Anna Sui made my braces, frizzy hair and shapeless outfits seem even more unpalatable. Womanhood became this distant, untouchably glamorous thing.Of course, I also loved the afternoons I spent at Mary’s Brompton Cross studio in London and I feel privileged to have even been there.
No designer’s work is as synonymous with the boldness of youth as Mary’s. She emerged on the scene in 1955 when, aged 25, she opened a boutique on the King’s Road at a time when Dior’s hourglass New Look silhouettes were the trend of the moment.
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