Peter Russell (fashion designer)

Peter Russell
Peter Russell at work in 1944. source: IWM
Born
Thomas Christmas Russell

1886 (1886)
Cawston, Norfolk, England
Died1966 (aged 99–100)
Folkestone, England
OccupationFashion designer
Peter Russell black dinner frock, produced during wartime and photographed by the Ministry of Information to promote the idea that utility could be incorporated into even high fashion. source: IWM

Peter Russell (1886–1966) was a London-based English fashion designer and a founder member of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers. Running a major couture house from the 1930s to the early 1950s, he has been described as a: "designer of beautiful, jauntily sophisticated women's suits".[1]

  1. ^ Schwartz, Benjamin (December 2005). "Passion in Fashion". The Atlantic. Retrieved 13 August 2014.