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Designer Dame Zandra Rhodes, 85, graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1964.<\/p>\n

Bursting on to the fashion scene in 1969 with her first solo fashion collection, she has dressed international stars in a career spanning five decades. In 2003, Dame Zandra founded the Fashion and Textile Museum, now located on the ground floor of a 1950s industrial building she bought in 1995<\/a> and converted. She lives in a penthouse at the top.<\/p>\n

In 2020, she formed the Zandra Rhodes Foundation, a charity to enable future generations of designers, artists, researchers, students and educators to study her methods and techniques.<\/p>\n

What attracted you to your home?<\/h2>\n

Some friends saw a cash-and-carry building in a run-down street in Bermondsey and said: \u201cThis\u2019d be perfect for your museum.\u201d<\/p>\n

I said: \u201cWhat do you think I am, made of money<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where it began and I persuaded the top architect of Mexico, Ricardo Legorreta, to design it for me: the interior and the exterior.<\/p>\n

During the years of my work<\/a>, I\u2019d saved all my most important work and stored it. I always wanted to create a museum. This building seemed perfect with its very large wide wide-open space.<\/p>\n

Then, by building flats on the top including my penthouse, we were able to fill the flats.<\/p>\n

Do you have a favourite room?<\/h2>\n

I basically live by myself but have someone in one of the rooms in my flat. My favourite room is my big open penthouse, which is on two levels and goes across the whole front of the building with a walled balcony around three sides.<\/p>\n

From there I can see Canary Wharf one way and Elephant and Castle another way.<\/p>\n

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