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Laura Ashley (née Mountney; 7 September 1925 – 17 September 1985) was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman.She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s.
Laura Ashley shop, Hong Kong. Laura Ashley (LSE: ALY) is a British textile design company. It was founded by Bernard Ashley and his wife Laura Ashley in 1953 in London, and first became known for creating Victorian style head scarves, one of which was worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film Roman Holiday.
Laura Ashley was not the only designer to look nostalgically to the past. Fashions based on the 1920s, 30s, 40s, and 50s were popular throughout much of the decade, with Hollywood films like The Godfather and The Great Gatsby , and numerous exhibitions on costume history at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York increasing their popularity.
Get ready to swoon as we showcase 16 stunning photos that prove 1950s jewelry was the ultimate showstopper. 1. French Designer Coco Chanel Boarding a Plane in Texas, 1957
Following the war the then-dilapidated house was retained by the Elby family until the late 1950s. In the late 1970s, the château was bought by Laura Ashley and her husband, Bernard Ashley , who conducted extensive renovation work on the fabric of the building and re-designed the interiors. [ 1 ]
Wattenberg points to names like Irving, Milton and Sidney (which were common in the 1910s), Warren, Shirley, Gordon and Wallace (1930s) and Glenn, Curtis, Stewart and Wayne (1950s).
Mary Lillian White later Mary Dening (22 January 1930 – 20 May 2020) was an English textile designer known for several iconic textile prints of the 1950s. [1] [2] Her designs were very popular and extensively copied in many 1950s homes, as well as in cabins aboard the RMS Queen Mary and at Heathrow Airport. [3]
Following Ashley's original, the song has been covered several times. Frankie Laine and Brook Benton concurrently released their own versions of the song in September 1967. These versions debuted on the Easy Listening (now Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks ) charts in the same week, and both made the lower regions of the Billboard Hot 100 .