Ossie Clark

Raymond " Ossie " Clark ( 9 June 1942 – 6 August 1996 ) was an English fashion designer who was a major figure in the Swinging Sixties scene in London and the fashion industry in that era.

" Ossie Clark and Ossie Clark for Radley clothes are highly sought after, and are worn by well known models like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell.

Born in Warrington, Cheshire, England in 1942, Raymond Clark's parents, Anne and Samuel Clark, moved to Oswaldtwistle during the war, hence his nickname, " Ossie ".

Ossie's mother, Anne Grace Clark, was in labour with Ossie for seven days during an air raid in World War II.

Anne Clark would give Ossie prescribed pills to keep him awake and alert.

In this way, one of fashions most famous collaborations was born: with Ossie Clark designing clothes and Celia Birtwell designing prints.

The first full Ossie Clark collection was bought by the Henri Bendel department store in New York.

Ossie Clark is well known for his use of muted colours and moss crepe fabric.

Alfred Radley was keen to maintain what made Ossie special and so he continued to support Ossie's aspirations by developing the Ossie Clark brand and funding large annual fashion shows, expanding Quorum's retail business and distributing Ossie's dresses to leading retailers around the world through the introduction of the " Ossie Clark for Radley " collections.

In 1968 Clark designed his first of many diffusion lines for Radley, " Ossie Clark for Radley " that made his clothes available to a high street clientele.

Clothing from Vivienne Westwood's shop on the King's Road became the most popular look and one of Malcolm McLaren ’ s ' Scum ' T-shirt text went so far as to include Ossie Clark under the heading ' Hates '.

His diaries, which he began in 1971, were published posthumously by his close friend Lady Henrietta Rous in 1998 as The Ossie Clark Diaries.

A book from this show, Ossie Clark: 1965 – 74, is published by Adrams Books and the V & A Museum.

Osvaldo César Ardiles ( born 3 August 1952 in Bell Ville, Córdoba Province ), often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is a football coach, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 World Cup as part of the Argentine national team.

Clinch County is the birthplace of actor Ossie Davis, Jonathan Smith ( football player ), politician W. Benjamin Gibbs, and politician William Chester Lankford.

Osvaldo Ocasio, ( born August 12, 1955 ), better known as Ossie Ocasio and nicknamed Jaws, is a Puerto Rican who was a boxer and world Cruiserweight champion.

His vision and physical presence were recognised by new manager Dave Sexton playing him often as a midfielder, notably wearing the number 4 shirt for most of the 1968 – 69 season ( reference page 70 ' Ossie – King of Stamford Bridge ' written with Martin Knight and John King ), but it is as a goalscoring centre-forward, number 9, that he is best remembered.

Produced by Showtime starring academy-award winner Forest Whitaker, Ossie Davis, and Jonathan Silverman, the film is based on the struggle of the actual Deacons for Defense against the Jim Crow South in a powerful area of Louisiana controlled by the Ku Klux Klan.

In voice-over, actor and activist Ossie Davis quotes from the eulogy he gave at Malcolm X's funeral as a montage of new and archival footage and photographs of Malcolm X is shown:

Montañez, like singer Daniel Santos and boxer Ossie Ocasio, is a native of the Tras Talleres area of Santurce San Juan.

The most famous Hexham Grey is " Ossie the Mossie ", ( sometimes spelled as " Ozzie the Mozzie ") a large model of a mosquito that sits atop the Hexham Bowling Club sign at the corner of the Pacific Highway and Old Maitland Road in Hexham.

Oswaldo Carlos Blanco Díaz ( born September 8, 1945 in Caracas, Venezuela ), better known as Ossie Blanco, is a former Major League Baseball first baseman.

Ossie Ostrich ( full name: Oswald Q Ostrich ) is an Australian television character, firstly on the Tarax Show, and then on the long-running program Hey Hey It's Saturday which started as a Saturday morning cartoon show for children in 1971.

Ossie is a good-natured pink ostrich puppet that sported a light blue mohawk hairstyle.

The Ossie Ostrich puppet is now on display at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra.

* Ossie Davis as Yar, a lemur patriarch whose occasional gruff demeanor is just a front covering his more compassionate interior.

Purlie is a musical with a book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, and Peter Udell, lyrics by Udell, and music by Gary Geld.

In the story, Grandfather Reilly is followed to Dublin by this white horse, and gives it to his grandsons, Ossie ( Oisín ) and Tayto.

* Irish Open is won by Ossie Pickworth ( Australia ).

Into the West is a film about two young boys, Tayto ( Conroy ) and Ossie ( Fitzgerald ), whose father ( Byrne ) was " King of the Travellers " until his wife, Mary, dies during the birth of their second son, Ossie.

Another noted speaker on the subject of Aesthetic Realism and how it opposes prejudice and racism is Alice Bernstein, whose articles on the subject have been published in hundreds of papers throughout the country, including in her serialized column, “ Alice Bernstein & Friends .” Mrs. Bernstein is the editor of The People of Clarendon County ( Chicago: Third World Press, 2007 ), a book that includes a play by Ossie Davis re-discovered by Bernstein, together with historical documents, photographs, and essays about Aesthetic Realism, which she describes as " the education that can end racism.

Though Count Ossie is clearly the most influential Binghi drummer, practically the thing inventing the genre of something in its present state, the recordings of Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus, as well as the Rastafari Elders, have contributed to the popularity of the music.

The production featured Rex Smith, Ossie Davis and F. Murray Abraham, produced by McDowell and directed by Robert Small, with Hayes narrating the performance.

This record was Jamaica's first to involve an element of African music-the drumming in the record was provided by Count Ossie, the lead nyabinghi drummer from the rastafarian camp, Camp David, in the hills above Kingston.

Ossie also became good friends with artist David Hockney during this period.

Many prominent leaders were present, including Coretta Scott King and Myrlie Evers-Williams, poet Maya Angelou, actor-activists Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, New York Governor George Pataki, and four New York City mayors — Abraham Beame, Ed Koch, David Dinkins, and Rudy Giuliani.

During his winning streak he defeated some notable boxers: Ezra Sellers ( future world cruiserweight title challenger ), Ossie Ocasio ( former cruiserweight champion and heavyweight title challenger ), David Bey ( former world rated contender ), and Jose Ribalta ( former world title contender ).

He also starred in Ossie Davis's Cotton Comes to Harlem ( 1970 ) as the Reverend Deke O ' Malley, who is under investigation by the movie's main characters.

" Although money was a problem at first, initial backing came from Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, Gary, Indiana Mayor Richard Hatcher, Aretha Franklin, Jim Brown, and Ossie Davis.

However, the team was wracked with dissension, with some players ( including Feller and Mel Harder ) going so far as to request that Bradley fire manager Ossie Vitt.

* 2005 – Ossie Davis, American actor, activist ( b. 1917 )

* The Tenth Level was a 1975 CBS television film about the experiment, featuring William Shatner, Ossie Davis, and John Travolta.

* 1919 – Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer ( d. 2008 )

** Ossie Vitt, professional baseball player and manager ( b. 1890 )

He now runs his own soccer school in the UK called the Ossie Ardiles Soccer School.

On 7 February 2008 Ossie Ardiles, along with his fellow countryman Ricky Villa, was inducted into the Tottenham Hotspur Hall of Fame.

Other members of the cast include Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, and John Turturro.

Ossie Davis starred in a television adaptation for the Kraft Television Theatre in 1955.

German productions of Herb Gardner's " I'm Not Rappaport " almost always cast the role of Midge Carter, the black character, famously portrayed in the U. S. by Ossie Davis, with a white actor in black makeup.

He was voiced by Ossie Davis.

Purify ( played by Ossie Davis ), Flipper Purify's ( played by Wesley Snipes ) father, makes reference to being born in Willacoochee, GA.

Ossie Brown, who served as East Baton Rouge Parish district attorney from 1972 — 1984, grew up in Baker and graduated from Baker High School.

In his first two title defenses, Holmes easily knocked out Alfredo Evangelista and Ossie Ocasio.

Although Ring En Español covered every boxing event worldwide, it concentrated more than anything else on Hispanic boxers, helping boxers like Wilfred Benítez, Wilfredo Gómez, Julio César Chávez, Eusebio Pedroza, Roberto Durán, Santos Laciar, Antonio Cervantes, Pipino Cuevas, Ossie Ocasio, Lupe Pintor, Rafael " Bazooka " Limón, Edwin Rosario, Héctor Camacho and many others become household names.

After he knocked out Camel in 8 in a rematch, countryman Ossie Ocasio won the WBA world title, becoming the second pair of Puerto Ricans to share world titles in the same division at the same time, after Alfredo Escalera and Samuel Serrano had achieved the feat in the 1970s at Jr. Lightweight.

It was a major disappointment for this big-stage player yet ' Ossie ' returned from the injury an equally graceful – if tougher – player.