Antony Price
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Antony Price
For other people named Anthony Price, see Anthony Price (disambiguation).
| Antony Price | |
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| Born | 1945 Keighley, Yorkshire, England |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Education | Bradford School of Art, Royal College of Art |
| Occupation | Fashion designer |
| Known for | evening wear, suits, melding fashion with rock |
| Awards | Evening Glamour Award (British Fashion Awards) |
| Labels | Antony Price (Topman) |
Antony Price is a London fashion designer best known for evening wear and suits. He has collaborated with a number of high-profile musicians, including David Bowie, Steve Strange, and Duran Duran, but especially Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music, whose look was defined by Price's designs.[1][2] The manner in which Price dressed – or in many cases, undressed – the "Roxy girls" on the covers of their albums helped to define the band’s pop retro-futurism. More recently, Price has been noted for dressing celebrities such as Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Patsy Kensit, Anjelica Huston,[3] Jerry Hall and Camilla Parker Bowles.[4]
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Early life and education
Price was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, England in 1945, and grew up Selside in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. He was educated at Eshton Hall School for Boys in Gargrave, Yorkshire. In 1961, At the age of 16, he gained entrance to the Bradford School of Art – now the Bradford School of Arts and Media Studies – completing a one year General Art and Design course, followed by specialising for three years in Womenswear Fashion. In 1965 he entered the Royal College of Art's Fashion School in London where he completed a three year course – two years in Womenswear Fashion, and the final year and degree show in Menswear Fashion. Price credits his time at the Bradford School as invaluable in preparing him for the Royal College, saying: "I arrived at the Royal College of Art with a total headstart and was able to whip my own show together."[5]
Career
While Price was working for the Stirling Cooper label in 1967, he designed the clothes for The Rolling Stones' 1969 American Tour. He was the stylist for Roxy Music's first eight albums, as well as the back cover for Lou Reed's Transformer album.[citation needed] The back photo is not, as some believe, Reed posing with an erection, but a model with a cucumber down his trousers, wearing a pair of Price's 'Arse' pants, created by running horseshoe seam across the outline of the haunches. When customers complained of the baggy crotches of the trousers in her 'Pirate' collection, Vivienne Westwood retorted 'Well go to Antony Price then!'[citation needed] His self-declared trademark design is a spiral-zipped dress in ciré satin, created for the label Plaza in the late seventies. This was worn in a Harpers and Queen feature in 1979 by Amanda Lear, who was also the Price-dressed covergirl for Roxy Music's 1973 album For Your Pleasure.
Price worked for the Stirling Cooper, Che Guevara and Plaza labels in London before launching his own label in 1979. Stirling Cooper was situated in London's Wigmore Street, and had a noted oriental interior designed by Price and Jane Whiteside. Price's own shops were located in South Molton Street and on the King's Road. He also operated a shop called 'Ebony' in the 1980s.
In 1982 Price collabrated with the British band Duran Duran, designing pastel silk tonic suits for the "Rio" video.[6] beginning a style trend among the "New Romantics". Two years later, Price staged a 'Fashion Spectacular' at London's Hippodrome, combining fashion and rock music. "I'm partly responsible for the marriage of rock and fashion," Price said in 1998, "When I started out, rock people thought fashion people were snobby and fashion people though the music industry grubby and dirty."[7]
Price has declared that 'I'm not a fashion designer ... I'm in the theatrical business,' and for Fashion Aid in 1985 he conceived of a presentation of model, client and long-standing friend Jerry Hall emerging from a black velvet box. The outfit consisted of a bolero and dress with lampshade peplum in metallic and red French silk lace over lamé. Price has said of this outfit 'It wasn't the chicest or most subtle garment, but when Jerry moved under the lights she looked like a Siamese fighting fish in a vast blue tank.'
Price received the 'Evening Glamour Award' from the British Fashion Council in 1989,[8] and was profiled in British Vogue the same year. In 1998, he collaborated with milliner Philip Treacy for his show at London Fashion Week, and continued to collaborate on subsequent Treacy shows in London and Paris. He was also widely considered to be a frontrunner in the search to replace Gianni Versace after that designer's untimely death.[3][7]
In 2000, Price opened his own shop again in Chelsea and created evening gowns constructed of carpet to feature in the advertising campaigns of British carpet manufacturer Brintons, a commission previously undertaken by Vivienne Westwood. In 2000 he also created clothing for Glenalmond Tweed, along with 25 other British designers including Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Margaret Howell, and in 2003 he was among a number of British designers who created gowns for Pamela Anderson when she hosted the British Fashion Awards that year.[4]
Price was nominated for the British Fashion Council's 'Red Carpet Designer Award' at the 2006 British Fashion Awards, and a small range of his clothes sell in London boutique 'A La Mode'. He was featured in the fashion magazines Pop and Butt in spring 2005. In December 2006, Price was photographed by David Bailey for British Vogue alongside Christopher Kane. Price has worked with Daphne Guinness in developing a range of key shirt and tailoring designs for her eponymous clothing line, which is currently sold in London's Dover Street Market.
Today, Price continues to work from his home in the English countryside, creating made-to-measure clothing for an elite clientele, including the Duchess of Cornwall.[9] In May 2012, he dressed actor Tilda Swinton for his appearance in drag for the cover of Candy magazine, described as "the first fashion magazine completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, crossdressing and androgyny in all their glory."[10]
See also
References
- Notes
- ^ Iley, Chrissy (17 April 2008). "Return of the dandy". Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/apr/17/fashion.popandrock. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
- ^ "Jerry Hall talks to Anthony Price". http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/tag/antony-price/. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
- ^ a b Blanchard, Tamsin. "After the hype, British fashion lures the serious money" The Independent (4 February 1998)
- ^ a b Alexander, Hilary and Woolcock, Nicola. "Pamela Anderson to front 'fashion Oscars'" The Daily Telegraph (September 4, 2003)
- ^ "Antony Price" on 175 Heroes at Bradford College
- ^ Nika, Coleen. "Duran Duran Toast to the Glamour of 'Rio,' 30 Years Later" Rolling Stone (May 3, 2012)
- ^ a b Blanchard, Tamsin. "Fashion: Price is right for the house that Gianni built" The Independent (11 February 1998)
- ^ Hochswender, Woody. "In London, Subway Style Above Ground" New York Times (October 19, 1989)
- ^ "Antony Price, the man who redesigned the Duchess of Cornwall". Telegraph. 04 October 2008. http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG3365628/Antony-Price-the-man-who-redesigned-the-Duchess-of-Cornwall.html. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
- ^ Zak, Dan. "The Style Blog:Tilda Swinton on the cover of Candy magazine" Washington Post (May 23, 2012)
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