Zandra Rhodes may be 73, but she still wears platform heels and hot-pink hair. The British designer gained fame for her edgy, eponymous fashion line in the 1970s, only to close up shop in the 1990s. But she’s now in the midst of a renaissance, which those involved in a MassArt retrospective of her work have credited to her “originality, authenticity, and tenacity.”

A version of this article appeared in the April 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review.