Back to the Fuschia ; Queen of Punk Zandra Rhodes Was the Toast of Seventies Fashion. But Her Star Waned in the Eighties and Nineties. Now a Major Retrospective has Put Her Back On Centre Stage. Post Style Editor Caroline Foulkes Takes a Look at a Design Icon.

Birmingham Post › February 02, 2005

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Zandra Rhodes may be a pensioner, she may have had a hip replacement, but there's nothing remotely old or grey about her. There never has been.

It's not surprising really - she had a good teacher.

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Back to the Fuschia ; Queen of Punk Zandra Rhodes Was the Toast of Seventies Fashion. But Her Star Waned in the Eighties and Nineties. Now a Major Retrospective has Put Her Back On Centre Stage. Post Style Editor Caroline Foulkes Takes a Look at a Design Icon.

Zandra was born in 1940 in Chatham, Kent. Now Chatham is not the kind of place you normally find exotic birds of paradise, so Zandra stuck out like a sore thumb, often being chased through the park by...

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