Bruce Oldfield

Fashion designer, born in London, UK. He taught art, then studied fashion in Kent (1968–71) and in London (1972–3), after which he became a freelance designer. He designed for Bendel's store in New York City, and sold sketches to Yves Saint Laurent. He showed his first collection in London in 1975. He designs evening dresses for members of the royal family and film-stars, as well as making ready-to-wear clothes. His autobiography Rootless was published in 2004.

Bruce Oldfield (born July 14, 1950) is a British fashion designer.

Oldfield never knew his natural parents, an Irish mother and Jamaican father who was a boxer. As a teenager he returned to Barnardo's and following a grammar school education, in Ripon, North Yorkshire, went to study fashion and design at Ravensbourne College of Art in Kent, from 1968 to 1971. He then considered teacher training college but with the aid of a grant from Barnardo's, switched to further study fashion at St. Martin's School of Art in London.

On graduating in 1975, Oldfield set up his own ready-to-wear label, followed by a couture label in 1978. Oldfield had returned from an unsuccessful sales trip to America and Rampling had come across some of his designs in New York. Although Oldfield had already received a fair amount of editorial attention, it was Rampling's celebrity endorsement that propelled him to commercial success.

In 1980, Oldfield was awarded the OBE for services to fashion and industry.