04/08/2023
After studying Fine Art and at Ruskin College, Oxford Jacquetta Maddison decide to found Rosilk in the mid 1970’s . Jacquetta had been travelling in Kenya and had been asked to bring back some silks . Seeing a gap in the market , she approached , where a man called Mr Dixon would tell her what silks he needed, and she would supply.
Such was the demand that she started travelling to trade fairs in Europe to seek out more suppliers , and before long she was importing Crepe de Chine from Brazil and Shantung from China. A contact a Vogue would give Jacquetta the heads up on what the colours of the next season would be, and she in turn would steer and advise the designers on what colours and prints they should be buying , which more likely would then guarantee their designs to be featured in the magazine’s and be ‘on trend’.
Being the days of pre internet, Jacquetta would trek the streets of London with her large bags of samples to all of the top designers of the time, many of which became friends and also commissioned Jacquetta’s own textile designs, as well as those she was importing. It snowballed and very quickly celebrities and royalty were wearing Rosilks fabrics, and designers such a Bill Gibb,, The Emmanuel’s, Belville Sasson , The Pallants, Liberty’s, Bruce Oldfield , Catherine Walker and many more were regular clients. Princess Diana’s going away outfit in Peach was in Rosilk, and was the first of many of Jacquetta fabrics worn by Diana.
comes from Rosilk, Jacquetta’s , and her daughter, archives- Vintage fashion with history, vintage fashion that tells a story…
First drop collection coming soon!
