Alice Pollock

Alice Pollock (born 1942) is a British fashion designer and retailer who founded the boutique Quorum, which featured the work of fellow designers Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell, and later started the male modelling agency English Boy in London.

Quorum Pollock founded Quorum in 1964 with the textile designer Celia Birtwell. Her first backer was the theatre producer Michael White, whose wife, the former model Sarah Hillsdon, designed for Quorum until her pregnancy. It was Pollock's second backer, a stockbroker called Michael Armitage, who introduced her to Ossie Clark at his RCA show. This led to the Clark/Pollock design partnership at Quorum Other Quorum designers included Michael Rainey (before he launched his own boutique Hung On You in winter 1965), Sheridan Barnett, who later launched label Barnett and Brown with Sheilagh Brown and the textile designer Frances Ronaldson, who went on to marry Pollock's ex-husband, Nick Pollock. Pollock designed for the label into the 1970s. She and Clark parted ways in 1973

English Boy In 1966, Pollock and Sir Mark Palmer founded the early male modelling agency English Boy in Chelsea, London, with Palmer as manager. Palmer declared that the agency's aim was "to change the image of British manhood and put the boy, as opposed to the girl, on the magazine cover in the future."