Michael Fish (fashion designer) Michael Fish (fashion designer) Michael Fish (born 1940) is a British fashion designer famous for designing many of the notable British looks of the 1960s and 1970s, such as the kipper tie. Michael Fish was born in Wood Green, London in 1940. His Mother Joan, worked in a chemist shop in Winchmore Hill, his father, Sydney, was an on-course bookmaker. He had one sister, Lesley and a brother named Philip. Fish was apprenticed in shirtmaking, and by the early 1960s was designing shirts at traditional men's outfitters Turnbull & Asser of Jermyn Street. His designs reflected, and to some extent
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