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For your viewing pleasure is this amazing (circa late 1970s)..

Added 2024-11-20 20:48:13 +0000 UTC

For your viewing pleasure is this amazing (circa late 1970s) velvet caftan, designed by the great Dame Zandra Rhodes. This incredible cut velvet fabric uses one of her own custom designs, and is one of my absolute favorites. It has the signature Zandra Rhodes feel while referencing the decadence of the 1920s. For those of you who may not know Dame Zandra Rhodes:

Known for her fabulously bold prints, the iconic British designer, Dame Zandra Rhodes, launched her eponymous fashion brand 56 years ago.

Nicknamed ‘The Princess of Punk’, Rhodes burst onto the fashion scene in the late 1960s and continues to work from her studio in London. Rhodes began as a printed textile designer and is renowned for perfecting the art-of-print as an intrinsic influence on garment shape. With dramatic designs and her own distinctive look, Rhodes paved the way for fashion as theatre and entertainment. Her illustrious career has seen her dress international stars including Freddie Mercury, Diana Ross and Barbara Streisand, and British Royalty, most notably, Princess Diana and Princess Anne.

Originally marked as creating designs that were ‘too extreme’, in the early 70s Rhodes left England to try and break the American market. Within a few weeks of arriving in New York she met Diana Vreeland who debuted Rhodes’ ‘Knitted Circle’ collection on Natalie Wood in American Vogue. The rest is history…