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Fashion Designer's Museum Celebrates Zandra Rhodes' Life in TextilesThe first British retrospective of the work of textile and fashion designer Zandra Rhodes, on at the Fashion and Textile Museum until June 25 2005.
As you enter the exhibition, a giant photo of Zandra Rhodes gives you a taste of what's to come. She has fuchsia pink hair adorned with glittery yellow and blue feathers, turquoise eye shadow and pink lipstick.
The show takes you through Zandra Rhodes' work from the past 40 years, and demonstrates every part of her design process - from initial sketches to printing, pattern cutting and the finished item.
Garments are displayed on elaborately made-up mannequins, accessorised with Andrew Logan's sparkling, oversized jewellery in coloured mirrored glass.
A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Rhodes never intended to make clothes herself. She describes taking her textile prints to designers and being told they were either 'too big or too extreme'. So she did things her own way.
Print layouts drawn onto huge pieces of card show how the final dress pattern conforms to the shapes within the original print - the complete opposite of how pattern cutting usually happens.
A stunning example of this is a 1971 quilted jacket made from a cream and pink shell print satin.
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