{{Short description|Scottish fashion designer}} '''Ronald Paterson''' (1917 – 1993 <ref>{{cite web|title=V&A collections|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O365719/hat-ronald-paterson/|accessdate=8 August 2013}}</ref>) was a Paris-trained Scottish fashion designer.
In 1936, he left Scotland to study at the Piccadilly Institute of Design in London. In 1947, he opened his own couture house and had a lot of success in the following 20 years; his fashion house closed in 1968. He had many important clients, including the family of Castle Howard. In 1966 he won a fashion award from ''The Sunday Times''. He also worked as a fashion consultant to a number of films, including ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977) and ''The Adventurers''.
His archives are at the Victoria and Albert Museum.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/resources/archives/fashion_archives/index.html |title=Archived copy |website=www.vam.ac.uk |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621065412/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/resources/archives/fashion_archives/index.html |archive-date=21 June 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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===Sources=== *''The Cutting Edge – 50 years of British Fashion'', Overlook Press, 1997
==External links== * {{cite web |publisher= Victoria and Albert Museum |url= http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1486_couture/explore.php |title= Interactive timeline of couture houses and couturier biographies|date= 29 July 2015 }}
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