16 Facts About Sheilagh Brown

Sheilagh Brown is a British fashion designer who began her career in the 1960s, as part of the Swinging London scene.

Sheilagh Brown was among the designers for Stirling Cooper, working subsequently at Coopers and Quorum, before establishing the label Barnett and Brown with Sheridan Barnett.

Sheilagh Brown continued to design under her own name, both high-end fashion and for the high-street, as part of a collaboration with Jeffrey Rogers.

Sheilagh Brown remained in this role for more than a decade.

Sheilagh Brown worked as a fashion academic, first at Central Saint Martins and later at the Royal College of Art, where she was appointed a senior fellow in 2011.

Sheilagh Brown was born in Kent and her father was a photographer for the Natural History Museum.

Sheilagh Brown had her first foray into fashion working in a shoe shop in Rayners Lane.

Sheilagh Brown attended Harrow Art School where, as she recalled in an interview for Very magazine, she learned many skills including running up a frock in a couple of hours to wear for the evening's clubbing in Soho.

Sheilagh Brown joined as a womenswear designer, succeeding Jane Whiteside, while Price was in charge of menswear.

In 1976, Barnett and Sheilagh Brown set up in business together in Macklin Street, Covent Garden, in a space loaned rent free by Jeff Banks.

Sheilagh Brown set up a design studio co-op for graduate designers called Queen Street Studios, which was located above Blitz Club.

The article featured designs by Sheilagh Brown, including a wraparound coat in mohair and jodhpurs with matching top with a ruff collar made of pink moire.

Sheilagh Brown stayed on as principal lecturer in fashion at Saint Martins.

This, as described by Rogers, was an abysmal failure, but he liked working with Sheilagh Brown and invited her to design for him.

Sheilagh Brown noted that this was a very different way of working, not least because store buyers had more control over the overall styling and merchandising of garments once they arrived in store, adding: "The discipline of working within a strict budget is surprisingly exhilarating".

Sheilagh Brown taught many of the next generation of fashion designers during her tenure at Central Saint Martins and later at the Royal College of Art, where she was made a senior fellow in 2011.