Neil Winterbotham

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Neil Winterbotham was a British fashion entrepreneur and one of the founders of the London fashion boutique, Dandie Fashions.[1]

Dandie Fashions founded by Winterbotham and Tara Browne, an heir to the Guinness fortune, opened at 161 King's Road in November 1966. Browne died in a car crash the following month.[2]

Winterbotham was also responsible, with Dave Howson, for the management of the Middle Earth club, an early hippie music venue in London.[3]

Neil Winterbottom's attended Westminster School.[citation needed] Photographs of Neil in dandy-style fashions in 1967 were originally taken for an article in Life magazine featuring King's Road fashions in 1967. He died in 2019.[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "John Crittle: The Dandy Larrikin in London". The Look. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  2. ^ Julian Palacios (2010). Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe. Plexus. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-85965-431-9. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  3. ^ Christoph Grunenberg; Jonathan Harris (2005). Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s. Liverpool University Press. p. 1968. ISBN 978-0-85323-929-1. Retrieved 15 January 2016.