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Northampton Fashion Designer

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East Anglian Film Archive at the University of East Anglia

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Northampton Fashion Designer (About Anglia)

East Anglian Film Archive at the University of East Anglia
Northampton
14 Feb 1984
Sound

Andrea Wilkin, Northampton fashion designer, has just opened her own shop in London.

In her Northampton shop, fashion designer Andrea Wilkin is surrounded by romantic wedding dresses created by staff in her workshop. A model Ricarda wears a full-skirted meringue of a wedding dress as Andrea mentions Princess Diana's influence in bringing back the romantic look and boosting British fashion design, attracting overseas customers. A ball gown in Edwardian style is followed by a short-skirted cocktail dress, and another full dress aptly called 'Pavlova' - all made in fine fabrics with flamboyant frills, pleats and button detail. The reporter was John Kiddey for this video filmed to be shown on Valentine's Day in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme 'About Anglia'.

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Fashion takes enormous strides forward in 20th century Britain.

From the Tudor court to the Georgian dandy, Britain has long cultivated a passion for fashion, but the late 20th century saw things step up a gear. New generations of talent emerged, whose idiosyncratic style democratised fashion for a younger crowd and helped sell ‘Cool Britannia’ to the world - long before that term was coined. In the 1960s, progress was catalysed by the ‘Swinging London’ of Biba and Mary Quant, followed by the Punk movement a decade later. Designers drew inspiration not just from contemporary subcultures but also from established craft traditions across the UK – in some cases helping to revive cottage industries at risk of dying out. The dawn of the 1980s saw the rise of avant-garde pioneers (Zandra Rhodes, Vivienne Westwood), reimagined Savile Row tailoring (Tommy Nutter) and the upscale yet quintessentially British chic of Jean Muir and Bruce Oldfield – a favourite of Diana, Princess of Wales, who gifted British fashion a truly global platform.

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