Joan Burstein obituary (opens in new tab)

Co-founder of Browns, the celebrated London fashion store, who encouraged young designers such as Alexander McQueen For London’s fashion-aware in 1970, South Molton Street was just a shortcut through dull Mayfair from Selfridges in Oxford Street to the Fenwick store in Bond Street. And then Joan Burstein, with her husband, Sidney, acquired No 27, an 18th-century row house, from Sir William Pigott-Brown, and kept his name for their clothes store. Over the next 50 years, much of South Molton St...