Zandra Rhodes (b.1940)

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Fashion designer Rhodes, whose mother was a fitter in a Paris fashion house, was born in Kent. She trained at Medway College of Art from 1959 to 1961 and the Royal College of Art from 1961 to 1964, where she subsequently taught. In 1964 she became design partner in the Fulham Road Clothes Shop and set up her print factory and studio the following year, producing dresses using her own prints. In the 1970s, Rhodes designed clothes for royalty and the rock band Queen. From 1987 her clothes were influenced by and made from the Indian sari. She is known as an innovator in the use of various fabrics including jersey, made up into garments with 'lettuce' edges and seams on the outside. She set up her Fashion Museum in Bermondsey in 2003.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Zandra Rhodes (b.1940)

Date

1989

Medium

glass

Measurements

H 56 x W 27 x D 29.5 cm

Accession number

6221

Acquisition method

purchased, 1993

Work type

Bust

Signature/marks description

signed, inscribed and dated

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