Sally Tuffin and Marion Foale left the Royal College of Art in 1961 and took 3 floors of a narrow house and shop front in Carnaby Street. They shunned Paris fashion and turned to ‘fun’ clothes. "We suddenly didn’t want to be chic; we just wanted to be ridiculous." Their clothes were picked up by a London store at around the same time David Bailey photographed Tuffin & Foale clothing for Vogue magazine.

"We made Swinging Sixties clothes," says Marion Foale. By 1963 they fulfilled their ambitions of running a successful business without the help of a man. 

Last updated: June 01, 2003

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