Five Minutes With Zandra Rhodes: Open to Investors, Exhibitions in the Works

As darkness fell on lower Manhattan Monday night, Zandra Rhodes was hard to miss wearing a vibrant pink floral dress and hot pink heels and in search of a cab on Greenwich Street. En route from her friend Anna Sui’s runway show, Rhodes gave the designer high marks for her spring collection. Until next month, “The World of Anna Sui” is on view at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum, which was founded by Rhodes. With a New York trip planned, Rhodes had asked Sui to meet for dinner. “Anna said, ‘Why don’t you come to my show?’ So I came a day early,” Rhodes said. She designed a print for Sui about two years ago. Rhodes continued, “She enjoys coming ‘round to the museum and then we approached her about doing an exhibition. And it’s a fabulous show. Twiggy came to the opening. That was very lovely.” Fifty years into her own multifaceted career, Rhodes is busy culling her own retrospective that will be unveiled at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. (Another well-established designer Jil Sander is busy with her own retrospective at Frankfurt’s Museum Angewandte Kunst, which is said to be taking over the entire Richard Meier-designed building.) But back to

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