4-528: Belinda Bellville (29 March 1930 – 5 May 2024) was a British fashion designer, and the co-founder in 1953 (with David Sassoon ) of Bellville Sassoon . She was born on 29 March 1930, the daughter of Anthony Seymour Bellville (1902–1970) and Audrey Dorothy C Kidston (1906–1997), who was the younger sister of the racing driver and aviator Glen Kidston (1899–1931). In 1940, her mother Audrey married Hon. Peter Pleydell-Bouverie, son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor . In 1952, she married David Whately,
8-919: A partner in a company that made mobiles and abstract sculptures for advertising, and was later a financier. He died in 2008. They had three daughters together. Their daughter Polly Whately married Thomas Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester . She died on 5 May 2024, aged 94. David Sassoon (designer) David Sassoon (born 1932) is a high end British fashion designer, who owns the Bellville Sassoon salon in Knightsbridge , London , founded by Belinda Bellville in 1953. Born to Iraqi Jewish parents, Gourgi and Victoria Sassoon in north London, Sassoon initially intended becoming an actor but turned to fashion when his father disapproved. He attended Avigdor High School and Lauderdale Road Synagogue in West London. He
12-489: The going-away outfit." Aside from Diana, Sassoon has designed clothes for Princess Margaret , Princess Michael of Kent , the Duchess of York , the Duchess of Gloucester , Jackie Kennedy , Audrey Hepburn , Elizabeth Taylor and Jerry Hall . His designs have appeared on the covers of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar . Sassoon has claimed that he is "probably the only designer around today who has dressed every female member of
16-615: Was invited by Belinda Bellville to join her salon in 1958 and in 1970 it became the Bellville Sassoon. In 2023, it was announced that some of Sassoon's designs would be featured in an exhibition on the role of Jewish designers in London's fashion scene. He counts numerous socialites and the royal family as amongst his clientele and was the most prolific of Princess Diana 's early designers. Sassoon has said of Diana, "When she got engaged, her mother brought her in to us and asked us to make
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