One of his first jobs was as an assistant at furniture-maker Waring and Gillow (during which time he helped to decorate the palace of King Zog of Albania)
On the advice of fashion designer Edward Molyneux and thanks to his mother's dressmaking account at Fortnum's, with a grudging pounds 1,000 from his father, that launched Bunny as a couturier.
He opened his fashion house in 1937. The personality of his creations quickly earned him the loyalty of a renowned clientele, the Lygon sisters, Princess Marina, and Vivien Leigh, who then lived with Laurence Olivier and was about to shoot Gone With the Wind.
When war broke out, Roger joined the rifle artillery and multiplied personal exploits in Italy and North Africa, and saved the life of a wounded comrade who had been abandoned in No Man's Land.
But beyond his feats of arms, it is already by his attitude that he marked the memories, marching in combat with a chiffon scarf around his neck and a copy of Vogue magazine in his pocket, and answering " Shopping! " to a soldier who asked him what he is doing there under the deluge of bombs which was pounding the monastery of Monte Cassino.
and a car with one crazy mix of tassels, fringe, and quilted diamond tuck designs painted on. 1954
one of his 2 brothers served with MI5 in Teheran and Hong Kong during WW2
I looked around the internet for an hour and can find no words about his unbelievable car
https://www.brightbazaarblog.com/2010/09/elle-decoration-october-2010.html
https://voxsartoria.com/
https://www.dandy-magazine.com/bunny-roger-lexception-qui-confirme-la-regle/
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw81118/Bunny-Roger
http://tweedlandthegentlemansclub.blogspot.com/2016/12/remembering-bunny-roger.html
https://therake.com/stories/icons/a-dandy-life/
A 1920's pimp mobile? Hmm. Well? On another note, he was quite a character wasn't he. Mad dogs and Englishmen you know.
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