1. Prudence Glynn championed new designers and was an influential commentator about the way the industry operated, holding a number of advisory roles outside journalism.
17 Facts About Prudence Glynn
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Prudence Loveday Glynn was the youngest of four children born to retired army officer Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Trevor Wallace Glynn and Evelyn Margaret Glynn.
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Prudence Glynn grew up in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire and was educated at The Downs School, Seaford, Sussex.
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Prudence Glynn left school and went straight into a job in advertising.
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At Woman's Mirror, Prudence Glynn was one of the first to feature Twiggy.
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In 1965, Prudence Glynn married the Conservative Party politician and Anglo-Irish peer David Hennessy, who later became managing director of the ATV television broadcaster.
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The first page authored by Prudence Glynn appeared on 3 May 1966.
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In 1967, new Times editor William Rees-Mogg introduced journalist bylines and from that point Prudence Glynn became a known fashion name.
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Prudence Glynn was witty, sometimes acerbic, and her critics felt she didn't treat the world of fashion as seriously as she should.
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Prudence Glynn was a vociferous supporter of homegrown fashion talent and promoted many of the new designers emerging in the 1960s.
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Prudence Glynn's influence spread beyond the UK; she secured a rare interview with Cristobal Balenciaga in 1968, the year he shut his couture house.
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Prudence Glynn was a member of the council of the Royal College of Art and the Design Council.
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Prudence Glynn joined the Council for National Academic Awards committee for art and design in 1972 and became a member of the Crafts Council.
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Prudence Glynn was elected fellow of the RSA in 1974.
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Prudence Glynn published two books on fashion, Fashion: Dress in the Twentieth Century and Skin to Skin: Eroticism in Dress.
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Prudence Glynn had a series of health problems that affected her later career.
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Prudence Glynn was legally separated from her husband at the time of her death, from a brain haemorrhage, at St Charles Hospital, Kensington.