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Growing up in Germany in the ’70s and ’80s, the daughter of a British army regimental sergeant major, Rhonda Drakeford wanted “to design planes or vehicles, because that’s what I was surrounded by”, says the designer. “I thought I was going to be in the army, I didn’t see a job outside.”
Her father had different ideas – “my dad was, like,…

