[3] Sinclair selected one of Fontana's Liberty-print cotton hotpants ensembles for Hornby as her womenswear look, alongside a Blades man's suit.
[1] As a designer, Hornby enjoyed mixing printed textiles,[1] and in 1972, the unisex quality of some of her work was noted by The Baltimore Sun.
[1] She opened a small boutique with only one in-house seamstress on East 60th Street, Manhattan, called Hornby of Plenty, in September 1975, which was well received by buyers who had formerly had to travel to London to see her wholesale collections.
[5] In 1979, Hornby was selling her work to over 40 shops across the United States, and was described as a master of unexpected colour and pattern mixes which looked anything but haphazard.
[6] Women's Wear Daily reported in 1994 that Hornby had stepped in to take over the Chicago-based Becky Bisoulis brand after Bisoulis fell ill.[7][8] By 2005, Hornby had moved to Connecticut and opened an antiques shop there, also offering antique-buying trips to France (where she owned an apartment in Aix-en-Provence) for American collectors.