CLARK Ossie (Designer)

In this wild scene photographed at London's Chelsea Town Hall in 1970, Ossie Clark shows his clothes under the name Quorum, a company set up by Alice Pollock. It was, according to Vogue, "more a spring dance than a show". The spaced-out models wear Clark's chiffon dresses (each with a secret pocket into which a key and a £5 note would fit _ his trademark), both printed by his wife, textile designer Celia Birtwell. The couple were immortalized in a portrait entitled Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy by their friend, painter David Hockney, who can be seen on the far right of this picture. "I'm a master cutter. It's all in my brain and fingers", Clark had said, and that talent became one of the most sought-after in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Singer Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg, then the girlfriend of the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, shared an "Ossie" snakeskin suit, now one of the most precious reminders of the age. 

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