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Author Name: Ironside, Virginia
Title: Janey and Me: Growing Up with My Mother
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Size: 8vo
Publisher: London, United Kingdom Fourth Estate Ltd 2003
ISBN Number: 1841157503 / 9781841157504
Seller ID: 001283
pp. x + 305, 15 illus. illustrated endpapers. Minor wear to dj. Stylish, beautiful and self-loathing, Janey Ironside was to lead a cultural revolution. In 1956 she became Professor of Fashion at the Royal College of Art - then an extraordinary appointment for a young mother. Discovering and promoting designers like Ossie Clark and Bill Gibb, she changed the way people dressed around the world and herself became a fashion icon. Yet the qualities that made her great - wit, talent and drive - did not bring happiness to either her or her family. Having grown up in colonial India, Janey suffered a painful childhood separation from her parents. She married dashing artist Christopher Ironside, but eking out wartime rations ill suited a woman whose idea of divine punishment was "to spend eternity washing up". Dress-making soon filled the void, while her daughter Virginia endured a string of au pairs, embarrassing outfits and acute loneliness. As Virginia fought to be her own person, plunging into the swing of the 60s as a rock journalist, she was caught between a father she adored and a mother bent on self-destruction. [25]
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