"He was among the first to combine music, theatre and fashion, helping to craft Roxy Music's glam rock aesthetic and designing Duran Duran's yacht rock tailoring a decade later. More recently, he became Queen Camilla's go-to designer. Often described as the greatest designer you've never heard of, Price only ever staged six shows or fashion extravaganzas in his 55-year career but just last month returned to the London catwalk for the first time in more than 30 years with a show in collaboration with 16Arlington."
"During his heyday in the 1970s, his shop in London's World's End, with its dark blue glass front, was the ultra-glamorous counterpoint to Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's Sex boutique further up Kings Road. The broadcaster Janet Street-Porter once described his clothes as result-wear a modern definition of corseted, hyper-sexy glamour that blurred Rita Hayworth styling with futuristic technicolour, and helped a generation of musicians become bona fide style icons."
"His first job in menswear at Stirling Cooper on London's Wigmore Street led to him cutting Mick Jagger's buttoned trousers worn on the Rolling Stones' American Gimme Shelter tour in 1969. He went on to style Roxy Music's eight album covers, with Bryan Ferry calling him a master craftsman, creating extravagant pin-up looks for the Roxy girls Amanda Lear, Jerry Hall and Kari-Ann Muller who starred on the sleeves."
Antony Price was a maverick British designer and theatrical image-maker who fused music, theatre and fashion to shape glam-rock and later yacht-rock tailoring. He was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, trained at the Royal College of Art and began menswear work at Stirling Cooper, cutting Mick Jagger’s buttoned trousers for the Rolling Stones’ 1969 US tour. Price styled eight Roxy Music album covers and created pin-up looks for Amanda Lear, Jerry Hall and Kari‑Ann Muller, then worked with Duran Duran and David Bowie. His World's End shop in the 1970s epitomised ultra-glamour. He staged only six shows in 55 years yet remained a sought-after designer, including for Queen Camilla, and returned to the London catwalk with 16Arlington.
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