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Iconic
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  • Published: 18 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529937114
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $40.00

Iconic

My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects

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Paperback
30 Sept 2025
EBook
18 July 2024
Audiobook
18 July 2024
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Insightful, gossip-filled memoir from legendary British fashion designer renowned for colourful, intricate designs who dressed everyone from rockstars to royalty.

Dame Zandra Rhodes has spent her life rallying against what was expected of her, both as a designer and a woman. Often perceived as too bold for the mainstream, she fought for creativity and individuality, and continues to achieve both in everything she does.

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

Capturing the rich and unexpected life of a British icon, this memoir explores what it is to defy the norm.
  • Published: 18 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529937114
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the author

Zandra Rhodes

Dame Zandra Rhodes has been a leading figure of the fashion industry for over five decades, celebrating her 50th year in fashion in September 2019 with a retrospective exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, which she founded. Her skill as a print designer, perfection of the art-of-print as an intrinsic influence on garment shape and affinity for colour has resulted in a signature aesthetic that is undeniably unique and continues to stand the test of time. She has dressed some of the world’s most stylish men and women from Freddie Mercury, Elizabeth Taylor and Diana Ross to Bianca Jagger, Debbie Harry and Princess Diana. She has also created costumes, winning an Emmy Award in the process. She has appeared in multiple television shows, from the cult series Absolutely Fabulous to Masterchef and The Real Marigold Hotel. In 2015, she was made a Dame in recognition of her contribution to fashion and textiles.

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Praise for Iconic

'The most extraordinary designer of her generation. This is a book that everybody would be absolutely taken by.'

Manolo Blahnik, CBE

'Zandra Rhodes is a living legend and her inspirational work in fashion, deeply woven into the cultural and musical fabric of the last 50 years, is still as potent and fresh as ever. This book detailing her fascinating life and development as an artist cannot fail to ignite interest all around the world.'

Brian May, CBE