Jean Elizabeth Muir, Dressmaker, London, 17 July 1928 to 28 May 1995. Father, Cyril Vernon Muir, chiropodist, Cape Town, South Africa, mother, Phyllis Coy, grandfather, Robert Campbell Muir, grandmother, Amelia Ann Prophet, great-grandfather, Robert Campbell Muir, A.F.Craig. Paisley, Scotland, Anchor Line Steamship Company, SS Bolivia, Austrian Hungarian Company, SS Tiza, Fiume, Patrick Henderson and Co, Glasgow and London, Sailing Ship SS Canterbury, Steamer Loch Ard, SS Hengist, Barque, Falkland Islands, SS Hawk's Bay, SS Norfolk, The Federal Line, Men's Brewery, London. Roy Strong, Critic, Joanna Lumley, model, actress, Lucia van der Post, Financial Times, Jean Muir, Lady Antonia Fraser, Mirriam Stoppard, Barbara Streisand, Lauren Bacall, Bridget Riley, Gemma Levine, Photographer, Miss Muir, Peter Brown, Photographer, Karin Darnell, Pinnup, Womans Journal, October 1991, June Ducas, Elizabeth Frink, Joan Plowright, Patricia Hodge, Selina Scott, Princess Alexandra. Jana and Jane, 1960, British Trust, Clare Francis, Andre Previn, Jean Muir, Royal Designer for Industry, Royal Society of Arts, Chartered Society for Designers, Niki de Saint Phalle, sculptor, Harry Leuckert, Husband, Jean Muir, Liberty, Susan Small, Jane & Jane, 1960, Harvey Nichols, Glenda Jackson, L'hommage de la mode, Federation du Pret a Porter Feminin, Dame Harper School, Bedford, Jaeger, Jane and Jane, Ambassador Award for Achievement, Jacqmar, Royal College of Arts, 1981, Louise Brooks bob, Biba, Jane Mulvagh, Beatrix Miller, Vogue, English Vionnet, Miss Muir, Dressmaker, fashion designer.
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Jean Muir - Beyond Fashion

 by Sinty Stemp

This book will quite rightly already be considered the definitive book on Miss Jean Muir. It has been written and produced with great care by arguably the best person to undertake writing a book on Miss Muir. For a student of fashion to the owner of a Jean Muir designed and made dress and every other person in between, Ms Stemp's book is an absolute must. There are many wonderful parts within the book, of particular interest and an excellent idea has been the inclusion of a number of Jean Muir Sketches reproduced as they were originally done by Miss Muir in her own sketch book.

Congratulations to Sinty Stemp for an excellent book.

My advice: buy the book before it goes out of print!

Robin Norton December 2006