Annette Worsley-Taylor (2 July 1944 – 24 August 2015) was a British fashion entrepreneur and the founder of London Fashion Week. She was born on 2 July 1944, the only child of Sir John Godfrey Worsley-Taylor, 3rd Baronet. She was educated at

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. In 1975, she founded The London Designer Collections to promote young and emerging British fashion designers. In the

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, she received an MBE "for services to London Fashion Week". She died on 24 August 2015.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Worsley-Taylor, Annette 1944 births 2015 deaths British fashion Members of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Downe House School