Sainsbury's outlets proved successful, but a dispute led to the early termination of his contract. The resulting lawsuit was resolved with Sainsbury's agreeing to pay a reported settlement of £1 million, plus a box of truffles every week. Banks has continued to work as a designer with designs for the Guide Association, the England football team, and recently for London's 2012 Olympics bid, which were modelled at the launch by Sir Bobby Charlton, Sir Steve Redgrave and Denise Lewis. Banks continues to be heavily"
"of their racing team ""CatfordCC Equipe/Banks"", an amateur under-23 squad having British National 'Elite' team status. Jeff Banks Jeff Banks PPCSD (born Jeffrey Tatham-Banks, 17 March 1943) is a Welsh designer of men's and women's clothing, jewellery, and home furnishings. Born in Ebbw Vale, Wales, Banks co-founded the fashion chain Warehouse in the late 1970s. He later created and presented the television programme ""The Clothes Show"", broadcast on BBC One from 1986 to 2000. Banks was born in the Monmouthshire valleys of South Wales, at Ebbw Vale. His sheet metal worker father left his mother when Banks was eight, and"
"buyers asking to purchase them. After leaving Calvin Klein, Banks launched his own-name label in New York City in 1977, according to his official website, although some sources state 1978. By 1996, suits, shirts, eyewear and accessories from ""Jeffrey Banks Ltd."" and ""Jeffrey Banks International"" were being sold worldwide with sales of about $20 million. As an author, Jeffrey Banks has co-authored three fashion books with Doria de la Chapelle for Rizzoli, including a 2007 book on tartan, and a 2011 book on the preppy style. The second book led to Banks and de la Chapelle collaborating with Erica Lennard"
"Japanese designer Kenzo Takada. The success of this early collaboration led to a move into fashion retailing, with the first store opening below the Chelsea hair salon in the early 1970s and the first large-scale retail outlet opening on Sloane Street in 1979. Joseph stores championed the work of many up-and-coming designers, including Margaret Howell, Katharine Hamnett, John Galliano and Azzedine Alaïa. Own brand clothing began with distinctive knitwear (Joseph Tricot) and went on to include women’s clothing, perfume, homewares (Joseph Pour La Maison), and Joe's restaurants. Joseph has been the recipient of a number of British Fashion Awards, including"
"Browns (fashion boutique) Browns is a fashion boutique based in London, England. It was founded by Joan Burstein and husband Sidney in 1970. The flagship store is on London's South Molton Street. In 2015, Browns was acquired by London online fashion company Farfetch. Joan Burstein founded Browns with her late husband, Sidney, in 1970. Initially a small boutique housed on the ground floor at 27 South Molton Street, Browns grew rapidly expanding through five connecting Georgian townhouses. Their daughter Caroline Burstein founded Molton Brown before joining Browns as creative director in 1993. Their son Simon Burstein became CEO. Known for"
"the venture. The shop opened in early 1966. By the spring of 1966, the shop had achieved worldwide renown, including a feature in an edition of Time Magazine ""LONDON the Swinging City"". They paved the way for many of the designer boutiques that followed, such as Mr. Freedom, Alkasura, Let It Rock, and later the more ambitious enterprises of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood and Paul Smith. Over the next eight years the shop clothed London’s fashionable young men and women, including many major rock performers. A constant stream of people visited the shop, especially on Saturdays during the weekly"
"in honour of this donation in November of that year, with Sir David Attenborough officially opening the building. George Davies (retailer) George Davies (born 29 October 1941 in Crosby, Lancashire) is an English fashion designer and retailer. Davies headed Next from its creation in the 1980s, before moving on to start the fashion label 'George at Asda' in the 1990s. Leaving Asda in 2000 following their acquisition by Walmart, he launched the ""Per Una"" fashion collection at Marks & Spencer. In 2009, Davies launched his 4th brand (called GIVe) which saw 26 stores opening in selected towns and cities in"
"Jeffrey Banks Jeffrey Banks is a Coty Award winning fashion designer and author who has been described as a major black fashion maker. Banks worked as a design assistant to Ralph Lauren(1971–73) and Calvin Klein (1973–76). He has claimed credit for Klein's logo garments, stating that he had the logo from a press folder silkscreened onto the sleeve of a brown T-shirt as a present for Klein. The gift was assumed by Barry K. Schwartz to be part of the upcoming line, and similar shirts formed the uniform for the front-of-house staff at Klein's next catwalk show, leading to the"
"largest street style archives. Coggles Coggles is a designer fashion retailer for men and women. The company stocks over 400 brands which specialize in luxury clothing, accessories and footwear. Coggles was established in 1974 when the flagship store was opened in the UK in York by Victoria Bage. Bage supposedly named the store 'Coggles' after she discovered her husband was having an affair with his secretary, named Sarah Coggles. Bage immediately divorced her husband and decided to name the store Coggles as a permanent reminder of his infidelity. When the store first opened it served coffee, played music and sold"
"Apple Boutique The Apple Boutique was a retail store located in a building on the corner of Baker Street and Paddington Street, Marylebone, London. It opened on 7 December 1967 and closed on 31 July 1968. The shop was one of the first business ventures by The Beatles' fledgling Apple Corps. The concept of the shop was that everything in it was for sale. The aim, as described by Paul McCartney, was to create ""a beautiful place where beautiful people can buy beautiful things"". In practice, the stock was overwhelmingly fashion garments and accessories. John Lennon vetoed the use of"
"communicated the finding on a map-based graphic. It led to the pump being locked and the reduction in cases of cholera was rapid. In 1934, Amy Ashwood Garvey and Sam Manning opened the Florence Mills Social Club, a jazz club that became a gathering place for supporters of Pan-Africanism, at number 50. The first boutique, His Clothes, was opened by John Stephen in 1957 after his shop in Beak Street burned down and was followed by I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet, Gear, Lady Jane, Mates, Ravel, and others. Round the corner in Kingly Street, Tommy Roberts opened his gift shop"
"Mr Freedom (fashion) Mr Freedom was a clothing boutique in London which sold ""pop art"" fashion by a number of young designers commissioned by the owner Tommy Roberts and his partner Trevor Myles. Celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Elton John and Peter Sellers wore designs from the shop which was at 430 King's Road in Chelsea from 1969–70 and then at 20 Kensington Church Street in Kensington 1970-72. Mr Freedom was part of the counter-culture ""Swinging London"" scene around King's Road in 1960s' London. It followed the cult success of Roberts' earlier boutique, Kleptomania, which he had opened in 1965."
"brand was part of the Matalan stable. Jeffrey Rogers has continued to work in fashion design, establishing the Jeffrey & Paula label with his wife and working with retail operations such as Simply Be. Jeffrey Rogers Jeffrey Rogers established his eponymous company in the 1970s in Margaret Street, Soho, with a staff of three. Over time, his company grew to become a large international concern; by 1988 it had a turnover of £25 million and exported 15 per cent of production outside the UK. During his organisation's 1980s heyday, Rogers was described by Judy Rumbold in ""The Guardian"" as ""the"
"the Mr Fish shop had closed, and he took a job with Sulka in New York, a label famous for its silk foulard dressing gowns. In 1978, he returned to London to work for Jeremy Norman as greeter at the fashionable Embassy Club in Bond Street, the London equivalent of Studio 54. Mr Fish designs set fashion trends, the kipper tie being one unique example, the polo neck sweater look, which proved a major success in New York and London in the winter of 1967. Perhaps the most controversial of Fish's designs was the ""dress"" designed to be worn by"
"Albert Museum's 1960s fashion exhibition from 6 June 2006 - 25 February 2007. In April 2010, Miss Selfridge launched the Gossip Girl Collection in which they had worked with Eric Damon, the stylist of the show Gossip Girl, to create a line of 8 dresses based on the four main female characters. Miss Selfridge Miss Selfridge is a nationwide UK high street store which began as the young fashion section of Selfridges department store in London in 1966. Miss Selfridge got its name when Charles Clore, the owner of Selfridges at the time, saw a window display in the Bonwit"
"Montague Burton died, the Company was the largest multiple tailor in the world. Burton was the official suit supplier of the England national football team for the World Cup in 1966. In 1964, the Peter Robinson chain began what became a relaunch as Topshop. This was in response to the development of a new young fashion culture around Britain in the 1960s; Topshop became the company's home of young, modern, on-trend ladieswear, a role it continues to hold. The Topshop launch began with Topshop-branded departments within Peter Robinson stores in 1964, with the first standalone Topshop stores opened ten years"
"Jigsaw (clothing retailer) Jigsaw is a fashion clothing retailer with outlets in Britain, the United States and an independent licensee in Australia. The company is based on Mortlake Road in Kew, south west London. It turned over £88m in 2005. It has 56 stores across the UK (as of May 2013). Jigsaw's sister company ""Kew 159"", based in the same location and aimed at younger shoppers, closed in 2012 following heavy financial losses. The company was started in 1972 by John Robinson and Malcolm Webster, and is now owned by Robinson Webster (Holdings) Ltd. Robinson (born 1948), who grew up"
"Coggles Coggles is a designer fashion retailer for men and women. The company stocks over 400 brands which specialize in luxury clothing, accessories and footwear. Coggles was established in 1974 when the flagship store was opened in the UK in York by Victoria Bage. Bage supposedly named the store 'Coggles' after she discovered her husband was having an affair with his secretary, named Sarah Coggles. Bage immediately divorced her husband and decided to name the store Coggles as a permanent reminder of his infidelity. When the store first opened it served coffee, played music and sold fashion. Bage's son, Mark"
"Next plc Next (), styled as next, is a British multinational clothing, footwear and home products retailer headquartered in Enderby, Leicestershire. It has around 700 stores, of which 519 are in the United Kingdom, and over 200 across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Next is the largest clothing retailer by sales in the United Kingdom, having overtaken Marks & Spencer in early 2012 and 2014. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company was founded by Joseph Hepworth in Leeds in 1864 as a tailor under the name"
"Sex (boutique) Sex was a boutique run by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood at 430 King's Road, London between 1974 and 1976. It specialised in clothing that defined the look of the punk movement. From 1969 to 1970, No. 430 was the premises of ""Mr Freedom"". In October 1971, Malcolm McLaren and a friend from art school, Patrick Casey, opened a stall in the back of the ""Paradise Garage"" boutique at 430 King's Road in London's Chelsea district. On sale were items collected by McLaren over the previous year, including rock & roll records, magazines, clothing and memorabilia from the"
"Stirling Cooper Stirling Cooper was a London-based fashion wholesaler and retailer that, along with brands such as Biba, Quorum, Browns and Clobber, helped to redefine UK fashion in the late 1960s. Part of the Swinging London scene in the early years, and with a destination store on Wigmore Street that attracted rock stars such as Mick Jagger, it grew into a substantial wholesaler and retailer and was even more influential in the 1970s, when UK-wide concessions created accessible and affordable high fashion. Stirling Cooper was started by two London cab drivers Ronnie Stirling and Jeff Cooper in 1967. It was"
"the fashion boom of what ""Time"" called “swinging London”. Associated initially with such ""mod"" designs as Quant's mini-skirt, this soon embraced a range of essentially Bohemian styles. These included the military and Victorian fashions popularised by stars who frequented boutiques such as Granny Takes a Trip, the ""fusion of fashion, art and lifestyle"" opened by Nigel Waymouth in the King's Road, Chelsea in January 1966, and, by 1967, the hippie look largely imported from America (although, as noted, London stores such as Biba had, for some time, displayed dresses that drew on Pre-Raphaelite imagery). The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, whose"
"Simon and Caroline retained seats on the board. Browns includes Brownsfashion.com, Browns at 23-27 South Molton Street with Browns Focus at number 24, Browns at 160 Sloane Street and bridalwear stores Browns Bride, 12 Hinde Street and Vera Wang at Browns, 59 Brook Street. In October 2017, Browns East opened in East London Browns (fashion boutique) Browns is a fashion boutique based in London, England. It was founded by Joan Burstein and husband Sidney in 1970. The flagship store is on London's South Molton Street. In 2015, Browns was acquired by London online fashion company Farfetch. Joan Burstein founded Browns"
"of Lonsdale. In 1960, business commenced for the brand at 21 Beak St., Soho, London. Lonsdale became ingrained into 1960s popular fashion due to its location near Carnaby Street. Celebrities who publicly wore the brand included Paul McCartney, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and Tony Curtis. In 1979, mod revival icon Paul Weller visited the store and bought Lonsdale T-shirts to wear on a tour of Japan, which led to an increase in sales for the brand in both the UK and Asia. In the 1990s, Lonsdale expanded to new markets in Europe, and by 1998, the brand had expanded to"
"grand unveiling of the latest designs. The copies of Chanel suits created by the store attracted a loyal following among London socialites and working women alike. During the Profumo Affair trial, Christine Keeler wore a different Wallis outfit every day. From the late 1960s, the focus was on younger British designers – in keeping with Swinging London trends. Wallis had already attracted interest from foreign buyers and took a collection of clothing to the US at the request of American buyers in 1964. It comprised some 70 coats, suits and dresses. In 1969, Sylvia Ayton – formerly in partnership with"
"Jeffrey Rogers Jeffrey Rogers established his eponymous company in the 1970s in Margaret Street, Soho, with a staff of three. Over time, his company grew to become a large international concern; by 1988 it had a turnover of £25 million and exported 15 per cent of production outside the UK. During his organisation's 1980s heyday, Rogers was described by Judy Rumbold in ""The Guardian"" as ""the T-shirt king"", although his company was almost as ubiquitous for its knitwear, supplied to retailers such as TopShop, Miss Selfridge and John Lewis. Fashion journalist Brenda Polan described Rogers as: ""one of Britain's most"
"on ""Perry Ellis: an American original"", the first in-depth monograph on Banks's former friend and colleague, the designer Perry Ellis, published in 2013. Jeffrey Banks Jeffrey Banks is a Coty Award winning fashion designer and author who has been described as a major black fashion maker. Banks worked as a design assistant to Ralph Lauren(1971–73) and Calvin Klein (1973–76). He has claimed credit for Klein's logo garments, stating that he had the logo from a press folder silkscreened onto the sleeve of a brown T-shirt as a present for Klein. The gift was assumed by Barry K. Schwartz to be"
"and beyond. In 2013, the lead female character is called ""Lady Jane"" in the musical ""Carnaby Street"" by Carl Leighton-Pope, which opened at the Hackney Empire, London, and then toured nationally. Lady Jane (boutique) Lady Jane was the first women's fashion boutique on London's Carnaby Street. It was opened by Harry Fox and Henry Moss in April 1966 and was seen as a counterpart to Warren Gold's Lord John chain. The shop was one of the new wave of fashionable boutiques that were revitalising Carnaby Street which before the early 1960s had been a down-at-heel area of mixed shops. Lady"
"where he sold suits. He opened a shop on Wardour Street in Soho in 1964.A year later, he opened another shop in Soho, on Carnaby Street. Meanwhile, he founded the first unisex fashion company in the United Kingdom, Mates by Irvine Sellars. The company later became ""Britain’s second-biggest fashion chain,"" with 90 shops in 1981. That year, he sold it to a South African investor. Sellar founded Ford Sellar Morris, a property company listed on the London Stock Exchange. The company invested in shopping centres in the suburbs, for example in Stockton. Sellar borrowed £111 in 1989 and, because of"
"Ted Baker Ted Baker plc is a British luxury clothing retail company. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Ted Baker's founder and CEO, Ray Kelvin, started his first store in March 1988 in Glasgow, and opened further stores in Manchester, and Nottingham. In 1990 Ted Baker opened a store in Covent Garden (with additional stores in London's Soho, Nottingham and Leeds) and Kelvin bought the company outright from part-owners Goldberg and Sons. A new range, Ted Baker Woman, was launched in 1995. The company purchased its headquarters in London"
"months after buying the brand, to BMB Clothing Limited, a Leeds-based company whose business includes Jeff Banks and Suit Direct stores. The company was founded in 1963 by Arthur Benjamin Sugarman (1925–1987). He was Jewish, the son of a salesman, born in Brighton. He emigrated to the United States in 1946, via Canada, and changed his nationality to American. He married the daughter of a Californian clothes producer and later returned to Brighton, where he established a shirt factory at 21 Bedford Square in 1963. Sugarman had realised that early 1960s London-based modern jazz fans were eagerly buying the Oxford-cloth"