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Zandra Rhodes looks back: ‘Freddie Mercury was wonderful, but dressing Zsa Zsa Gabor was awful’
The fashion designer on early creativity, her celebrity clients and moving on after cancer
Known for her bold, outlandish use of colours and prints, she has dressed royalty and pop culture’s most famous, from Princess Diana to Debbie Harry. She was a lecturer at the Medway College of Art, so I’d get to try on dramatic clothes there, but wouldn’t dare wearing them in front of the other children at my school. Go and say hello!” Diana took one look at this vision of a woman with green hair, like some kind of hippy, and said: “If you come one step nearer I will shut this door down on you.” I rushed back into the car.
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