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English Fashion Designer
Read MoreI mentioned Ossie Clark as a new friend. I had met him through Christopher Gibbs, and he had started using me occasionally for photographs for magazines. When we returned from Rome, and I was complaining that I needed a new dress, Nigel said to me: “Why not go to Ossie Clark and ask him to make a dress just for you? Nothing to do with one of his collections.’ So I did, rather nervously; and much to my surprise Ossie was frightfully excited.
“Yes, sure darling”, he said, “I’ll do anything you want.”
So I said: “I want something stylish and fashionable”. And he began making me a beautiful dress covered with moons and stars. While this creation was under way, he rang me up and asked me to pose with his models Gaylor and Carianne for a fashion spread in a magazine. I’m not sure that the photographs ever appeared in print; but from that time onwards, instead of buying from Ossie’s shop, I would go to his workroom and buy from there.
