Zandra Rhodes and Anna Sui put their friendship on full display Friday at the Initiative in Art and Culture’s “Blue” forum.
For some designers, mutual admiration amounts to a compliment in passing, but
She continued, “Really and truly I don’t like to fit on a model. A model will make a sack look OK. It’s better to fit it on someone, who doesn’t stand very well. Then you think, ‘That dress has got to be made to work.’ Because people go into a dressing room, look in a mirror, and say, ‘What does this dress do for me?’”
Rhodes, meanwhile, started out by getting a little studio, building a nine-yard table with her boyfriend, and then making and printing all of the screens. Even today all of Rhodes’ designs are hand-printed in her London studio, as was the case with the black dress that Sui wore to Friday’s event. Her entry into fashion took some work though.
Sui, meanwhile, landed a job, while still at Parsons The New School, and then worked for a few big companies, including one that owned Henri Bendel. A Zandra Rhodes dress was one of her first purchases, after earning a paycheck. The first fashion show Sui attended was one Rhodes held at Circle in the Square. “We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. We saw an ad in New York magazine. You could buy a ticket for $35.
Sui’s first retrospective was originally staged at the Fashion and Textile Museum. “It wouldn’t have happened unless I was so obsessed with Zandra. I would go to the museum every time that I was in London,” added Sui, noting how the museum’s director [Celia Joicey] suggested she stage a show there after running into each other and sharing a coffee.
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