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Fashion Flashback: Zandra Rhodes

Fashion Reverie takes a look back at iconic British designer Zandra Rhodes. With her colorful textiles and use of safety pins and seams turned inside out, Zandra Rhodes was one of the new wave of innovative designers in the 1970s that put British fashion on the international fashion scene. With fellow Brit Vivienne Westwood, Rhodes helped usher in the punk aesthetic into British fashion.

Zandra Rhodes has made costumes for Queen’s Freddie Mercury and dressed Princess Diana. In 1997 she was made a Commander of the British Empire and just this February Rhodes held a retrospective of her work during Paris Fashion Week. This was first time Rhodes had shown her designs in Paris since the 70s. The retrospective spanned four decades with garments pulled directly from the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Costume Institute.

—Staff

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