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Magenta dress with glass bead bee motif embroiled at the yoke, Bill Gibb, 1976.

Collection of the Aberdeen Art Museum & Gallery

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Jacquard-Knit Cardigan, Short Sleeve Sweater, and Shawl designed by Bill Gibb for sale through the magazine English publication Women’s Journal ca. 1980

This picture illustrates the true colors of the garments (a pale lemon yellow, and darker charcoal gray, with bands of pastel pink and blue at edges) as well as a reoccurring phenomenon where sellers have cut the “for Women’s Journal” from the label to increase the sales price.

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The complete ensemble with the missing skirt, as documented by the Aberdeen Art Museum & Gallery

Fur coat with embroidered leather yoke, Bill Gibb, 1978.

Collection of the Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.

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Charcoal wool skirt suit with lizard skin appliqué and trim, Bill Gibb, 1972.

Collection of the Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.

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Alice Ormsby-Gore in Bill Gibb for Baccarat. Photo by Tessa Traeger. Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Vogue, “Fashions in Living”, January 1970.

In the great rainbow garden of patchworks, patchworks to wear and for eating and sitting on. The suit, a maxiskirt of caramel suede soft as chamois, a chamois suede jacket appliqued with patent and leather piece over piece, with leather thongs and Indian beads sewn together to decorate the sleeves. The shape is mediaeval, trumpet sleeved and tiny bodiced there’s a matching kepi with five-foot leather streamers. Bill Gibb designed this; it’s made to order at Baccarat. Lady Anne Tree’s patchwork tablecloth is a giant circle of hexagons in a thousand and one rose, red and pink prints—bandanas, polka dots, checks and cherries—made in traditional manner with paper cut to the hexagons, stitched, then the basting removed to release the paper. Lined and edged with a heavy woollen fringe. The multitudes of patchwork crochet cushions are in multitudes of sun and chrysanthemum colours, some knit or enormous needles. 3½ gns each, at Women’s Home Industries.