Zandra Rhodes: Self-belief, workaholics, and sentimental hoarding
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Would you describe yourself as a workaholic? Fashion designer Zandra Rhodes has an insatiable sense of drive that’s fuelled her iconic career since the 1960s.
In this chat with Fearne, Zandra is honest about how she threw herself into work as a way to cope with things like the death of the love of her life, and her own cancer diagnosis.
Zandra is very clear that we need our own sense of creativity, colour, and vibrancy in life. She explains why it’s so vital to have self-belief, and how to make sure you’re not compromising your own values and style for other people.
There’s also the story of when Zandra was carted away in a police car for growing marijuana...
Zandra’s book, Iconic: My Life in 50 Objects, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Fern Cotton, and this is Happy Place, the show that encourages you to ditch the crowd and follow your own trends. |
| 0:08.5 | Today I'm chatting to Dame Zandra Rhodes. |
| 0:11.5 | I think we should dress up. |
| 0:13.1 | I think it helps your life. |
| 0:15.0 | I think it makes you face the world. |
| 0:17.0 | It's very funny, I mean, I must have been born |
| 0:18.9 | with a very thick skin, because someone once said to me, |
| 0:22.0 | doesn't it upset you that people look at you all the time |
| 0:24.8 | and I actually think I just go through with blinkers on |
| 0:28.1 | and don't always notice. |
| 0:29.6 | I think it's that you've got to follow your beliefs |
| 0:32.4 | and keep going in whatever you do. |
| 0:35.1 | The adventures take you up and down and they've taken me to wonderful places and I don't feel like giving up. |
| 0:41.2 | Zandra is an iconic fashion designer, |
| 0:44.0 | known for her fabulously bold and colourful prints. |
| 0:47.6 | She burst onto the fashion scene in the late 1960s |
| 0:51.2 | and was dubbed the princess of punk. I love it so much. She's dressed |
| 0:56.3 | international stars including Freddie Mercury, Diana Ross, Barbara Streisand and |
| 1:01.6 | Princess Diana. |
| 1:03.6 | In fact, you're going to want to have Google at the ready to look up some of the incredible |
| 1:07.7 | people that Zandra name drops during this chat. |
| 1:10.4 | Honestly, you're going to go down an absolute rabbit hole of glitz and glamour. |
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