Amies, Sir (Edwin) Hardy (1909–2003), dressmaker and fashion designer, was born on 17 July 1909 at 70 Delaware Mansions, Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale, London, the elder son and eldest of the three children of Herbert William Amies, a surveyor for London county council...
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Amies, Sir (Edwin) Hardy (1909–2003), dressmaker and fashion designer
Edwina Ehrman
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Sir (Edwin) Hardy Amies (1909–2003) by Brian Griffin, 1976 © Brian Griffin; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
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Anderson, Janet (1697–1761), milliner and maker of graveclothes
Elizabeth C. Sanderson
Anderson, Janet (1697–1761), milliner and maker of graveclothes, was born on 1 January 1697 and baptized in Edinburgh two days later. She was the daughter of James Anderson (1662–1728), clerk to the signet and author of Diplomata Scotiae, and Jean Ellis or Ellies (...
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Blow, Isabella (1958–2007)
Maker: Mario Testino
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Isabella Blow (1958–2007) by Mario Testino, 1998 Mario Testino / Art Partner; hat by Philip Treacy
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Blow, Isabella [née Isabella Delves Broughton] (1958–2007), fashion journalist and stylist
Edwina Ehrman
Blow, Isabella [née Isabella Delves Broughton] (1958–2007), fashion journalist and stylist, was born on 19 November 1958 at the London Clinic, 20 Devonshire Place, Westminster, the eldest child in the family of three daughters and a son of Major Sir Evelyn Delves Broughton, ...
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Brown, William (1748–1825), gem-engraver
Christopher Marsden
Brown, William (1748–1825), gem-engraver, was trained in London, but of his origins and family circumstances nothing is known. He suffered an early set-back in his career when, aged fourteen, he competed for a Royal Society of Arts drawing prize but, with four others, was disqualified for cheating; he was consequently ruled ineligible when he tried for the premium for intaglio-engraving in 1763. Nevertheless, in 1766 he began exhibiting engraved gems annually, first at the ...
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Burch, Edward (bap. 1730, d. 1814), gem-engraver
Gertrud Seidmann
Burch, Edward (bap. 1730, d. 1814), gem-engraver, son of Andrew Burch and his wife, Hannah Roberts, was baptized on 30 October 1730 at St Botolph, Aldgate, in the East End of London. Originally a Thames waterman, he felt drawn towards the arts and taught himself seal engraving. On 7 November 1752 he married ...
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Bury St Edmunds, Mabel of (fl. 1239–1256), embroiderer
Kay Staniland
Bury St Edmunds, Mabel of (fl. 1239–1256), embroiderer, is known to have been an embroiderer of ecclesiastical vestments directly commissioned by Henry III in the years 1239–44. Evidence for these commissions is to be found in the close and liberate rolls in a succession of payments for work in progress, for materials, or for work completed....
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Carr [née Strettell], Alice Laura Vansittart Comyns (1850–1927), costume designer and writer
Veronica Isaac
Carr [née Strettell], Alice Laura Vansittart Comyns (1850–1927), costume designer and writer, was born Alice Laura Vansittart Strettel at Taplow, Buckinghamshire, on 1 January 1850, the second child in the family of two daughters and one son of the Revd Alfred Baker Strettell...
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Alice Laura Vansittart Comyns Carr (1850–1927), by John Singer Sargent, 1889
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Clapham [née McVitie], Emily Maria (1857–1952), couturier
Susan Capes
Clapham [née McVitie], Emily Maria (1857–1952), couturier, was born at 59 St Paul Street North, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on 22 December 1857, the eldest daughter in the family of at least two daughters and one son of Walter McVitie (1829–1874), a painter and house decorator, and his wife, ...
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Clark, Raymond [Ossie] (1942–1996), fashion designer
Helen Chislett
Clark, Raymond [Ossie] (1942–1996), fashion designer, was born on 9 June 1942 at 107 Rice Lane, Walton Park, Liverpool, the youngest of the six children of Samuel Duncan Clark, a storesman in the Royal Navy victualling department, and his wife, Ann Grace Williams...
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Maker: David Hockney
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Clein [Cleyn], Francis [formerly Franz Klein] (d. 1658), painter and tapestry designer
Wendy Hefford
Clein [Cleyn], Francis [formerly Franz Klein] (d. 1658), painter and tapestry designer, was born at Rostock in Germany, possibly the son of a goldsmith, Hans Klein. Apart from date of birth and parentage, Clein's life up to 1642–3, when details seem to have been obtained from ...
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Cox, James (c. 1723–1800), jeweller and entrepreneur
Roger Smith
Cox, James (c. 1723–1800), jeweller and entrepreneur, was born in London, the son of Henry Cox (c.1691–1746), tailor of Broad Street, and his wife, Frances, née Matthews. He was apprenticed in 1738 to Humphry Pugh, goldsmith of Fleet Street and freeman of the ...
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Crane, Sir Francis (c. 1579–1636), courtier and tapestry manufacturer
Wendy Hefford
Crane, Sir Francis (c. 1579–1636), courtier and tapestry manufacturer, is first recorded in 1606. His name does not appear in registers of admissions to Oxford, Cambridge, or the inns of court until 1619, when he was admitted to Gray's Inn. A memorial tablet in the church at ...
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Creed, Charles Southey (1909–1966), couturier
Edwina Ehrman
Creed, Charles Southey (1909–1966), couturier, was born on 25 May 1909 at 29 rue Singer, Paris, the third son and sixth child of Henry Creed (b. 1863), tailor, and his wife, Aimée Nathalie Josephe, née Landrin (d. 1917). The tailoring house of ...
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Cutler, Ann (1759–1794), hand-loom weaver and Methodist evangelist
Henry D. Rack
Cutler, Ann (1759–1794), hand-loom weaver and Methodist evangelist, was born in Thornley, near Longridge, in the parish of Chipping, Lancashire; nothing is known of her parents. After living a strict, moral life she was converted in 1785 by the revivalist Wesleyan William Bramwell...
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Dayus [née Greenhill; other married name Flood], Kate [pseud. Kathleen Dayus] (1903–2003), jewellery enameller and autobiographer
Carl Chinn
Dayus [née Greenhill; other married name Flood], Kate [pseud. Kathleen Dayus] (1903–2003), jewellery enameller and autobiographer, was born on the edge of Birmingham's jewellery quarter, at 20 Court 4 House, Camden Street, Hockley, on 1 February 1903, the fifth child of seven who survived infancy, to ...
