"Gerald McCann (fashion designer) Gerald McCann (born 1931) is a British fashion designer who was considered among the leading lights of the Swinging London fashion scene, alongside names such as Mary Quant, subsequently moving to the United States to continue his career. After early commercial success designing for other brands, McCann established his own label in 1963. He attracted the attention of influential US fashion buyers in the mid 1960s and soon began designing for the American market, as well as for key British fashion retailers targeting the youth market. He moved to the US to work on New York's"
"the corner of Markham Square and King's Road in Chelsea, London called ""Bazaar"", above ""Alexander's"", a basement restaurant run by Plunket Green. In 1957, they opened the second branch of ""Bazaar"", which was designed by Terence Conran. Successful designs from this early period included small white plastic collars to brighten up sweaters and dresses, bright stockings in colours matched to her knitwear, men's cardigans made long enough to be worn as dresses, and a pair of ""mad"" lounging pyjamas made by Quant herself which were featured in ""Harper's Bazaar"" and purchased by an American manufacturer to copy. Following this, Quant"
"boutique and through London department stores such as Dickins & Jones. Another of Rayner's designs, a pale pink strapless dress, is included in the Victoria and Albert Museum's fashion collection, and was featured on the poster for their major Wedding Dress exhibition in 2014. Catherine Rayner (designer) Catherine Rayner was a British fashion designer specialising in wedding dresses. Her designs in 1999 were admired for ""classic elegance and romantic flair"" and noted for their very fitted bodices and flattering cuts. One of her gowns, in bead-embroidered satin, was chosen by Sandra Boler, the editor of ""Brides"" magazine, along with shoes"
"in his 2013 collection at London Fashion Week. Nasir Mazhar Nasir Mazhar is a British fashion designer. He is best recognised for his inventive approaches to sports caps and headwear. Lady Gaga has worn a few of Nasir Mazhar's hats. Mazhar was born in East London and brought up in Leytonstone, London, to Turkish Cypriot parents. Once he left school Mazhar began an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. While working in a Brick Lane salon, he started designing headpieces and soon progressed to hats. He recently created the hats for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony (the clubbing scene), and launched"
"Rupert Lycett Green Rupert William Lycett Green (born 24 October 1938) is a British fashion designer known for his contribution to 1960s male fashion through his tailor's shop/boutique Blades in London. Lycett Green was born in England, the son of Commander David Cecil Lycett Green RN and Angela Courage (who later married Ralph Beckett, 3rd Baron Grimthorpe). His grandfather is Sir Edward Lycett Green, 2nd Baronet, and his great-grandfather is Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Eton College. In 1962, Lycett Green opened his shop Blades in Dover Street, London, with ""high tailoring standards but a young"
"with enemies. All in all, he was a columnist's dream."" Rupert Lycett Green Rupert William Lycett Green (born 24 October 1938) is a British fashion designer known for his contribution to 1960s male fashion through his tailor's shop/boutique Blades in London. Lycett Green was born in England, the son of Commander David Cecil Lycett Green RN and Angela Courage (who later married Ralph Beckett, 3rd Baron Grimthorpe). His grandfather is Sir Edward Lycett Green, 2nd Baronet, and his great-grandfather is Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Eton College. In 1962, Lycett Green opened his shop Blades in"
"the University of the Arts London, of which the London College of Fashion is a part. In 2006, Bennett was awarded an OBE for services to the fashion industry in the New Year Honours list. Linda Bennett Linda Kristin Bennett OBE (born 8 September 1962) is an English-Icelandic clothing designer and entrepreneur, best known for founding the fashion retailer L.K.Bennett. Born in London, Bennett is the daughter of a London-based fashion retail entrepreneur, and an Icelandic sculptor mother. She grew up in North West London, and was educated at Kingsbury Green Primary School, Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Elstree"
"from the London street markets and, through this, met up with Ashley Lloyd-Jennings, who shared similar tastes in fashion. They opened Hackett's first store on the King's Road in 1983. Hackett claims that he was at least partly responsible for starting the much-mocked red trousers trend in London, telling Esquire “We used to sell red trousers and lots of the Sloane types used to come in and buy them, and it just spread from there,” but insisted “I’d never wear them though.” The Hackett brand grew quickly and Jeremy Hackett has also become well known as an authority on men's"
"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"
"Linda Bennett Linda Kristin Bennett OBE (born 8 September 1962) is an English-Icelandic clothing designer and entrepreneur, best known for founding the fashion retailer L.K.Bennett. Born in London, Bennett is the daughter of a London-based fashion retail entrepreneur, and an Icelandic sculptor mother. She grew up in North West London, and was educated at Kingsbury Green Primary School, Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Elstree and Reading University, where she read Land Management. She then trained as a cordwainer at Hackney's Cordwainers College (now part of the London College of Fashion), and then working for French designer Robert Clergerie, before"
"ages"", at least as far as fashion went. Styles were old fashioned, and materials were difficult to obtain due to poor domestic production and high import taxes. She opened her first shop, known as ""The Establishment"", in Bloor Street in downtown Toronto and began designing clothes. She was particularly known for creating ""glamorous garments showcasing innovation in textile techniques"" and her glamorous evening wear found favour with the social elite of Toronto's fund-raising circuit. Her creations were worn by Cher and Ella Fitzgerald. She went on to open a factory, the product of which was known as the Re-Establishment range,"
"Natalie Massenet Dame Natalie Sara Massenet, (née Rooney; born 13 May 1965) is a fashion entrepreneur and former journalist, who founded the designer fashion portal Net-a-Porter. From 2013 to 2017, she was the chairman of the British Fashion Council. In 2017 alongside Nick Brown, she co-founded Imaginary Ventures. Credited by many as changing the way designer fashion is retailed, she has been described by ""The Observer"" as: ""fashion's favourite self-made success story"". Massenet was born in Los Angeles, California on 13 May 1965, the daughter of American journalist turned film publicist Bob L. Rooney and Barbara Jones, a British model"
"early designs through Mary Quant's boutique ""Bazaar"", Kiki set up her own boutique in Sloane Street, in collaboration with her husband. Some sources suggest that this boutique was called ""Glass & Black"", although extant Kiki Byrne garments are labelled ""Kiki Byrne"". Following its initial success, the Byrnes moved ""Kiki Byrne"" to new premises on the King's Road. Byrne and Mary Quant were remembered as the ""first people to make clothes for young people"". Their designs offered a young alternative to the mature styles then being produced by high fashion designers. Byrne told ""The Sydney Morning Herald"" in 1958 that ""only"
"Nasir Mazhar Nasir Mazhar is a British fashion designer. He is best recognised for his inventive approaches to sports caps and headwear. Lady Gaga has worn a few of Nasir Mazhar's hats. Mazhar was born in East London and brought up in Leytonstone, London, to Turkish Cypriot parents. Once he left school Mazhar began an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. While working in a Brick Lane salon, he started designing headpieces and soon progressed to hats. He recently created the hats for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony (the clubbing scene), and launched his first full clothing for men and women"
"bought a house in Canonbury in Islington, north London. In her later years she lived at 68 Canonbury Road, Islington, London, and died at University College Hospital on 2 February 2012, of bronchopneumonia and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Daphne Brooker Daphne Elizabeth Brooker (née Beacon, 8 June 1927 - 2 February 2012) was a British model, costume designer, and a professor and head of fashion at Kingston University for three decades, where she had ""a leading role in the teaching of fashion"". She was born Daphne Elizabeth Beacon on 8 June 1927 at the Ormond Maternity Home, 29 Blantyre Street, Chelsea,"
"Pat Booth Pat Booth, Lady Lowe (24 April 1943 – 11 May 2009) was an English model, photographer and author of romantic fiction. Raised in the East End of London by a boxer father and an ambitious mother, Booth posed for such photographers as Norman Parkinson, Allen Jones (artist) and David Bailey in the 1960s. Famously, she was the model for Allen Jones' ""table"" depicting a woman on all fours. She opened two boutiques in London - Top Gear and Countdown on the King's Road during the 60's and 70's. She later became a photographer herself, taking pictures of such"
"The battle to get into the mainstream was helped when designs were worn by establishment celebrities such as Janet Street-Porter, swimmer Sharron Davies, Helena Bonham Carter, and Isabella Rossellini. They were seen in films such as ""Mona Lisa"". Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell used her clothes for avant garde dance group: the Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs. She was the first designer to print onto latex, an expensive and difficult process due to the elasticity of rubber. In 1988 she went into partnership with Jessamy Calkin opening the shop Heels of London selling shoes to the likes of Madonna. She also made"
"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."
"leading Pop interior designer and furniture maker Max Clendinning (b. 1924) who designed cupboards, cubicles and display cases for Dior’s ready to wear clothes and accessories. To combine the old and new, everything (including the walls, ceilings and woodwork) was painted a uniform mid-grey with a grey velvet Wilton carpet and grey uniformed attendants to “throw the clothes into sharper relief, and seems to conform with the classical, refined elegance of the House of Dior itself.” This austere style of monochromatic design was developed from his seminal 1960s signature white on white designs that marked the peak of British Modernism."
"in 1969. By the late 1960s shops such as Laura Ashley (whose first London outlet opened in 1968) were routinely promoting the ""peasant look"" and selling a range of ""uniquely eccentric clothes ... The magic was being able to step into a 'Laura Ashley' dress and imagine you had found something out of a dressing-up box"". At around the same time too, and into the 1970s, the brassière (or bra), which, as noted, had been seen as a liberating innovation in the early part of the century, came to be regarded by some women, such as the Australian academic Germaine"
"Saks Fifth Avenue, the Museum of Modern Art, and Harrods. In 1998, Bittar launched the first of what would become many designer collaborations, working with Burberry, the British luxury fashion house. Bittar designed Burberry's first Ready-to-wear jewelry collection, interpreting their trademark plaid onto Lucite. Subsequent collaborations include legendary stylist and costume designer Patricia Field for Sex and the City, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Estee Lauder, Michael Kors, Jason Wu, Jeremy Scott, Michael Angel, and Phillip Lim. Michelle Obama regularly chose to wear Alexis Bittar pieces. Other iconic celebrities who have been seen wearing the brand are: Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Solange Knowles,"
"archives, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2013, Workers for Freedom – along with BodyMap, Katharine Hamnett and Betty Jackson – featured in the V&A's ""From Club to Catwalk"" exhibition, which charted the influence of street styles on British high fashion. Workers for Freedom Workers for Freedom was a British fashion label that was launched in 1985 by Graham Fraser and Richard Nott. The brand was awarded Designer of the Year in 1989 at the British Fashion Awards. The brand look was described by the ""LA Times"" as: ""rich-hippie intellectual clothes"". ""The Glasgow"
"and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to the fashion and retail industries. In 2013, Massenet was made a Woman of the Year by US ""Glamour"" magazine. In 2014, she was named as one of the 100 most influential people by ""Time"". Natalie Massenet Dame Natalie Sara Massenet, (née Rooney; born 13 May 1965) is a fashion entrepreneur and former journalist, who founded the designer fashion portal Net-a-Porter. From 2013 to 2017, she was the chairman of the British Fashion Council. In 2017 alongside Nick Brown, she co-founded"
"began designing clothes for department stores such as Fenwick, Harrods and House of Fraser. Speaking to ""The Times"" about his return to British fashion after two decades away, he described his exasperation with the industry's focus on young designers. ""What they need is a ""good"" designer to do young clothes...the trouble is that the industry forces them too early. They are never given the chance to make their mistakes in the backroom."" Gerald McCann (fashion designer) Gerald McCann (born 1931) is a British fashion designer who was considered among the leading lights of the Swinging London fashion scene, alongside names"
"everyday situations. Kim West Kim West (born 1959 in Gloucester, England) is a cult British fashion designer working mostly in latex. She was one of the first designers to bring latex into mainstream fashion. Although having no formal training in fashion, West had designed clothes for herself from an early age. When she made a dress out of latex in 1984, it received so much attention that she began making it for others. Her designs found early success with such notables as Adam Ant, Samantha Fox and Tony James, but she wanted to reach ordinary women. In 1986 her latex"
"Maureen Baker (fashion designer) Evelyn Maureen Baker (born Porter; 26 May 1920 – 5 December 2017) was a British fashion designer. She was the chief designer for the Susan Small label for many years, before working for her own label. She is perhaps best known as the designer of the wedding dress of Princess Anne. She was born Evelyn Maureen Porter on 26 May 1920, one of six children of Stephen Porter, a bookmaker, and his wife, Ethel, grew up in Hammersmith, London, and was educated at a convent school. Baker rose to prominence when she was appointed in 1943"
"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"
"Mary Quant Dame Barbara Mary Quant, Mrs Plunket Greene, DBE, FCSD, RDI (born 11 February 1934) is an English fashion designer and fashion icon, who is of Welsh heritage. She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements. She was one of the designers who took credit for the miniskirt and hotpants, and by promoting these and other fun fashions she encouraged young people to dress to please themselves and to treat fashion as a game. Ernestine Carter, an authoritative and influential fashion journalist of the 1950s and 1960s, wrote: ""It is given to a"
"Vivienne Westwood Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood (née Swire; born 8 April 1941) is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. Westwood came to public notice when she made clothes for Malcolm McLaren's boutique in the King's Road, which became known as ""SEX"". It was their ability to synthesise clothing and music that shaped the 1970s UK punk scene, dominated by McLaren's band, the Sex Pistols. She was inspired by the shock-value of punk—""seeing if one could put a spoke in the system"". Westwood went on to open four"
"decided to design and make more of the clothes she stocked, instead of buying-in stock. Initially working solo, she was soon employing a handful of machinists, and by 1966 she was working with eighteen manufacturers concurrently. For a while in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Quant was one of only two London-based high-end designers consistently offering youthful clothes for young people. The other was Kiki Byrne, who opened her boutique on the King's Road in direct competition with Quant. The miniskirt, described as one of the defining fashions of the 1960s, is one of the garments most widely associated"
"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"
"the moment, and gave advice on how to turn dark and curly hair straight and blonde."" However, with Boyd the target of hostility from the Beatles' female fans, Harrison insisted she abandon her career, to ensure their privacy. In July 1968, she and her sister Jenny, who was also a model, opened a boutique in London's fashionable Chelsea Market. They named it ""Jennifer Juniper"" after Donovan's song of the same name. Jenny managed the shop, which sold antiques and other ""objets d'art"", while Boyd was the buyer. Boyd says she had ""virtually given up"" modelling by the early 1970s. She"
"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"