Antony Price is an English fashion designer best known for evening wear and suits, and for being as much an "image-maker" as a designer.
24 Facts About Antony Price
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Antony Price has collaborated with a number of high-profile musicians, including David Bowie, Robert Palmer, Iva Davies, Steve Strange, and Duran Duran, but especially Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music, whose look was defined by Price's designs.
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Antony Price was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, England in 1945, and grew up Selside in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, later moving to Oxenhope.
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Antony Price was educated at Eshton Hall School for Boys in Gargrave, Yorkshire.
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Antony Price next designed for Plaza, and then, in 1979, started his own label, with shops in South Molton Street and on the King's Road.
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Antony Price operated a shop called 'Ebony' in the 1980s.
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Antony Price was the stylist for Roxy Music's first eight albums, as well as for the back cover for Lou Reed's 1972 Transformer album.
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Antony Price's self-declared trademark design is a spiral-zipped dress in cire satin, first seen worn by Amanda Lear in Nova's cover story for its May 1970 issue, 'How To Undress for Your Husband' and later featured as one of 'Princess Zonda's archetypal outfits in the advertisements Price drew himself for Plaza in the late seventies.
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Lear was the Antony Price-dressed covergirl for Roxy Music's 1973 album For Your Pleasure.
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In 1982, Antony Price collaborated with the British band Duran Duran, designing electric silk tonic suits for the "Rio" video.
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In 1983, Antony Price staged a 'Fashion Extravaganza' at the London's Camden Palace.
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Antony Price reinvented the suit so that it was no longer about going to the office.
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Antony Price started at a time when British fashion didn't have sponsors.
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Antony Price has said of this outfit 'It wasn't the chicest or most subtle garment, but when Jerry moved under the lights she looked like a Siamese fighting fish in a vast blue tank.
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Antony Price received the 'Evening Glamour Award' from the British Fashion Council in 1989, and the following year British Vogue published a profile on Antony Price written by Sarah Mower.
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Antony Price described his approach to designing women's clothing in an interview in 1994:.
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Antony Price was widely considered to be a frontrunner in the search to replace Gianni Versace in 1998, after that designer's untimely death.
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Antony Price created evening gowns constructed of carpet to feature in the advertising campaigns of British carpet manufacturer Brintons, a commission previously undertaken by Vivienne Westwood.
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Antony Price was nominated for the British Fashion Council's 'Red Carpet Designer Award' at the 2006 British Fashion Awards, and a small range of his clothes sell in London boutique 'A La Mode'.
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Antony Price was featured in the fashion magazines Pop and Butt in spring 2005.
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In December 2006, Antony Price was photographed by David Bailey for British Vogue alongside Christopher Kane.
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Antony Price has worked with Daphne Guinness in developing a range of key shirt and tailoring designs for her eponymous clothing line, which is currently sold in London's Dover Street Market.
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Antony Price launched a line of menswear for Topman in November 2008.
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Antony Price continues to design clothing, including the Duchess of Cornwall.