Zandra rhodes designer biography sample

Zandra Rhodes

Internationally known fashion designer, innovator, artist, actress

Women's International Center takes great pride in acknowledging, Zandra Rhodes, a remarkable woman, a talented artist with extraordinary imagination and foresight.

Indeed, Zandra is a fashion icon.

Zandra Rhodes was born in Kent in the 1940s and was introduced to the world of fashion by her mother, who was a fitter in a Paris fashion house and a teacher at Medway College of Art.

Zandra studied first at Medway and then at the Royal College of Art in London. Her major area of study was textile design.

Her early textile fashion designs were considered too outrageous by the traditional British manufacturers, so in 1969, she established her own retail outlet on fashionable Fulham Road in West London.

Zandra's own lifestyle has proved to be as dramatic, glamorous and extroverted as her designs.With her bright green hair (later changed to a spectacular pink and sometimes a radiant red), theatrical makeu