Fashion Aces is a community that aspires to contributing to the Peace of the World through the co-operation of its members in the various spheres of Fashion and Textiles.
Professional and amateur Fashionistas, Fashion and Textile workers and employers, students and teachers, are all exactly equal in terms of their human rights and of their expectations to live on a just and peaceful planet.
Founded in London by a Visual Arts student at the Working Men’s College in January and February 2015, the student’s initial luminaries were all British, both Establishment and Popular.
The original four Aces, Sir Cecil Beaton, Sir Noel Coward, Sir Norman Hartnell, and Sir Hardy Amies, were all born in Greater London within one decade of each other at the turn of the Twentieth Century during the reigns of Queen Victoria and her son King Edward VII and lived through the two World Wars. All four served the British Crown during the Second World War in some capacity from the Home Guard to the Special Operations Executive.
They were all associated with the Royal Family, two of them designing dresses for Queen Elizabeth II. By contrast, Great Britain proved to be equally creative on the Popular Front, as London became the centre of the World attention during the Swinging Sixties with designers such as Mary Quant and Ozzie Clark, photographers such as David Bailey and Patrick Lichfield, and models such as Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy achieving global acclaim.
A further burst of creative energy surfaced in Great Britain with the anti-Establishment explosion of Punk Rock, whose de facto Queen was the fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, partner and collaborator of Malcolm McLaren, manager of the notorious and thrilling Sex Pistols.
As the capital of the British Empire, despite the melting away of the Empire’s dominions and colonies since the end of the Second World War, London has managed to maintain an avant-guard position in the creative industries of music, art, film, theatre, graphic design and not least our main concern here, Fashion and Textiles.
In the present, London is probably the most exciting and vibrant city in the world, with an amazing spectrum of representative cultures, nations, and races from all over the globe living here. Refugees from so many war-torn countries, in Europe, the Middle-East, and Africa, and immigrants from former colonies, together with citizens of the European Union, and international students make for a multi-cultural Metropolis worthy of the greatest global empire, yet there has been no actual Empire since the early 1960s.
THE FASHION INDUSTRY 