About the Author

Richard Lester trained with Sotheby's in the early 1990s having worked for Osborne & Little and Liberty. He divides his time between fine art valuation for a firm in the City of London and his vintage clothing business based in Sussex. In 2004 he donated a large collection of designs by John Bates to the Fashion Museum in Bath and assisted in organising the designer's retrospective exhibition at the museum in 2006. John Bates: Fashion Designer was published in 2008 by ACC Editions.

Reviews

An incredible time capsule of fashion images." New Zealand Fashion Quarterly, February 2010