Zandra Rhodes
(1940-), Fashion designerDame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes
Sitter in 13 portraits
Fashion designer Rhodes, whose mother was a fitter in a Paris fashion house, was born in Kent. She trained at Medway College of Art (1959-61), and the Royal College of Art (1961-64), 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.
by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 23 June 1977
NPG P1241
by Bruno Karlson
Pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper, 1960s
NPG x201367
by Universal Pictorial Press and Agency Ltd
bromide press print, March 1978
NPG x184038
by Unknown photographer
bromide press print, 17 June 1980
NPG x184037
by Norman Parkinson
colour print on card mount, 1981
NPG x30143
by Peter Lane
resin print, 1993
NPG x47315
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Joy Pitts
02 January 2020, 14:25
Hello, you will be interested in this portrait that I assembled of Zandra Rhodes using her designer clothing labels, original available.
http://www.joypitts.co.uk/zandra-rhodes
Many thanks,
Joy Pitts
Turning 1000s of clothing labels into works of art.