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In 1967 the Daily
Express published an article about "convertibles" and claimed "the idea comes from bright designer Janice Wainwright at Simon Massey, London" when she created a maxi skirt which becomes a mini skirt and also a cloak - “first it was the mini, then the maxi, and now…the multi…!" The
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African look... Here it took a slender, shy young blonde designer Janice Wainwright to cut and drape and fashion these prints into dresses of logic and beauty She's chosen surprise colourways - to everyone who thinks of jungle prints as blazes of red and
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From the early 1970s, with a free rein, she began a creative period of freelancing which developed the
Wainwright label. In 1974 Janice was able to buy out her original investors and traded under her own name. She expanded her company in a new premises in Poland Street, Soho, and, with her sister
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She introduced the trouser suit for women, which were considered outlandish at the time. In the late 1960s, a newspaper set up a photo shoot whereby
Wainwright, wearing a trouser suit she designed, tried to gain entry to some of London’s classiest hotels where trouser suits went against the
22:(2 December 1940 – 3 June 2023) was a British fashion designer. She was known for creating glamorous bias-cut and tailored pieces using high quality fabrics featuring intricate embroidery and applique and ran her own successful fashion label from 1972 to 1990.
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In the 1980s the Janice
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Sunday Mirror also reported that Simon Massey, with "Janice
Wainwright, their clever young designer", had found a "cure" for "fashion schizophrenia" in creating convertibles.
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In 1990, Wainwright retired from fashion. In 2003 she moved to Sydney, Australia where she was married to architect and painter Rollin
Schlicht until his death in 2011.
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She became well known for using
African prints and The Scotsman declared her as the "African prints queen". Writing in the Telegraph in 1967
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Wendy as head of sales, a new era of creative and global business success began. Her collections were sold in London stores
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In 1965, London fashion house Simon Massey head hunted
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Wainwright continued designing for Simon Massey under the name "Janice Wainwright at Simon Massey" until 1971.
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Wainwright returned to the UK in 2017, living in Canterbury where she died on 3 June 2023, at the age of 82.
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Janice Wainwright was born in Doe Lea, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire and grew up in Wimbledon, London.
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In 1967, Wainwright married photographer David Cripps MBE, and they had a son in 1970.
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in Seattle and Canada, Seibu in Japan, Joyce Boutique Hong Kong and Georges in Sydney.
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bronze and yellow - such as a rich forest green teamed with a grape-juice red.”
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Ranson, Geraldine (15 March 1981). "Looking ahead to Autumn - London".
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