Hello I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1983 and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week our cast away is the fashion designer Sandra Rhodes.

Sandra I think we'll start with today Miss Rhodes is wearing and you'll help me and correct me if I go wrong.

Okay.

Now from the top, here, it's usually pink, but it's got deeper, isn't it?

Well, I sort of had the tips painted black.

I thought I'd try and look different in New York York last week and I had all the tips painted black.

So it's pale pink with black tips.

Right.

And makeup?

Make up, well, I took my eyebrows off in 1971 and they've never grown back again so I draw

little lines on that look like fake eyebrows I think they look exactly like

eyebrows but someone said I look like something out of cats once and And your dress Lacy? It's suede that's been printed in one of my designs and

then little holes punched in between the pattern and little flowers made out of suede and then it's a sort of checked wall.

It's one of my day dresses.

The collar rather Puritan style.

Oh, I never think of myself as Puritan style, but I if it's this it's a big diamond with my head

sort of shaped in the middle and then sort of it's a loose smock type dress and I've got grey boots with bits tied round them.

And accessories?

You have no accessories.

You're not wearing a jewelry.

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