
She says I’m the worst dresser she knows because she always catches me in jeans looking dreadful.” When Lauren Bacall came here the first time,” Rhodes chatters, “she stepped right on a pin. No one’s ever been nasty about it, but I think a lot of the ladies were nervous at first: It’s rather disconcerting to change in front of a dozen girls cutting and machining ’round you when you’re used to a cushy dressing room. “Tony Snowdon brought his kids for tea and said he wanted to make a film here. Pat Harmsworth, Lady Lichfield and Pauline de Rothschild, who feels Rhodes “is the most talented designer in the world.”

Other grandees to climb the three flights of stairs stacked with cardboard boxes and rolls of fabric include Evangeline Bruce, Marietta Tree, Britt Ekland,
