[2] Her first backer was the theatre producer Michael White, whose wife, the former model Sarah Hillsdon,[3] designed for Quorum until her pregnancy.
This led to the Clark/Pollock design partnership at Quorum[4] where the fashion become more subtle, as the mini was replaced by the midi and maxi hemlines.
Clark has been credited with opening the Quorum boutique with Pollock and he was designing clothes whilst he was still at the Royal College of Art.
[1][6] Other Quorum designers included Michael Rainey (before he launched his own boutique Hung On You in winter 1965),[7] Sheridan Barnett, who later launched label Barnett and Brown with Sheilagh Brown[8] and the textile designer Frances Ronaldson, who went on to marry Pollock's ex-husband, Nick Pollock.
[10][11] Palmer declared that the agency's aim was "to change the image of British manhood and put the boy, as opposed to the girl, on the magazine cover in the future.