In addition to clothing design, she designed textiles for interiors, using Zandra Rhodes prints on furniture and home furnishings.
Many fashion designers are typical introverts who have difficulty communicating and adore the color black. Zandra Rhodes is an exception to this rule. It is difficult to find a more cheerful and friendly person in the fashion world than this 80-year-old woman with pink hair, bright blue eyeshadow and a perpetual smile on her face.
Her obsession with bright colors manifested itself very early. Perhaps it was a reaction to the feeling of loneliness that Zandra experienced as a child, when she had no friends.
Her youth fell on the 60s. At the art college where she studied, she was praised for her boldness and creativity, but for the general public her explosive palette seemed too innovative and eccentric. But in the 70s, the bright colors and abundant decor that Zandra often used to decorate her models were in demand.
By the beginning of the 80s, Rhodes had become a real icon of British fashion. Princess Diana wore her clothes (though not as bright as the artist herself, but in soft pastel colors). Zandra created several stage outfits for Freddie Mercury. For example, his famous pleated blouse “bat” was originally part of a women’s wedding dress designed by Zandra.
Zandra was never interested in momentary fashion trends – she always had her own style and her own aesthetics, which had more to do with art than with fashion itself. And this aesthetics surrounds the artist everywhere – first of all, in her London home, where the Museum of Fashion and Textiles, created by her, is located on the lower floors, and she herself lives upstairs in the penthouse.
