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'''Antony Price''' is a London [[fashion designer]] who is best known for evening wear and suits. Price has collaborated with a number of musical performers, including [[David Bowie]], [[Steve Strange]], and [[Duran Duran]], but is best known for his close working relationship with [[Bryan Ferry]] and [[Roxy Music]], whose respective 'looks' were defined by Price's designs. |
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The manner in which Price dressed – or in many cases, undressed – the Roxy girls served to define the band’s trademark pop retro-futurism. |
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While working for Stirling Cooper in 1967, Price designed the clothes for [[The Rolling Stones]]' [[The Rolling Stones American Tour 1969|1969 American Tour]]. He was the stylist for Roxy Music's first eight albums, as well as the classic album cover for [[Lou Reed]]'s ''[[Transformer (album)|Transformer]]''. The back photo is not, as many suspect, Lou posing with an erection, but a model with a cucumber down his trousers, wearing a pair of famous Antony Price 'Arse' pants, created by running horseshoe seam across the outline of the haunches. When customers complained of the baggy crotches of trousers in her 'Pirate' collection, [[Vivienne Westwood]] retorted 'Well go to Antony Price then!' 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]]. |
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Price worked under the labels Stirling Cooper, Che Guevara and Plaza in London before launching his own label in 1979. Stirling Cooper was situated in London's Wigmore Street, with a famous oriental interior designed by Price and [[Jane Whiteside]], and Plaza on the King's Road. Price had his own-name shops in South Molton Street and on the King's Road, and also operated a shop called 'Ebony' in the 1980s. |
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In 1983 Price staged a 'Fashion Spectacular' at London's Hippodrome, combining fashion and music, and allowing the public to purchase tickets. He was helped by relatively unknown Lisa Ferrari. This show was an innovative way of bringing fashion to the fore. In 1985, continuing to live up to his own declaration that 'I'm not a fashion designer... I'm in the theatrical business,' Antony Price created an outfit for Fashion Aid, and conceived a presentation of model, client and long-standing friend [[Jerry Hall]] emerging from a black velvet box. The outfit, consisting 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.' |
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Antony Price received the 'Glamour' award from the [[British Fashion Council]] in 1990, and was profiled in British [[Vogue (magazine)|''Vogue'']] the same year. In 1998, Antony Price collaborated with milliner [[Philip Treacy]] on clothing for his show at London Fashion Week, and continued to collaborate on subsequent Treacy shows in London and Paris. In 2000, Antony Price had 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 Vivienne Westwood, [[Alexander McQueen]] and [[Margaret Howell]]. |
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Today Antony 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]]. He 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. |
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Antony Price was featured in the fashion magazines [[Pop (fashion magazine)|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 The Hon 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]]. |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.antonyprice.com Antony Price Website] |
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