English Heritage acknowledges. “Jean Muir is one of the finest dressmakers Britain has ever produced, creating ageless and instantly recognisable pieces of clothing.
She was a remarkable businesswoman, instrumental in promoting the British fashion industry and crafts. She also influenced later designers including Manolo Blahnik and Issey Miyake”.If the word dressmaker seems like a demotion, it’s the description she herself preferred, according to Lumley. “She called herself a dressmaker.
The French said she was the best dressmaker of a generation”.Everything about Miss Muir, as everyone called her, (more shades of Spark and her most famous novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) could be summed up as the avoidance of unnecessary.
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