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Zandra Rhodes
1964

Great colours and zany design. Why not use one of these as a wall hanging. They will look spectacular. Prepared to split.



Zandra Rhodes is a British fashion designer. Graduating from The Royal College of Art, School of Textile & Design in 1964, Rhodes opened her first shop ‘The Fulham Road Clothes Shop’ , with the fashion designer Sylvia Ayton. In 1969 she set up on her own and took her collection to New York where Diana Vreeland featured her garments in American Vogue. Rhodes went on to establish the Fashion Museum in Bermondsey, London in 2003.



Heals purchased this design Top Brass from Zandra Rhodes' first year degree show at the Royal College of Art in 1964. The design epitomises the swinging sixties when colourful military jackets were in vogue. Rhodes chose medals as her theme, a popular one with the Beatles for the Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band record. Top Brass was one of a group of four prints produced.This design was influenced by a painting of third year student David Hockney, in particular Hockney's A Grand Procession of Dignatories 1961. Hockney's painting shows little medal like shapes along the border. "From the way the picutre was created it was the medals that first caught my eye" said Rhodes. She sketched medals at the Wellington and Imperial War Museums in preparation for the design.



 


Cataloguing

Top Brass furnishing textile for Heal & Son Ltd with eight colours, screen-printed on cotton, the selvedges with Heals, Top Brass by Zandra Rhodes, the opposite selvedge with Woven and Printed in England.



1.  SOLD



2.  4ft 8 in x 50 in; 1.40 x 1.27 m selvedge to selvedge.


Condition

1. Excellent.  Fold marks to the top, bottom and selvedges.



2. Excellent. It appears unused, until you notice a fold at the very top and on the selvedges. There is also a very large tear and hole to the lower right hand side. 9 in long x 2 in ; 23 x 5 cm. Below another 12 x  in; 30 x 1.5 cm wide. These could be backed with an off white cotton.


Comments

The Art of Zandra Rhodes. Zandra Rhodes and Anne Kinght 1985.



Artists' Textiles in Britain 1945-1970. Geoffrey Rayner and Richard Chamberlain. p 112, no 106.



The Ambassador, no 2 1964  Zandra Rhodes. Textile, fashion designer and painter. p 70