F🧷💄🌸 Yeah, Zandra Rhodes

Celebrating the work of the veteran British fashion and print designer

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Valentino x Zandra Rhodes ‘Lunar Punk’ print.

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"It's my rainbow penthouse, on top of a pink and orange museum building."

"I collect stones from wherever I go in the world so I have a collection of stones, which is quite wonderful."

"I think colour makes you feel happy. You know, I was once given a challenge of wearing black every day for a week. I did feel somewhat funereal, it didn't last very long..."

"I got Andrew Logan to make me a special mirrored frame for my tv so it just looked like another picture on the wall, so i could live in paradise"

"Don't let the world crush you down and say don't do something because then you'll never get anywhere. You've always got people who would tell you you're not doing it right. Follow what you want to do and try your hardest, and in the end, something will happen because you're leading the way in something."

Wore my Zandra Rhodes dress (I got a few years ago for £25 in a second hand/charity shop, yaas!) for the first time last week. Been waiting for appropriate vibe/event/weather for it's debut even though it's not that fancy, but it put me in this kind of pink mood 💗

Remember going to the museum one of the last times I was in London. Love that she collects stones too - an all round good egg.

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Evening Dress

Zandra Rhodes

1972

The MET

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Zandra Rhodes x Fluevog, AW23

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Dream Shell mini dress, Oceanus x Zandra Rhodes, 2025

'Zandra’s 'Seashells’ design, originally from 1972, has been redeveloped for this special collection... This is the first time Zandra has explored beading since her infamous beaded collections of the 1980’s, and the prints have been reworked exclusively for Oceanus.'

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Grey denim ra-ra dress by Zandra Rhodes, 1987

From her AW87 collection, 'If You Wish Upon A Star' ($1,100, 1stdibs).

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Zandra Rhodes' new autobiography, Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects, is out now.

'In this insightful memoir, Zandra shares her life story for the first time. Told through a variety of mementos collected over the years, it is a vibrant account filled with rockstars and royalty, of life-changing friendships and poignant reflections on her personal triumphs and tragedies, as well as the fears, sacrifices and pressures that come with being an era-defining designer.

Full of poignant reflections and life lessons on achieving success while defying convention, Zandra takes the reader right alongside her as she recounts being inspired by her avant-garde mother to her time at the Royal College, from a road trip to Rome with Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell, to opening her first London store thanks to a kind loan from Vanessa Redgrave with Joe Cocker singing With a Little Help From My Friends, from hanging out with Andy Warhol and Halston in New York's Studio 54 to lifelong friendships with legends such as Karl Lagerfeld and Diana Vreeland; from designing for everyone from Freddie Mercury to Diana Ross, Princess Diana to Barbra Streisand to founding the Fashion and Textile Museum.

Capturing the rich and unexpected life of a British icon, this memoir explores what it is to defy the norm.'

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Drag icon Divine wearing a Zandra Rhodes toga dress photo by Peter Warner 1980 (pic via @ Zandra_Rhodes on Twitter)

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Jersey dress by Sylvia Ayton and Zandra Rhodes, 1966-68.

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Clive Arrowsmith - Dress by Zandra Rhodes (Vogue UK 1970)

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Clive Arrowsmith - Dress by Zandra Rhodes (Vogue UK 1972)

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Shirt by Zandra Rhodes and Sylvia Ayton, The Sunday Times, 16 June 1968, from Photographing Fashion: British Style in the Sixties by Richard Lester (2009)

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Dress

Zandra Rhodes, 1980s

The FIDM Museum

Green means nature.

Central Florida Emergency Trans Care Fund

Equality Florida

ACLU Florida

Tampa Bay Abortion Fund

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Fashion designer Zandra Rhodes’ penthouse is an explosion of art and color.  With her trademark pink hair, blue eye shadow and theatrical outfits, her home is every bit as vibrant and colorful as she is and reflects her extraordinary talent.

Zandra lives in a penthouse apartment above the Fashion and Textiles Museum which she founded, and her design studio is on the floor below.  

She had the entire open plan living space painted like a rainbow when she first moved in, drawing lines for the colors herself with chalk and commissioning a tile company to create the swirling colored floor.

Several pieces of art by Andrew Logan are on display including mosaic busts of Zandra, colorful lamps and an enormous mirrored sculpture of Ghandi.

A small vibrant blue kitchen is part of the open space. Delicate pastel dishes are on display, along with more deeply colored ones.

Chairs in the shape of Zs, originally created for Zandra’s flagship stores in the 1970s, are dotted around, while a mannequin called Ethel oversees proceedings, resplendent in Zandra’s original designs.

Bright red dining room.

No serenity in this bedroom- it’s as bright as the rest of the home.

Down to the studio on the floor below.

Part of the labyrinth of rooms in the studio. 

Library holding lots of design books, some fabric samples and color, color, color.

The exterior of the penthouse is pink, of course.

http://theinteriorsedit.com/

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'Field of Lilies' dress by Zandra Rhodes, 1970s

The 'Field of Lilies' print first appeared in 1973 and includes handwritten words and phrases, including the designer's signature.

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Zandra Rhodes' home tour

Architectural Digest, April 1978

Photographed by Derry Moore