Dame Zandra Rhodes, Bantam Books and Ella Alexander launched Iconic at The Dorchester, London on 18 July 2024.
Guests such as Pam Hogg, Penelope Tree, Richard E Grant, Sarah Mower and Suzy Menkes joined Zandra at The Holford and Orchid Rooms at The Dorchester to toast to her first ever memoir which launched today, 18 July 2024, titled ICONIC: 50 Years of Fashion In 50 Objects, co-written by Ella Alexander and published Bantam Books. Guests drank Perrier-Jouet and Monkey 47 ‘Zandra’ cocktails and were treated to a live-reading of extracts from ICONIC by Zandra herself.
ICONIC is an insightful and vibrant memoir, where Zandra shares her story for the first time. Told through a variety of mementos and curiosities collected over the course of her eight decades, it is a vibrant and colourful account filled with rockstars and royalty. But alongside those life-changing friendships with legends like Karl Lagerfeld and Divine, she offers poignant reflections on her personal triumphs and tragedies, as well as the fears, sacrifices and pressures that come with being an era-defining designer.
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