AVANT GARDE FONT STYLE ARCHIVE

That led to the start of making loon pants in bright crushed velvet for bands and the brave men of Edinburgh. He was followed by David Bowie and then endless visits from other musicians that were around at the time including Marc Bolan. Through contacts at the Traverse Theatre Lindsey Kemp, the mime artist, came to stay.

Then I left Arbroath and ran away to the big city I was a beatnik! Then my brother Bill and I bought a derelict nine-room flat in Edinburgh. With the prize money I went straight to Mary Quant and bought the iconic black/white dress/coat with a matching hat which I still have today. It all started in the early 1960s when I won the British National Twist competition, which was held in London. That’s the important thing about buying a collection: Finding that timelessness.īefore I ask you about who and what you’re selling from the archive, I’d love to know a bit more about your history, and how you founded Corniche? I could put it in the store now and it would look right. It wasn’t like we didn’t need the money, but we knew those jackets were special, same as the Flett skirt. Most people would have just slashed the price tags and put them in the sale, but we kept them instead. I also found some Copperwheat Blundell jackets. I found a fringed skirt that he designed and…there was a huge amount of emotion at seeing this treasure. He was avant garde, yet what he did was also very figure hugging he loved a woman's figure. Like John Flett: I remember seeing him selling his collections at Olympia in London. So, yes, I am emotional about what I sell.

AVANT GARDE FONT STYLE ARCHIVE

Instead of cutting the prices of things at the end of a season you put them in your archive instead! You go online and you can see that people are selling the bread and butter labels and there might be a few of those that I am doing, and I always think it must be heartbreaking for those designers to see what they’ve done slashed in the sales. I am quite proud to have gone down that route-and survived. I have never bought anything just to make money.

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