John Bates: Fashion Designer

Richard Lester, Marit Allen (Foreword by)

$55.00

Publication Date: October 21st, 2008

Publisher:

ACC Distribution

ISBN:

9781851495702

Pages:

176

Description

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 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.