Laura Ashley
Laura Ashley
Laura Ashleywas 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 She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s. The Laura Ashley style is characterised by Romantic English designs — often with a 19th-century rural feel — and the use of natural fabrics...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth7 September 1925
CityDowlais, Wales
educational ideas want
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
forever ephemeral lasts
I don't like ephemeral things; I like things that last forever
century turns
I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.