Zandra Lindsey Rhodes (b. 1940) is an English fashion designer, most prominent in the 1970s and known for her unusual clothes and loud colors. Rhodes studied fashion at the Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 1966. “We were determined to live in a world of today, making it all ourselves, creating our own environment, a perfect world of plastic, perfectly artificial,” she recalls. She was one of the new wave of British designers who put London at the forefront of the international fashion scene in the 1970s. She created clothing for Diana, Princess of Wales, and for Freddy Mercury of the band Queen. Today she has made San Diego her second home and in 2003 opened the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.

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