Early Life and Education Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes was born September 19, 1940, in Chatham, Kent, England. Her mother, a fitter at the House of Worth in Paris and later a professor at Medway College of Art, instilled in her an early fascination with fashion—a passion that would define her lifelong artistic endeavors. Her father served in the Royal Air Force in Egypt before transitioning to a lorry driver role. Rhodes’s formative year…