FOALE Marion & TUFFIN Sally (Foale & Tuffin) (Designers)

Wearing a miniskirt, the uniform of the time, Twiggy swings her fringed sleeves for Cecil Beaton in 1967. "We made Swinging Sixties clothes", says Marion Foale of the fashion company she set up in 1961 with Sally Tuffin. The pair were taught at the Royal College of Art by Janey Ironside, who was an influential force in British fashion. After graduating in 1961 and deciding that they didn't want to make "elderly clothes", the two designers set to work in their bedsits on a range of bright, fun dresses, skirts and tops. They were picked up by a London store that had established a "young" department, and David Bailey photographed Foale and Tuffin's clothes for Vogue just as London's "youthquake" movement took hold. They opened a shop on Carnaby Street and became allied to a group of British designers, including Mary Quant, dedicated to producing affordable fashion for teenage and twenty-something customers. 

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