Malcolm Hall (born Malcolm Halter, on 14 December 1947), is a British fashion designer, known for his flamboyant, tailored suits in velvets, satins, silks and brocades.

Celebrity following

Launched in 1972, the Malcolm Hall label quickly gained a celebrity following. Malcolm Hall suits were worn by

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, according to Simon Sheridan's ''The Complete ABBA''. The ''Retro Gallery'' at MalcolmHall.net displays photographs of rock musicians wearing Malcolm Hall clothes as shown in the table.MalcolmHall.net Retrospective Gallery
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'' auction.

National recognition

The

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's collection theme ''"Recycled Fashion"'' explains "Fashion in the early 1970s built on the decorative freedom of the later sixties to produce a riot of vibrantly patterned extravagant clothing for both men and women...English designers like ... Malcolm Hall ... produced superbly tailored and yet imaginative outfits for their wealthier London male clientele". The

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's national collection ''"Theatre Costume"'' includes a "Painted satin and gold cord" stage costume made by Malcolm Hall for

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, the flamboyant guitarist of rock group

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(and donated by Page to the museum); the costume, a suit in ivory-coloured satin, is "known as the 'Egyptian' costume because of the symbols prominent on the back of the satin jacket" – the "Eye of Thoth", "Nut (noot), Goddess of the sky"; a winged disk which "some believe ... is based on the appearance of the sun's corona during a solar eclipse." The museum concludes "the ivory satin costume itself would have been highly eye-catching; Page's wild performance style was reflected in his stage outfits."

Manufacturing

As well as his shop in London W1, Malcolm Hall ran a manufacturing operation from his

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factory, supplying stores worldwide with his ready-to-wear clothes. According to the Malcolm Hall website, the company today still ''"creates exquisite, rock-inspired, suits in velvets, satins, leathers, silks, denims, and rich brocades, which are shipped internationally."''

Recent developments

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and

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. More recently, Malcolm Hall has been working with private customers in bridal and women's evening wear, as well as relaunching his label with a new rock-inspired collection of suits.''New collection'
Malcolm Hall's style gallery
Malcolm Hall serves as expert "consultant fashion designer" to tailoring tutors TutorCouture.

Bibliography

* Catherine Walker. ''An Autobiography by the Private Couturier to Diana, Princess of Wales'', HarperCollins, 1998. * Simon Sheridan, ''The Complete Abba'', Reynolds & Hearn, 2009.

References

External links

*
Malcolm Hall London website
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