John Bates (designer) the Year and donated to the Fashion Museum, Bath, which in 2006 held a major retrospective show of his work. One of Bates' most influential champions was Marit Allen, the editor of British Vogue's Young Ideas spread, who considered Bates the true inventor of the miniskirt, rather than Mary Quant or André Courrèges. Ernestine Carter also observed Bates' originality, noting that the Paris fashion collections for 1967 contained many looks which Bates had done first. In 1965 Bates designed memorable outfits for Diana Rigg to wear for her role as Emma Peel in "The Avengers", including Op-Art mini-coats and accessories
Craig Green (designer) Craig Green (designer) Craig Green (born 1986, in London) is a British fashion designer specialising in menswear. Following his BA studies, during which time he served an internship with Topman, Green went on to do a master's degree under Louise Wilson on the Fashion course at Central Saint Martins. For Autumn-Winter 2013, Green presented his first collection as part of a Topman/Fashion East initiative hosted by the British Fashion Council's London Collections: Men event. His work was widely commended in the fashion press, although the wearable wooden sculptures he showed were made fun of in a "Daily Mail" headline, and