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Sally Tuffin (born 1938 in Sally Tuffin; Marion Foale
National Portrait Gallery, 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014. is an English
Having both been given sewing machines by their parents for their 21st birthdays and having spent £5 on a steam iron, they founded the ''
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Essex
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) National Portrait Gallery, 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014. is an English
fashion designer
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and ceramicist
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who, with Marion Foale, was half of ''Foale and Tuffin
Foale and Tuffin was an English fashion design business established in London in 1961 by Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin. The label became a part of the 1960s Swinging London scene.
Company history
The designers had both studied at the Royal Col ...
'', the groundbreaking fashion label that was part of the "youthquake" movement in 1960s London.
Early life and education
Sally Tuffin is the daughter of a dressmaker mother and a printer and draughtsman father. She was educated at Friends' School, a progressiveQuaker
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...
school in Saffron Walden
Saffron Walden is a market town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, north of Bishop's Stortford, south of Cambridge and north of London. It retains a rural appearance and some buildings of the medieval period. The population was 15, ...
.
Tuffin studied at Walthamstow College of Art, where she became friends with Marion Foale, who was in the year below her. On graduating, they enrolled in 1959 on a fashion design diploma course at the Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It of ...
headed by Professor Janey Ironside.
Fashion designs
Having both been given sewing machines by their parents for their 21st birthdays and having spent £5 on a steam iron, they founded the ''Foale and Tuffin
Foale and Tuffin was an English fashion design business established in London in 1961 by Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin. The label became a part of the 1960s Swinging London scene.
Company history
The designers had both studied at the Royal Col ...
'' label, for which they created a range of colourful and fun dresses, skirts and tops. These were sold through their own shop in Carnaby Street
Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in Soho in the City of Westminster, Central London. Close to Oxford Street and Regent Street, it is home to fashion and lifestyle retailers, including many independent fashion boutiques.
S ...
, and later through department stores. Foale and Tuffin were among the first designers to experiment with creating trousers for women that were "flattering, sexy garments".
Their friend James Wedge helped them become established as designers and retailers. According to Tuffin, to make their clothes, they "worked on the billiards table in Jimmy Wedge's flat". According to Foale, Wedge had his offices in Ganton Street
Ganton Street is a street in central London that runs between Marshall Street and Kingly Street. It is crossed by Carnaby Street, and Newburgh Street joins it on its north side. The street is in a part-pedestrianised area dominated by independent ...
and told them about a place round the corner in Marlborough Court with a low rent. Soon, they needed more space, so Wedge found space for them above him, and when he moved out, they took over 4 Ganton Street in its entirety.
Ceramicist
Tuffin is now a ceramicist. In 1986 Moorcroft, Europe's last independent art pottery, was rescued by Maureen and Hugh Edwards together with Sally Tuffin and her husband Richard Dennis, a former art dealer. Sally became Art Director of the firm and designed ceramics for them from 1987 to 1997. Her numerous designs include: ''Balloons'', ''Bramble'', ''Peacock'' and ''Rain Forest''. Sally Tuffin and Richard Denis left the firm in 1992, since when Maureen and Hugh Edwards have been the sole owners. Sally Tuffin and Richard Dennis now run the independent pottery Dennis Chinaworks.See also
*Mary Quant
Dame Barbara Mary Quant, Mrs Plunket Greene, (born 11 February 1930)The Mary Quant exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2019-20 stated her year of birth as 1930, and that she became a student at Goldsmiths, University of London, Gol ...
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