"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"
"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"
"Margaret Howell Margaret Howell CBE (born 5 September 1946, Tadworth, Surrey, England) is a contemporary British clothing designer who has worked successfully in both men's and women's wear for nearly four decades. Keynote designs are her take on the shirt, gymslip, lace-up shoe, duffle coat and trench coat. With their androgynous quality, and sympathetically shot by photographers such as Bruce Weber, Koto Bolofo, and Alasdair McLellan, her clothes have been described as 'marrying traditional styles with modern appeal... [so] all her work... has a stylish timelessness.' She herself says, ""My style could be described as understated quality, updated modern classics."""
"business suits. Women's fashion was revolutionized and simplified in 1926 by the French designer Coco Chanel, who published a drawing of a simple black dress in ""Vogue"" magazine. She famously said, ""A woman needs just three things; a black dress, a black sweater, and, on her arm, a man she loves."" Other designers contributed to the trend of the little black dress. The Italian designer Gianni Versace said, ""Black is the quintessence of simplicity and elegance,"" and French designer Yves Saint Laurent said, ""black is the liaison which connects art and fashion. One of the most famous black dresses of"
"womenswear collection and relaunch his career. John Flett (fashion designer) John Flett (28 September 1963 – 19 January 1991) was a British fashion designer who achieved early success with his own brand before designing briefly for Claude Montana. He died of a heart attack at the age of 27, while working in Florence. Sue Chowles, who had a work placement with Flett before working in fashion and later as a fashion academic, has said: ""He would have been more influential than Galliano now...he was the most inspirational pattern cutter, a true genius"". ""The Independent"" included John Flett at number 17"
"September 2016, Sophia Webster products were available through over 200 retailers around the world. Sophia Webster Sophia Grace Webster (born March 18, 1985) is a British shoe and accessories designer who launched her eponymous footwear line in September 2012. She is renowned for a feminine, bold yet playful design approach which has led to distribution at over 200 retailers worldwide. As a teenager, Webster was a competitive dancer. She attended The Rochester Grammar School before going on to study art and sculpture at Camberwell College of Arts in London. Realising she wanted to create shoes, Webster went on to Cordwainers'"
"cut short."" Alexander McQueen Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001, and founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen committed suicide by hanging in 2010, at the age of 40, at his home in Mayfair, London. Born on 17 March 1969 in Lewisham, London, to"
"Sophia Webster Sophia Grace Webster (born March 18, 1985) is a British shoe and accessories designer who launched her eponymous footwear line in September 2012. She is renowned for a feminine, bold yet playful design approach which has led to distribution at over 200 retailers worldwide. As a teenager, Webster was a competitive dancer. She attended The Rochester Grammar School before going on to study art and sculpture at Camberwell College of Arts in London. Realising she wanted to create shoes, Webster went on to Cordwainers' College at the London College of Fashion, and then studied for her MA at"
"her BIKE GEEK design was short listed as one of the Design Museum's Designs of the Year Shoes designed by Neuls are referenced in the Peter James novel ""Dead Like You"" and the Judy Astley novel ""The Look of Love"". Neuls has collaborated with many creative individuals and groups over the past 15 years. Tracey Neuls Tracey Neuls is a shoe designer; founder of TN29 and the eponymous Tracey Neuls labels. Neuls produced her first commercial collection in 2000 after winning the New Generation Prize at London Fashion Week. Neuls has a shop in Marylebone Lane, London – listed in"
"Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon (née Sutherland; 13 June 1863 – 20 April 1935) was a leading British fashion designer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who worked under the professional name Lucile. The first British-based designer to achieve international acclaim, Lucy Duff-Gordon was a widely acknowledged innovator in couture styles as well as in fashion industry public relations. In addition to originating the ""mannequin parade"", a precursor to the modern fashion show, and training the first professional models, she launched liberating slit skirts and low necklines, popularized less restrictive corsets, and promoted alluring and pared-down"
"her inspirations was the memory of seeing a young tap-dancer wearing a ""tiny skirt over thick black tights,"" influencing her designs for young, active women who did not wish to resemble their mothers. In addition to the miniskirt, Quant is often credited with inventing the coloured and patterned tights that tended to accompany the garment, although their creation is also attributed to the Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga who offered harlequin-patterned tights in 1962 or to Bates. In 2009, a Mary Quant minidress was among the 10 British ""design classics"" featured on a series of Royal Mail stamps, alongside the Tube"
"sad day but Sonia Rykiel leaves behind her an extraordinary legacy."" Sonia Rykiel Sonia Rykiel (; ; 25 May 1930 – 25 August 2016) was a French fashion designer and writer. She created the Poor Boy Sweater, which was featured on the cover of French ""Elle"" magazine. Her knitwear designs and new fashion techniques led her to be dubbed the ""Queen of Knits"". The Sonia Rykiel label was founded in 1968 upon the opening of her first store, making clothing, accessories and fragrances. Rykiel was also a writer and her first book was published in 1979. In 2012, Rykiel revealed"
"Dolores died in Paris on 7 November 1975. Dolores (Ziegfeld girl) Dolores or Rose Dolores (born Kathleen Mary Rose; 26 September 1893 – 7 November 1975) was an English model. She is recognised as the first celebrity clothes model and has been credited with inventing the ""blank hauteur"" of the modern fashion model. Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. called her ""The loveliest showgirl in the world"". She was known for her commanding stage presence and became the star of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1917 until her retirement in 1923. She lived the rest of her life in Paris and during the Second"
"three British Fashion Awards. Since 1996, she has co-chaired the committee for the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer appeal leading the efforts to raise substantial funds to support the charity. Amanda Wakeley Amanda Wakeley OBE (born 15 September 1962) is a British fashion designer best known for her evening and cocktail dresses and accessories, and for her “clean glam” signature style, has also developed a presence in daywear, including day-dresses, tailoring and knitwear and a line of accessories and jewellery. Sposa is the brand's bridal collection. Wakeley is an advocate for international organisation Women for Women. Wakeley is the daughter of"
"starting her career as model she continues to regularly feature in the public eye, with The Sunday Times Style Magazine recently referring to her as one of the Great British Beauties. She modelled for Hermès' Autumn/Winter 2012 catwalk show and in its Le Monde d'Hermès publication. Other recent modelling credits include French Elle, American Vogue and French Vogue. Cecilia Chancellor Cecilia Chancellor (born 1 September 1966) is a British model who has worked consistently since the 1980s and has been referred to as the living embodiment of the ""London Girl"" by Vogue UK's creative director Robin Derrick in his book"
"1999, Campbell has released 16 fragrances for women via her eponymous perfume house, under the Procter & Gamble brand. Naomi Campbell Naomi Elaine Campbell (born 22 May 1970) is a Jamaican English model, actress and singer. Recruited at the age of 15, she established herself amongst the most recognizable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and the 1990s and was one of six models of her generation declared :supermodels by the fashion industry and the international press. In addition to her modelling career, Campbell has embarked on other ventures, which include an R&B-pop studio album and several acting appearances"
"Ossie Clark Raymond ""Ossie"" Clark (9 June 1942 – 6 August 1996) was an English fashion designer who was a major figure in the Swinging Sixties scene in London and the fashion industry in that era. Clark is now renowned for his vintage designs by present-day designers. Clark is compared to the 1960s fashion great Biba and influenced many other designers, including Yves Saint Laurent, Anna Sui and Tom Ford. Manolo Blahnik has said of Ossie Clark's work: ""He created an incredible magic with the body and achieved what fashion should do—produce desire."" Ossie Clark and Ossie Clark for Radley"
"I get from having fewer toxins in my body is extraordinary."" John Galliano John Charles Galliano (born November 28, 1960) is a Gibraltar-born British fashion designer who was the head designer of French fashion companies Givenchy (July 1995 to October 1996), Christian Dior (October 1996 to March 2011), and his own label John Galliano (1988 to 2011). At present, Galliano is the creative director of Paris-based fashion house Maison Margiela. Galliano has been named British Designer of the Year four times. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, he was named the fifth most influential person in British culture. He"
"British fashion designer Mary Quant commented that it had become a requisite for contemporary women to strive ""to look like Pattie Boyd rather than Marlene Dietrich"", adding: ""Their aim is to look childishly young, naïvely unsophisticated, and it takes more sophistication to work out that look than those early would-be sophisticates ever dreamed of."" At the request of Gloria Stavers, Boyd began writing a column, titled ""Patti's Letter from London"", for the American teen magazine ""16"". According to Hibbert: ""She reported on the latest trends in Carnaby Street, informed readers as to what the Beatles and Stones were wearing at"
"by teenaged actress Taylor Momsen, who, in 2010, became the ""face"" of the British retailing chain New Look. Momsen described her style as ""sweet and tough, grunge meets Chanel – a giant oxymoron"" and claimed that she chose her outfits from ""whatever clean clothes she finds on her floor"" (""although no one ever believes me""). In the world of Parisian fashion, the term ""bobo"" (short for ""Bourgeois Bohème""), which also had political connotations, was applied to ""typically discerning customers who are left wing and Left Bank""; or, put another way, ""that subset of thirty- or forty-something-year-olds who don't allow their"
"with Quant. While she is often cited as the inventor of the style, this claim has been challenged by others. Marit Allen, a contemporary fashion journalist and editor of the influential ""Young Ideas"" pages for UK ""Vogue"", firmly stated that another British fashion designer, John Bates, rather than Quant or André Courrèges, was the original creator of the miniskirt. Others credit Courrèges with the invention of the style. However, skirts had been getting shorter since the 1950s—a development Quant considered practical and liberating, allowing women the ability to run for a bus. Quant later said, ""It was the girls on"
"the 1,348th richest person in the UK, with a net worth of £40 million. Kate Moss Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is an English model and businesswoman. Born in Croydon, Greater London, she was discovered in 1988 at age 14 by Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Model Management, at JFK Airport in New York City. Arriving at the end of the ""supermodel era"", Moss rose to fame in the mid 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her to fashion icon status. She is known for her waifish figure, and"
"by providing advice on customising the pattern. While some London couture designers were being criticised by the press by the late 1960s as being out of touch with the fashion trends, Donnellan was still considered influential. A 1970 review of his spring collection notes his skillful presentation of a new silhouette and quoted his guidance that if women didn't show the knees, they must define the hips. The review concluded: ""It was a collection for 1970, entirely relevant to now – no nonsense about the twenties, the thirties nor the fifties."" Donnellan was well placed to understand the move towards"
"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"
"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"
"Wendy Dagworthy Wendy Dagworthy OBE (born 4 March 1950) is an English former fashion designer and now design academic. During her career she has led fashion design teaching at both the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins, mentoring notable fashion designers including Stella McCartney and Hussein Chalayan. An influential designer in her own right in the 1970s and '80s with the Wendy Dagworthy label, and one of the founders of London Fashion Week, she was described by the ""Daily Telegraph"" as: ""the high priestess of British fashion"". Wendy Ann Dagworthy was born in 1950 in Gravesend, Kent, the"
"Alex Curran Alexandra Gerrard (née Curran; born 23 September 1982) is an English model, fashion columnist for the ""Daily Mirror"", and the wife of former Liverpool and England captain Steven Gerrard. She was described as a leading ""WAG"" of the England national football team, along with women such as Victoria Beckham and Coleen Rooney. In 2007, the ""Times"" referred to her, then Steven Gerrard's fiancée, as an """"über""-WAG"". On 29 October 2007, she launched her own fragrance, named ""Alex"", which was one of the top sellers of 2007. Curran writes a weekly column for the ""Daily Mirror"", titled ""Go Shopping"
"had two daughters. Such was her fame after her six-year modelling career that the wedding, at Caxton Hall, Westminster, was mobbed by onlookers. Subsequently known as Mrs Nigel Campbell, she organised the Berkeley dress show (a debutante event and fixture of the 'season') during the 1960s – despite her doubts about its relevance to the times. She also dispensed fashion advice in the ""Daily Telegraph"" newspaper and designed children's clothes, which were modelled by her two younger daughters. Barbara Goalen Barbara Goalen (January 1, 1921 – June 16, 2002) was a British model who came to international prominence between 1945–54,"
"reject the idealized femininity of the 1950s. In England, the emerging generation was bored of the couture houses' conservative designs and instead looked to boutiques to reinvent their style. This was a time in society when teenagers were able to explore their own identities and had the freedom to push boundaries due to post-World War II conditions. The boutique saw the start of the London ready-to-wear industry as people flocked for mass-produced clothing at a lower price point than its predecessors. Mary Quant, often credited for inventing the mini-skirt, was a leader in the boutique movement and attributed her primary"
"Vuitton inspired by Nemeth, and celebrating his life and work. The collection incorporated Nemeth's own prints, and jewellery designed by Blame. Jones, who is a renowned collector of 1980s London clubwear design, described Nemeth as ""the most important designer to come out of London alongside Vivienne Westwood. He is Savile Row, he is the street, he is the club."" Nemeth died on 22 September 2010 from lung cancer. Nemeth's daughters, Lui and Riyo Nemeth, have launched a venue for young designers and artists in London called Primitive, designed to carry on their father's legacy. Christopher Nemeth Christopher Nemeth was a"
"famous in publishing circles as a woman's magazine that had more male readers than female, which was an aspect of its financial decline during the economic crisis of the 1970s. The magazine was revived in May 2000, but it lasted just 13 issues, closing with its June 2001 issue. Nova (UK magazine) Nova, published from March 1965 to October 1975, was a thoughtful glossy title that created its own unique niche in the British consumer magazine market at the very moment when women's hemlines rose six inches above the knee. It has been described as ""a politically radical, beautifully designed,"
"Alexander McQueen Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001, and founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen committed suicide by hanging in 2010, at the age of 40, at his home in Mayfair, London. Born on 17 March 1969 in Lewisham, London, to Scottish taxi"
"Katie Grand Katie Grand (born April 1, 1971) is a British stylist and fashion journalist. Grand was born in Leeds, England in and grew up in Selly Oak, Birmingham. Grand grew up in Birmingham. She discovered fashion at 12, saying:I was really nerdy. And then, kind of overnight, I can clearly remember thinking, ""I just want to be cool."" Around that time, my dad's girlfriend moved up from London and I thought she was terribly chic. She always used to wear Warehouse, which had just opened and was really good, because Jeff Banks was still in charge. So there are"