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
Michael Fish TV Weather Presenter of the Year and "The Sunday Times" gave him the honour of "National Treasure". Michael Fish also co-authored a book with Paul Hudson and Ian McCaskill called "Storm Force: Britain's Wildest Weather", published in October 2007. He was awarded honorary degrees by City University London in 1996 and Exeter University in the summer of 2005. More than eight years after retiring from the BBC national forecasts team, he made a return to regular forecasting, presenting a weekly weather forecast for Netweather.tv. He resumed forecasting on BBC South East Today, providing holiday cover for the regular forecaster and