Rifat Ozbek Rifat Ozbek Rıfat Özbek (, ; born in 1953 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish-born fashion designer, known for his exotic, ethnically-inspired outfits. He was named British Designer of the Year in 1988 and 1992. Özbek was born in Istanbul, Turkey and grew up in a yali on the Bosphorus. He moved to London in the 1970s and lived in his parents flat in Belgravia whilst he was studying architecture and then fashion at Saint Martin's School of Art. After graduating in 1977 (or 1978), Özbek went to Italy where he designed clothes for Monsoon. In 1984 he established his
Peter Alexander (fashion designer) Peter Alexander (fashion designer) Peter Alexander is an Australian fashion designer known for pyjamas, loungewear and giftware. Peter Alexander was born on the hj March 1965 in South Africa, but his family moved to Melbourne soon after his birth. During the early days of the Peter Alexander brand, Peter worked from his mother's dining room table. He initially sold directly to department stores. When a store cancelled an order for 2,000 pairs of pyjamas in 1990, in desperation, he took out a mail order advertisement in "Cleo" magazine. Alexander received 6,000 orders from that one advertisement alone. In 2000, Peter