[5] After leaving college, Dagworthy began working with the wholesale company Radley, which then owned the brand Ossie Clark.
She designed some of Roxy Music's stage costumes and also made Ferry a pair of monogrammed black silk pyjamas to wear in hospital while he was having his tonsils out.
Clothes combined bright patterns and colours, including florals, stripes and batik prints in shades such as scarlet and orange.
[8][9] According to Dagworthy, the inspirations for her designs included menswear, workwear, ethnic clothing and the detailing found on shirts.
[10] Exports proved a particularly strong market for the label, and during the early 1980s almost half of Wendy Dagworthy output went to Italy.
[8] As her business grew, Dagworthy became acknowledged as one of the key players in the London fashion scene, alongside her former assistant Betty Jackson, Jasper Conran and Paul Smith.
[4] The label exhibited in Paris, Milan and New York and Dagworthy was among the guests at the Downing Street fashion industry reception in 1984 where Katharine Hamnett wore a Pershing protest T-shirt.
[2] Dagworthy was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours "for services to the fashion industry.
[16] She was featured on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs programme on Sunday 2 November 2014; her chosen favourite tracks were "No Woman, No Cry" by Bob Marley and the Wailers and "La Vie En Rose" by Grace Jones, her favourite book being The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott, and her luxury item "a case of red lipstick and a fridge to keep it cool.