John Bates: Fashion Designer
Richard Lester
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Description for John Bates: Fashion Designer
Hardcover. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, John Bates dominated the British fashion scene with a unique brand of style and innovation. No other designer had such a comprehensive influence on what the UK wore. This title is based on detailed interviews with John Bates, covering his entire career in fashion. Num Pages: 176 pages, 144b/w, 83 col. BIC Classification: AKB; AKTA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1310.
"John Bates came onto the London Fashion scene like a bolt of blue light, trailing sparks of excitement, designing the shortest skirts, the swiftest shapes, the surest colours. He had an unswerving instinct for what was new, modern, cutting edge." Marit Allen Throughout the 1960s and '70s John Bates dominated the British fashion scene with a unique brand of style and innovation. No other designer had such a comprehensive influence on what the UK wore. Diana Rigg wore his designs in The Avengers, and the press went wild. Cilla Black and Dusty Springfield sang in them; Jean Shrimpton, ... Read more
"John Bates came onto the London Fashion scene like a bolt of blue light, trailing sparks of excitement, designing the shortest skirts, the swiftest shapes, the surest colours. He had an unswerving instinct for what was new, modern, cutting edge." Marit Allen Throughout the 1960s and '70s John Bates dominated the British fashion scene with a unique brand of style and innovation. No other designer had such a comprehensive influence on what the UK wore. Diana Rigg wore his designs in The Avengers, and the press went wild. Cilla Black and Dusty Springfield sang in them; Jean Shrimpton, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
ACC Art Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851495702
SKU
V9781851495702
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-12
About Richard Lester
Richard Lester trained with Sotheby's in the early 1990s having worked for Osborne & Little and Liberty and combines writing with running an online vintage fashion business based in Sussex. In 2004 he donated a large collection of designs by John Bates to the Fashion Museum in Bath and assisted in organising the designer's retrospective exhibition at the museum in ... Read more
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