Name/Title
Foale and Tuffin : the sixties : a decade in fashionEntry/Object ID
TT505.F63.W43Description
"Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin were two bolshy girls who just did it. After meeting at Walthamstow Art School in 1955 and then studying together at the Royal College of Art, they embarked on a trailblazing career in fashion lasting throughout the 1960s, until their partnership came to an end in 1972. Quirky, youthful creativity, acute sensitivity to the latest moods and trends, expert craftsmanship, and a little Swinging Sixties good fortune placed them at the hub of the cultural explosion in London that defined the era. Their boutique off Carnaby Street was at the epicentre of the new fashion scene. Through detailed interviews with Foale and Tuffin themselves, exclusive access to their personal archives, and contributions from an extraordinary array of figures from the fashion, art and cultural scenes of the 1960s, 70s and beyond, Iain R. Webb builds a fascinating picture of the time, throwing new light on how fashion and business underwent a period of unprecedented change. It was a period of cross-pollination in art, music and fashion, of entrepreneurial and cultural innovation. Contributors include Manolo Blahnik, Sir Terence Conran, Felicity Green, Barbara Hulanicki, Caterine Milinaire, Janet Street Porter, Mary Quant and Jean Shrimpton. The narrative of the "Foale and Tuffin" story perfectly traces the decade from its groovy, optimistic beginnings, when the two embryonic fashion designers blithely set up shop in 1961, to its crash-and-burn finale, as Sixties sanguinity melted away into a hangover of Seventies cynicism, masked as it was with the distraction of fancy-dress escapism." -- PUBLISHERLexicon
Search Terms
fashion design--great britain, fashion designers--great britain, women fashion designersBook Details
Author
Iain R. WebbPublisher
Antique Collectors ClubPlace Published
Location
Woodbridge, EnglandCity
New YorkState/Province
New YorkCountry
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaDate Published
2009Call No.
TT505.F63.W43ISBN
1851496068, 9781851496068LCCN
2009512036Notes
Length: 220General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Foale and Tuffin conversation one : quite an eye-opener -- Derek Boshier -- Sylvia Ayton -- Vanessa Denza -- Pauline Smith -- Marit Allen -- Mary Quant -- Caroline Charles -- Jean Shrimpton -- Manolo Blahnik -- Terence Conran -- Sally Fleetwood -- Zandra Rhodes -- Gerald McCann -- Barbara Hulanicki -- Meriel McCooey -- Caterine Milinaire -- Sandy Boler -- Jenny Boyd -- Betsey Johnson -- John Jesse -- Celia Hammond -- Foale and Tuffin conversation two : we were going to be different -- Felicity Green -- Sandy Lieberson -- Jane Best -- Brigid Keenan -- Janet Street Porter -- Bernard Nevill -- Grace Coddington -- James Wedge -- May Routh -- Monica Renaudo -- Joan Burstein -- Lesley Ebbetts -- Jo Bergman -- Caroline Baker -- Molly Parkin -- Peter Blake -- Foale and Tuffin conversation three : the essense of the sixties -- Cast of characters -- Marion Foale -- Sally Tuffin.