Zandra Rhodes provides a luscious documentary of this leading British designer (b. 1940), spanning her 50-year career in fashion and textile design. The book showcases no longer only Rhodes’s work but additionally her vivid personality and creative energy. Both a fashion trailblazer and a consummate textile designer, her influence can also be seen within the work of latest labels such as Mary Katrantzou and Alice Temperley. The book honors the centrality of textile design in Rhodes’s work, even as exploring the flexibility of her imagination during her long career; contributors include Pierpaolo Piccioli, creative director of Valentino, Suzy Menkes, editor of Vogue International, and celebrated fashion designers Anna Sui and Rajeev Sethi. It also commemorates the 50th anniversary of the home of Zandra Rhodes, a British-owned and -made brand, and Rhodes’s successful status quo of the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.