His mother Joan, worked in a chemist shop in Winchmore Hill, his father, Sydney, was an on-course bookmaker.

Fish was apprenticed in shirtmaking, and by the early 1960s was designing shirts at traditional men's outfitters Turnbull & Asser of Jermyn Street.

Notable celebrities of the 1960s and 1970s such as Peter Sellers, Lord Snowdon and David Bowie[5] wore Fish's designs.

[6] Perhaps the most controversial of Fish's designs was the "dress" designed to be worn by men, which was occasionally worn by such rock stars as David Bowie (including on the cover of the album The Man Who Sold the World) and Mick Jagger in the Hyde Park charity concert (including in the film Performance).

Jerry Cornelius, Michael Moorcock's fictional poster child for this era, often wore elaborate tailor-made suits by Mr.