About Sally Tuffin
Born 1938. Sally Tuffin is a ceramicist and fashion designer.
Sally Tuffin (born 1938 in Essex) is an English fashion designer and ceramicist who, with Marion Foale, was half of Foale and Tuffin, the groundbreaking fashion label that was part of the "youthquake" movement in 1960s London.
Early life and education Tuffin is the daughter of a dressmaker mother and a printer and draughtsman father. She was educated at Friends' School, a progressive Quaker school in Saffron Walden.
Tuffin studied at Walthamstow College of Art, where she became friends with Marion Foale, who was in the year below her.
Fashion designs
Having both been given sewing machines by their parents for their 21st birthdays
Sally Tuffin and Richard Dennis now run the independent pottery Dennis Chinaworks.
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British fashion designer and ceramicist (born 1938)
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