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8 Cards in this Set
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Barbara Hulanicki (started BIBA)
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'We were hard-core street fashion – Mary Quant was more posh, and Laura Ashley was more blue blood – Sloane ranger’
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Bernard
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‘Why the heck don’t we do a long dress, because women have worn long dresses for hundreds of years and that will use 6 or 7 yards of my fabric.’
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Martin Wood
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‘If Mary Quant was revolutionary in the 60’s Laura Ashley was counter revolutionary in the 70’s’
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1970s
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‘One of the liveliest shops in London, high, wide, airy with whitewashed walls, polished floors.’
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Laura on 1970s style
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‘We find anything with a nostalgia about it goes. It’s always a winner.’
‘I think…at the turn of the century, people…had a wonderful life, because they made the most of it. I think it all got broken up with the first world war, and we need to get that back again.’ |
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Bernard on Laura’s style
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‘She’s not a designer, she’s a critic. It’s her critical faculty which is her strength.’
‘She’s always getting the trend before it arrives…we just follow up and exploit it.’ |
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Laura on showing skin
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‘Remember, we are in the camouflage business.’
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Laura Ashley on her childhood
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‘tucked away in the Welsh mountains.’
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