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John Bates: Fashion Designer

Name: John Bates: Fashion Designer
Author: Richard Lester
ISBN: 9781851495702

by Richard Lester, Marit Allen

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Overview

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.

Synopsis

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.

About the Author, 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 organizing the designer's retrospective exhibition at the museum in 2006.