Betty Jackson
Betty Jackson was born in Bacup, Lancashire on June 24th, 1949 and is the Fashion Designer. At the age of 74, Betty Jackson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Betty Jackson (born 24 June 1949) is an English fashion designer based in London, England.
She was born in Lancashire.
She was given first a MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 1987 and then a CBE for "services to the fashion industry" in 2007. She is also known for designing several of Edina and Patsy's outrageous costumes on the 1990s hit television comedy Absolutely Fabulous.
Early life
Jackson was born in Bacup, Lancashire, on June 24, 1949. Arthur Jackson, a shoe manufacturer, and her mother, Phyllis Gertrude (Rains), shopped 'for the season' at Kendal Milne in Manchester. Following a dislocation during her birth, one leg was amputated at the age of six, and it didn't recover. A car accident sparked more complications, and she has walked with a stick for the first time since.
She was educated at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School. She studied fashion at the Birmingham College of Art under Zandra Rhodes and began her fashion career as a fashion illustrator during her senior year (1971) at college. She began designing for Ossie Clark's Quorum collection in the late 1970s.
Personal life
Betty Jackson Ltd formed in 1981 after she met her husband David Cohen, who founded her firm, Betty Jackson Ltd. They worked together for almost four decades. David was from an Egyptian-Jewish family who immigrated to France. He died in January 2020 when he was still on the dote. They had two children, Pascale and Pascale, as well as Oliver Jackson-Cohen, an actor and singer.
Career
In 1973, Jackson hired Wendy Dagworthy as her design assistant. She went to Quorum and Coopers before opening her own design firm.
Betty Jackson for Men collection, 1986, and she opened her flagship store on Brompton Road, London, 1991. She began the Autograph collection for Marks & Spencer in 2000 and now works on Debenhams' Betty Jackson Black label.
Jackson has been active in the'size zero' debate as a member of the British Fashion Council's Model Health Inquiry. Following the deaths of two models with eating disorders in 2006, media attention was drawn to the girls's wellbeing and size. Jackson accepted the membership of the panel.
Jackson served as a design consultant for a panel of judges in 2008, creating new gowns for High Court and Court of Appeal judges.
Awards
- Woman Magazine Separates Designer of the Year award, London, 1981, 1983;
- Cotton Institute Cotton Designer of the Year award, 1983;
- Bath Museum of Costume Dress of the Year award, 1984;
- British Designer of the Year award, 1985;
- Harvey Nichols award, 1985;
- International Linen Council Fil d'Or award, 1985, 1989; Viyella award, 1987;
- MBE, 1987;
- Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Art, London, 1989
- Fellow, Birmingham Polytechnic, 1989;
- Honorary Fellow, University of Central Lancashire, 1992
- Designer of the Year, 1999
- CBE, 2007
- Honorary Doctor, University of Huddersfield, 2011
- Honorary Doctorate, Norwich University of the Arts, 2017