'Fashion Designers' (clockwise, from left: John Bates; Bill Gibb (William Elphinstone Gibb); Dame Mary Quant; Dame Zandra Rhodes; Ossie Clark; Gina Fratini; Thea Porter; Alice Pollock; Tim Gardner; Jean Muir)
1 portrait of Zandra Rhodes
'Fashion Designers' (clockwise, from left: John Bates; Bill Gibb (William Elphinstone Gibb); Dame Mary Quant; Dame Zandra Rhodes; Ossie Clark; Gina Fratini; Thea Porter; Alice Pollock; Tim Gardner; Jean Muir)
by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, April 1973
14 7/8 in. x 15 1/2 in. (377 mm x 393 mm) image size
Given by Antony Charles Robert Armstrong Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 2013
Primary Collection
NPG P1937
Artistback to top
- Antony Charles Robert Armstrong Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930-2017), Photographer, film-maker and designer; former husband of Princess Margaret. Artist or producer of 285 portraits, Sitter in 22 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- John Bates (1938-2022), Fashion designer. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Raymond ('Ossie') Clark (1942-1996), Fashion designer. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
- Gina Fratini (1931-2017), Fashion designer. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Tim Gardner, Fashion designer. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Bill Gibb (William Elphinstone Gibb) (1943-1988), Fashion designer. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Jean Elizabeth Muir (1928-1995), Fashion designer. Sitter in 11 portraits. Identify
- Alice Pollock (1942-), Fashion designer. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Thea Porter (1927-2000), Artist, fashion designer and retailer. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Dame Mary Quant (1930-2023), Fashion designer. Sitter in 26 portraits. Identify
- Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes (1940-), Fashion designer. Sitter in 13 portraits. Identify
This portraitback to top
This photograph of leading fashion designers was originally taken for British Vogue, but was not published in the magazine.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ribeiro, Aileen; Blackman, Cally, A Portrait of Fashion: Six Centuries of Dress at the National Portrait Gallery, 2015, p. 246
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Snowdon: A Life in View (26 September 2014 - 21 June 2015)
Events of 1973back to top
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