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Bruce Oldfield (born 1950) is a British fashion designer. He is known for his couture eveningwear and dressing Hollywood actresses, British royalty, notably Diana, Princess of Wales, and much of the European aristocracy.
Oldfield never knew his natural parents, an Irish mother and Jamaican father who was a boxer. At the age of six months he was placed with a Barnardo's orphanage. As child he lived in a foster family in County Durham in the care of Violet Masters who worked as a seamstress. Violet taught Oldfield how to sew at an early age; she recorded that at age seven, he used scraps from her sewing table to make a dress for a doll on his own. As a teenager he returnded to Barnardo's and following a grammar school education went to study fashion and design at Ravensbourne College of Art in Kent, from 1968 to 1971. He then considered teacher training college but with the aid of a grant from Barnardo's, switched to further study fashion at St. Martin's School of Art in London.
On graduating in 1975, Oldfield set up his own ready-to-wear label, followed by a couture label in 1978. His big break came in 1976 when he was phoned by Charlotte Rampling who asked him to design a dress for her. Oldfield had returned from an unsuccessful sales trip to America and Rampling had come across some of his designs in New York. Although Oldfield had already received a fair amount of editorial attention, it was Rampling's celebrity endorsement that propelled him to commercial success.
In 1980, Oldfield was awarded the OBE for services to fashion and industry.
References *Biography at 100 Great Black Britons.com
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