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Sally Tuffin (born 1938 in Sally Tuffin; Marion Foale
National Portrait Gallery, 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014. is an English fashion designer and
Having both been given sewing machines by their parents for their 21st birthdays and having spent £5 on a steam iron, they founded the ''
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Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
) National Portrait Gallery, 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014. is an English fashion designer and
ceramicist
Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts. Wh ...
who, with Marion Foale
Marion A Foale (born 13 March 1939 in Edmonton, London) is an English artist and fashion designer. With Sally Tuffin, she formed one half of the design team behind the 1960s fashion label Foale and Tuffin.
Born in London, Foale attended Ilford ...
, was half of ''Foale and Tuffin
Foale and Tuffin was an English fashion design business established in London in 1961 by Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin. The label became a part of the 1960s Swinging London scene.
Company history
The designers had both studied at the Royal Colle ...
'', the groundbreaking fashion label
Fashion design is the Art (skill), art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction and natural beauty to clothing and its Fashion accessory, accessories. It is influenced by culture and different trends, and has varied over time and plac ...
that was part of the "youthquake" movement in 1960s London.
Early life and education
Sally Tuffin is the daughter of a dressmaker mother and a printer and draughtsman father. She was educated atFriends' School
Friends schools are institutions that provide an education based on the beliefs and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). This article is a list of schools currently or historically associated with the Society of Friends, reg ...
, a progressive Quaker
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...
school in Saffron Walden
Saffron Walden is a market town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, north of Bishop's Stortford, south of Cambridge and north of London. It retains a rural appearance and some buildings of the medieval period. The population was 15, ...
.
Tuffin studied at Walthamstow College of Art
Walthamstow College of Art was an art school based in Walthamstow, north-east London. In the 1970s, it was merged into North East London Polytechnic and is now part of the University of East London (UEL). UEL's School of Architecture and the Vis ...
, where she became friends with Marion Foale, who was in the year below her. On graduating, they enrolled in 1959 on a fashion design diploma course at the Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offe ...
headed by Professor Janey Ironside
Janey Ironside (1919 – 6 April 1979)"Professor Janey Ironside", ''The Times'', 19 November 1979, p. IV. was professor of fashion at London's Royal College of Art, a position she held from 1956 to 1968. She was a key figure in enabling fashion t ...
.
Fashion designs
Having both been given sewing machines by their parents for their 21st birthdays and having spent £5 on a steam iron, they founded the ''Foale and Tuffin
Foale and Tuffin was an English fashion design business established in London in 1961 by Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin. The label became a part of the 1960s Swinging London scene.
Company history
The designers had both studied at the Royal Colle ...
'' label, for which they created a range of colourful and fun dresses, skirts and tops. These were sold through their own shop in Carnaby Street
Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in Soho in the City of Westminster, Central London. Close to Oxford Street and Regent Street, it is home to fashion and lifestyle retailers, including many independent fashion boutiques.
S ...
, and later through department stores. Foale and Tuffin were among the first designers to experiment with creating trousers for women that were "flattering, sexy garments".
Their friend James Wedge
James "Jimmy" Wedge (born 1939) is a British fashion designer, milliner, and fashion photographer.
Early life and education
Wedge was born into a poor working-class family. Having little education and never having taken an exam, he joined the Brit ...
helped them become established as designers and retailers. According to Tuffin, to make their clothes, they "worked on the billiards table in Jimmy Wedge's flat". According to Foale, Wedge had his offices in Ganton Street and told them about a place round the corner in Marlborough Court
Marlborough may refer to:
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* Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
** Marlborough College, public school
* Marlborough School, Woodstock in Oxfordshire, England
* The Marlborough Science Academy in Hertfordshire, England
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with a low rent. Soon, they needed more space, so Wedge found space for them above him, and when he moved out, they took over 4 Ganton Street in its entirety.
Ceramicist
Tuffin is now a ceramicist. In 1986Moorcroft
W. Moorcroft Limited (trading as W Moorcroft Ltd) is a British art pottery manufacturer based at Burslem in Stoke-on-Trent, England. The company was founded by William Moorcroft in 1913.
History
In 1897, Staffordshire pottery manufacture ...
, Europe's last independent art pottery, was rescued by Maureen and Hugh Edwards together with Sally Tuffin and her husband Richard Dennis, a former art dealer. Sally became Art Director of the firm and designed ceramics for them from 1987 to 1997. Her numerous designs include: ''Balloons'', ''Bramble'', ''Peacock'' and ''Rain Forest''. Sally Tuffin and Richard Denis left the firm in 1992, since when Maureen and Hugh Edwards have been the sole owners.
Sally Tuffin and Richard Dennis now run the independent pottery Dennis Chinaworks.
See also
*Mary Quant
Dame Barbara Mary Quant, Mrs Plunket Greene, (born 11 February 1930)The Mary Quant exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2019-20 stated her year of birth as 1930, and that she became a student at Goldsmiths College around 1950. is a ...
References
External links
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