Bonnie Cashin - U.S. designer specialising in Chinese styles, leather, canvas and suede with ethnic influences, best known for popularising the 'poncho'.

Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel - Classic Paris high fashion and the tailored 'Chanel suit'. Also a range of sports style fashions and the famous 'Chanel No.5' perfume.

Ossie Clark - Youth fashions influenced by op-art. Hot pants, Maxi Coats, Gypsy dresses, motorcycle jackets, metallic leather and snakeskin. Later in the decade, flowing romantic evening wear and Latin-inspired fashions. Clark had designed for the Woodlands 21 boutique, having his fashions featured in Vogue.
He started his own company, Quorum, in 1965 with partner Alice Pollock which was to become one of Chelsea's most successful boutiques. Quorum was bought by Radley in 1968 but Clark continued to design for the new company, later specialising in crepe, satin, jersey and chiffon.

Elio Fiorucci - Miniskirts and general youth fashion. Italian shoe designer who exported many Sixties London fashions to Italy, opening a store in Milan, 1967, specially for London products.

Anne Fogarty - One of the first U.S. designers to produce bikinis and launcher of the 'Paper Doll' dress, with high waist, low neck, short-sleeved bodice and full skirt.

Betsey Johnson - Pantsuits, miniskirts and t-shirt dresses.

Jacques Heim - One of the designers credited with the introduction of the bikini. Owned a chain of boutiques selling sportswear between 1946 and 1966.

Emanuelle Khanh - lacy, frilled dresses and blouses, long collared jackets.

Emilio Pucci - Sportswear and psychedelic skirts, dresses and pantsuits.

Oscar de la Reuta - Designer for major fashion houses, working for Balenciaga, Lanvin-Castillo, Elizabeth Arden and Jane Derby. Started his own business in 1965 specialising in extravagant,
opulent designs, mainly elaborately-trimmed evening wear, particularly gypsy-style designs.

Alberto Fabiani - Married rival designer Simonetta in 1953 and opened a Paris house together in the 60s. Couturiers and accessory designers, tailored suits and evening dresses, evening culottes.

John Stephen - Suede waistcoats, kaftan jackets, velvet flares, 'groovy' wigs.

Terence Conran - The major force in raising design awareness during the Sixties. He opened his first 'Habitat' store at 77 Fulham Road in May 1964, concentrating on modern furniture and accessories.

Douglas Arnold 'Dougie' Millings - Bespoke men's fashion. Tailored for many top 'pop' stars including The Beatles, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Bill Haley, Cliff Richard, Roy Orbison, Marty Wilde, Billy Fury, Tommy Steele, Adam Faith, Buddy Greco, The Rolling Stones, The Everly Brothers, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Kinks, The Who and many screen and stage stars. (The round-collared suits for The Beatles cost £31 each!)

Giorgio Armani - Worked as a designer with Nino Cerruti from 1961 to 1974.

Barbara Hulanicki - Started her business by mail-order in 1963 with her husband, Stephen Fitz-Simon. Due to a phenomenal response to their newspaper advertising, they opened their first 'Biba' boutique in 1964, selling mini smock-dresses, mix'n'match fashions, rubberised raincoats, floppy hats and lengthened and dyed rugby shirts which were worn as mini-dresses, many of which were decorated with op-art designs. Their favoured colours were muted purples, dull reds, sepias, blues, greys and pinks. They moved to larger premises in 1965 and again in 1969 when they opened a department store in Kensington High Street, selling men's, women's and children's wear (even purple nappies!). They also sold a variety of foods and household goods but the expansion of the range seemed to be the start of Biba's fall from youth popularity, eventually closing down in 1975.    also see Bill Harry's Sixties - 'BIBA'

Roberto Capucci - Flamboyant use of Mediterranean colours and sculptural forms. He famously produced garments made of sealed plastic filled with coloured water.

Cristobal Balenciaga - Highly fashionable in the fifties, the house of Balenciaga carried on through the Sixties with famous name designers producing loosely tailored suits and sculptural evening wear. Balenciaga retired in 1968.

Laura Ashley - Country style clothing and furnishing fabrics. Laura started with a cotton drill apron in 1961 - almost an anti-fashion house featuring inexpensive tucked and frilled dresses in coarse cotton and lacy shirts with leg o'mutton sleeves. She opened her first shop in Kensington in 1968.

Anthony Price - Glamorous evening wear and the designer of the clothes for The Rolling Stones' 'Gimme Shelter' tour of 1967, while working as a designer for Stirling Cooper producing fashions for Miss Selfridge. He also later designed for Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music.

Valentino Garavani - Decorative evening wear and tailored day wear. While still a student, he won a prestigious prize for fashion design by the International Wool Secretariat (an award also won later by both Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld). This led to his being employed by Jean Desses in 1950. Valentino assisted Desses for five years before moving to work for Guy Laroche, a former chief illustrator at Desses. He launched his first salon on the Via Condotti in Rome in 1960. When he showed his first collection that year, he gained huge recognition for his sophisticated, Hollywood-style evening wear. He also drew regard for his full-length skirts (despite the popularity of mini skirts) his penchant for simple contrasts of black and white and his signature 'Valentino red'.

His success resulted in a Paris boutique and the launch of the famous 'V' label. In 1967, he won the coveted Neiman Marcus Prize and presented a 'No Colour' collection produced entirely in creams, buffs and whites, in contrast to the highly fashionable psychedelic colouring of the period. By 1969 he was producing designs heavily influenced by op-art and, in 1970, launched his first ready-to-wear line, with more boutiques following in Rome and New York. For over 40 years, known simply as 'Valentino', he has been one of fashion's most prominent names, designing some of the world's most elegant evening wear and classic creations.

Charles Jourdan - Brightly-coloured suede and leather shoes. He also designed for leading fashion houses including Dior and Cardin.

Calvin Klein - Klein taught himself how to sew and sketch as a boy, earning a place at New York's High School of Art and Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology. He finally launched his own label in 1968, in partnership with childhood friend Barry Schwartz. Noted for peajackets, turtleneck sweaters and long-line slacks.

Karl Lagerfeld - Flamboyant evening wear and furs. He worked for Patou until 1964, later designing on a freelance basis for Chloe and Krizia. He also designed shoes for Charles Jourdan and furs for Fendi from 1967.

Yves Saint Laurent - Safari and pea jackets, smocks, pantsuits, see-through designs. He opened his own fashion house with Pierre Bergé in 1962, having had to leave his previous position at Dior in 1960 to fight in the Algerian war. He launched the 'Mondrian' look in 1965 and a collection that was inspired by pop-art in 1966, establishing his chain of 'Rive Gauche' boutiques which provided new fashion ideals for the richer youth of the period. Also in 1966, he introduced 'le smoking', his legendary smoking suit, which prompted the consequent androgynous revolution. He is now credited with a range of other innovations including the reefer jacket (1962), the sheer blouse (1966), and the jumpsuit (1968), as well as ready-to-wear culture as a whole.

Dorothee Bis - Opened a boutique in 1962 with Elie & Jacqueline Jacobson-designed 'adult' versions of young girls clothes. Knee socks, peaked caps, cut-out dresses, trouser suits and crocheted sweaters and dresses.

Luis Estevez - U.S. West Coast designer specialising in glamorous evening wear.

Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin - Formed Tuffin & Foale in 1962, designing for the young, ready-to-wear market which was bought extensively by London store Woollands. Best known for lace dresses with cut-outs under the arms. Designer Marion Foale described the general Carnaby area in 1962 as follows: "People lived there, there was a dairy, a tobacconist, a newsagent - there was this little courtyard and everything… a proper village, though very run down."