FARHI Nicole (Designer)

Easy, wearable, comfortable linen is the fabric most associated with the work of Nicole Farhi. When she launched her label in 1983, Farhi's clothes became the epitome of understated fashion for women _ all based on what she likes to wear. They are not intended to make major fashion statements. Instead, they drift with the differing times, staying in touch with them but always bearing the wearer in mind. Farhi described herself in the Guardian as "a feminist in a soft way", and her clothes appeal to women who are looking for approachable tailoring and casual clothes that have Farhi's own dressed-up European attitude. Farhi studied fashion in Paris and freelanced for de Castelbajac before moving to Britain in 1973 to design for the French Connection chain. In 1989 she introduced menswear to the Farhi label, blending British tailoring and her European unstructured style. 

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