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Listen to Episode 37 of Clever: Zandra Rhodes

Legendary British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes tells Jaime and Amy how her early early textile designs were considered too extreme for the traditional purveyors, so she had to take manufacturing into her own hands. As a fashion designer, she pioneered the use of printed textiles as an intrinsic part of the garment’s composition. Now 50 years into her career, she attributes her extraordinary work ethic to her mother. Oh, and she has been known to frolic in the sea alongside Burt Bacharach. Listen:

Zandra Rhodes in 1970 in her London Studio

Ethereal white dress from the Archive Collection I, exclusively for matchesfashion.com

Punk wedding dress in collection of Metropolitan Museum New York. Photographed by Clive Arrowsmith


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Jaime Derringer, Founder + Executive Editor of Design Milk, is a Jersey girl living in SoCal. She dreams about funky, artistic jewelry + having enough free time to enjoy some of her favorite things—running, reading, making music, and drawing.