“I did some dressmaking for a while, making clothes for friends etc, and found there was a market there....We only had 20 styles, and we could only do made to order, there was no mass production. I was working all the time.”

The words of Amanda Wakeley, speaking about her own beginnings as a designer. I was thrilled to be listening to her, and was feverishly writing down her every word in my notebook. Sat in the seat in front of mine was Zandra Rhodes, dozing gently, her pink head nodding...

Read on:

 Amanda Wakeley - Getting Started

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