Designers Collection

Coco Chanel
Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel (1883 - 1971), iconic French fashion designer, pictured by her car in fashionable Biarritz. Date: 1928

Mary Quant - British fashion designer and fashion icon
Mary Quant (1934- ), British fashion designer and fashion icon, she became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements

Tatler cover - Gabrielle Chanel & Alain Gerbault
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a snapshot taken at Eaton Hall, Cheshire seat of the Duke of Westminster, where Alain Gerbault, captain of the Firecrest and French lawn tennis star, was staying

Art Nouveau Embroidery
Four art nouveau embroidery designs by Ann Macbeth, one of the most gifted designers of the influential Glasgow School. Date: 1902

GREECE. Daphni. Dapni Monastery. Christ Pantocrator inside the dome (early Comnenian period, ca. 1100). Byzantine art. Mosaic

Ossie Clark
Raymond " Ossie" Clark (9 June 1942 6 August 1996), English fashion designer - major figure in the Swinging Sixties scene in London and the fashion industry in that era

China - Shanghai - Garden Bridge (Waibaidu Bridge)
China - Shanghai - The 2nd Garden Bridge (Waibaidu Bridge) over the Suzhou Creek, designed by the British firm Howarth Erskine Ltd. of Singapore. Replaced a number of earlier wooden versions

Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley

Stiebel / Amies / Hartnell
VICTOR STIEBEL Together with two other great British couturiers, Norman Hartnell and Hardy Amies

The Associated Fashion Designers of London - Express shoot
The Associated Fashion Designers of London - Victor Russell, Malcolm Peters, David Silverman, Ralph Bloomberg, Stephen Mono, Colin Radin, John Tyoran, Norman Hildebrand

The Associated Fashion Designers of London - Express shoot
The Associated Fashion Designers of London - Victor Russell, Malcolm Peters, David Silverman, Ralph Bloomberg, Stephen Mono, Colin Radin, John Tyoran, Norman Hildebrand

Astronomical Clock - Hampton Court Palace, London. Installed in 1540 on the gatehouse to the inner court. Designed by Nicholas Crazter and made by Nicholas Oursian

Summer Fashions of 1928 - Two charming Ascot Gowns designed by Norman Hartnell. On left, a chiffon dress combining new sorts of printed patterns with box pleated skirt and broad black leather belt

Imperial Airways Scylla Air Liner Saloon - flirst flight in 1934, retired in 1940. A British four-engined 39-seat biplane airliner designed and built by Short Brothers Date: circa 1935

Letter to Laura Francatelli, RMS Titanic survivor
White Star Line, RMS Titanic. Previously unseen letter dated 5th May 1938 on United Artists Studio Corporation, Hollywood notepaper to Titanic First Class passenger Laura Mabel Francatelli

W. F. Sedgwick Advertisement
An advertisement for W. F. Sedgwick Ltd, London based Engravers by all the processes, including photographers, designers and artists

Veale Gilchrist Advertisement
An advertisement page promoting the services of Veale Gilchrist Ltd, a London based company of artists, designers, illustrators and photographers for commercial art. Date: circa 1939

Versailles
A painting showing a finely dressed lady in a distinctive blue dress, walking the scenic gardens of Versailles in France, which were opened in 1624, by designers including Andre Le Ntre

The Empire, Leicester Square
This artwork shows The Empire, a variety theatre house in Leicester Square, London. The building was originally built in 1884 for theatre until 1927

Heal and Son Living Room
An advertisement photograph for Heal & Son, London based furniture and interior designers. The image promotes a range of cottage furniture inside a living room, including a plain oak dining table

Miniature Film Sets
Danish art director and costume designer Max Ree (1889-1953) works out possible camera angles with the help of miniature film sets

Smith & Julius Advertisement
Adv advertisement image for Smith & Julius Studios, advertisement designers directed by Sydney Ure Smith, Harry Julius and Albert Collins. Date: circa 1921

Henderson Hats Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Henderson Hats, R. C. Henderson Limited, designers and manufacturers of distinctive millinery

Norman Hartnell and Lady Willingdon
Norman Hartnell (1901-1979), fashion designer and dressmaker to the royal family, with Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon (1875-1960) at Aix-les-Bains. Date: 1939

Parisian-inspired female fashion: a horseshoe-collared silk coat from Balmain and an evening dress from Desses. Date: 1954

Advert for Rosebank Fabrics, available to order through local stores and furnishers. Date: 1954

Edward VII's yacht, Britannia
The Royal yacht, Britannia taken in 1909 during the reign of Edward VII. Originally commissioned by Edward when he was Prince of Wales from G

"A Mere Man, This Dress Question. I should be swathing, draping
" A Mere Man, This Dress Question. I should be swathing, draping and designing in diaphanous chiffons@A flamboyant dress designer admires his work. Date: 1929

Doris and Anna Zinkeisen at the theatre
Doris (left) and Anna Zinkeisen, artist sisters and designers, pictures at the opening night of " Waltzes in Vienna" at Alhambra Theatre in August 1931. Date: 1931

Phyllis Barron and her hand-block printing on stuffs
Phyllis Barron seen cutting her own hand blocks for printing fabrics. After leaving the Slade School, she began designing patterns for cretonne printers

Advert, C Bond & Son, Hair designers and Hairdressers
Advert, C Bond & Son, Artistic Hair Designers and Court Hairdressers, New Bond Street, London. 1897

Ada Peacock, theatrical dress designer
Ada Peacock, stage costume designer. Best known for designing for Charles B. Cochrans musicals and revues. Date: 1931

Winning poster design for LCC evening classes
G. Cranston Bogle, a young Yorkshire artist, receiving his prize for designing a poster to promote evening classes run by London County Council. He won the 50 prize over 800 entries

Doris Zinkeisen (1898-1991), Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist and writer. She was best known for her work in theatrical design

Anna Zinkeisen
Scottish artist Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901-1976), renowned as a painter, poster artist, illustrator and designer. Pictured with some designs for plaques for Wedgewood she carried out for the firm

Gladys Calthrop
Gladys Edith Mabel Calthrop (nÚÑáTreeby), (1894 -1980), artist and leading British stage designer. She is best known as the set and costume designer, best known for her collaborations

Motley - Elizabeth Montgomery, Sophia & Peggy Harris
Motley was the name of the theatre design firm made up of three English designers, sisters Margaret Harris (known as " Percy" ) (19042000) and Sophie Harris (19001966)

Princess Margaret with Christian Dior at Blenheim fashion sh
Princess Margaret talking to Christian Dior after a show of his winter collection at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. Margaret was a great fan of the French designer and wore many of his clothes

Anna Zinkeisen preparing designs for the Queen Mary
Anna Zinkeisen pictured at work in her studio on designs for a decorative scheme in the ballroom of the Queen Mary ocean liner. Date: 1935

Weir W-2, at RAF Hendon on 19 July 1951. G. & J. Weir of Cathcart in Glasgow were an established engineering company, founded in 1871, which built aircraft during the First World War

The Music Hall, New York Worlds Fair, New York, USA. Designed by Reinhard and Hofmeister in a modern style with an egg-shaped auditorium. Date: 1939

Norman Hartnell and dress designs, 1924
Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell (1901 - 1979), British couturier and favourite fashion designer of the Queen and Queen Mother. Pictured at the very start of his career in 1924 when he had just launched

Chanel tweed suit, 1929
A black and white tweed suit in Chanels inimitable manner, with fitted hips and pleated skirt. A narrow belt marks the waist line of the white gilet. Date: 1929

Coco Chanel and Grand Duchess Marie of Russia
An impression of royal Russian exile, Grand Duchess Marie being given a tour of Mademoiselle Chanels salon in Paris in the early 1920s

Guy Laroche (1921 - 1989), French fashion designer and founder of the eponymous fashion house. Son of a cattle farming family in La Rochelle

Model of the R. M. S. Queen Mary in a test tank, 1934
Photograph of an 18-foot model of the R.M.S. Queen Mary being tested in an experimental tank. The designers were seeing how the ship would cope with an Atlantic Gale when run at full speed

The Design Department of Raphael Tuck & Sons
The designing room at Raphael Tuck & Sons, fine art publishers of prints, cards, Almanacks and postcards, staffed largely by women

Victor Stiebel & Lady Pamela Berry
Two prominent figures in fashion attending the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers ball at Dartmouth House in February 1958

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