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In 1948, she married Carl Apfel. Two years later, they launched the textile firm Old World Weavers and ran it until they retired in 1992. From 1950 to 1992, Iris Apfel took part in several design restoration projects, including work at the White House for nine presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton.
Jenny Kee (born 24 January 1947) is an Australian fashion designer. She was born in Bondi to a Chinese father and a sixth-generation Australian mother of Italian/Anglo Saxon descent. Kee started her career in fashion in modelling, at one time featuring as the face of Canadian Airlines advertisements.
Lynn Yaeger is a celebrated journalist whose biting humour and wit bolstered the fashion pages of The Village Voice for three decades and whose bylines now regularly appear in Vogue, WSJ and New York magazine. As fearless with her words as she is with her fashion, Yaeger is known for her unapologetic frankness on paper and her staunchly individual personal style.
Marks and Spencers introduced the upmarket Zandra Rhodes collection, modelled and made by Rhodes, into the bigger stores by late 2009. She has her own collection of jewellery.
Westwood was born Vivienne Isabel Swire in the village of Tintwistle Cheshire on 8 April 1941, the daughter of Gordon Swire and Dora Swire ( née Ball), who had married two years previously, two weeks after the outbreak of World War II.
She used a bright red Olivetti "Valentina" manual typewriter designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1969. Piaggi had a large clothes collection, including 2,865 dresses and 265 pairs of shoes,[citation needed ] according to a 2006 exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Johnson's fashion career started after she entered and won the Mademoiselle Guest Editor Contest. Within a year, she was the in-house designer for Manhattan boutique Paraphernalia. Johnson became part of both the youthquake fashion movement and Andy Warhol's underground scene, along with The Velvet Underground, Edie Sedgwick and Lou Reed.