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Zandra Rhodes: Men can't cope with successful women

She says they need to feel they're in charge

Zandra Rhodes has her own museum

Fashion designer Zandra Rhodes believes a successful relationship works when men are given control.

‘Men are much more insecure than they make out,’ she says.

‘And I think that, in the main, a successful woman has to bow down to a man if they want the relationship to work.’

Zandra, 67, admits her views have strengthened her 24-year relationship with Salah Hassanein.

‘Men can’t cope with a successful woman,’ she tells Observer Woman magazine.

‘I’m quite old and wise now, and my partner’s a lot older than me, so to some extent it’s all right.

'But I think in a sense the wife has to always be the supporter of the husband.’

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