Janice Wainwright, 82, fashion designer admired for her use of quality materials such as graphic chiffons, figured velvet and silk woven in Lyon

[Michael Rhodes]

Janice Wainwright, who has died aged 82, had a vocation for the clothes themselves and the processes of their making. At 20, she had won a place on Janey Ironside’s revolutionary course at the Royal College of Art in London. Before becoming professor of fashion, Ironside had been a skilled, imaginative dressmaker, and she taught students (including Ossie Clark, Bill Gibb and Zandra Rhodes) that fashion should be more than a transient look transmitted through images: clothes could be physical pleasures, and should serve their wearer’s identity, not subsume it.

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/jun/21/janice-wainwright-obituary

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