- Clara Driscoll, Designer
Clara Driscoll (1861-1944) of Tallmadge, Ohio, was the creator of the first Tiffany lamp as well as the designer and maker of many later lamps including the Wisteria, the Dragonfly, and the Peony. She was in charge of the Tiffany Studios' Women's Glass Cutting Department (the "Tiffany Girls") who chose the colors of the glass for the Tiffany company. - Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy LVMH.PA is a luxury French fashion and leather goods brand and company, headquartered in Paris, France. The company is named after its founder Louis Vuitton (August 41821-February 271892), who designed and manufactured luggage, as a Malletier during the second half of the nineteenth century. Vuitton was born in Jura, France (now part of the commune of Lavans-sur-Valouse), but moved to Paris in 1835. - Kenneth Cole
Kenneth Cole (b. March 23, 1954) is an American clothing designer. Born in Brooklyn, he is a graduate of Emory University. In 1982, Kenneth Cole got his start by selling shoes out of the back of a 40-foot trailer in Midtown Manhattan. At that time, the only people who could get parking permits from the city were utility companies or production companies shooting full-length films. Kenneth Cole therefore changed his company name from Kenneth Cole, Inc. - Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace (December 2, 1946 - July 15, 1997) was an accomplished Italian designer of both clothing and theater costumes. He was influenced by Andy Warhol, Ancient Roman and Greek art as well as modern abstract art; he is considered one of the most colorful and talented designers of the late 20th century. Gianni was the founder of famous fashion tag Versace. The first boutique was opened in Milan's Via della Spiga in 1978, and its popularity was immediate. - Salvatore Ferragamo
Salvatore Ferragamo (June 5, 1898 - August 7, 1960) was a 20th century Italian footwear designer, providing Hollywood's "glitterati" and many others with unique hand-made designs and spawning an emporium of luxury consumer goods for men and women, with stores in some of the most important cities of the world. Ferragamo started his career in California during the 1920s, initially creating specific designs for Hollywood productions. - Bill Blass
William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his expensive womenswear, notable for its tailoring and its innovative combinations of textures and patterns. He is the recipient of many fashion awards, including seven Coty Awards and the Fashion Institute of Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award (1999). - Christian Louboutin
Christian Louboutin (born 1963) is a well known French shoe designer. - Stuart Weitzman
Stuart A. Weitzman (born in 1942; wife, Jane Weitzman) is the designer of the internationally famous, high-end shoe company, Stuart Weitzman Inc. Stuart Weitzman's trademark use of unique materials (e.g., cork, vinyl, lucite, wallpaper, and 24-karat gold), and his attention to detail, garnered him and his company a global following. His shoes are sold in 45 countries. Weitzman's father, Seymour Weitzman, started a shoe factory in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in the late 1950s, … - Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck has designed an array of masterpieces from hotels to toothbrushes motorbikes to furniture. His love of streamlined, "horn" shapes is obvious and this is what makes his ingenuity appear inexhaustible. Philippe Starck is undoubtedly a star in the design and architectural world. - John Varvatos
John Varvatos is an American contemporary menswear fashion designer. He grew up in the metro Detroit suburb of Allen Park, a downriver community situated south of the city of Detroit. He attended Allen Park High School. His last name is pronounced the same as Barbados. The name Varvatos is of Modern Greek origin from the island of Kephalonia, a Latin alphabet transliteration of - Helmut Lang
Helmut Lang (born on March 10 1956 in Vienna), is an Austrian fashion designer, known for his minimalist, deconstructivist, and often severe designs. The fashion label he created bears his name. Originally from Vienna where he set up his own fashion boutique in 1979, Lang branched out to Paris in the early 1980s to be closer to the international fashion scene. He became famous for his simple but refined designs, his slim suits in black or white, … - Kenneth Jay Lane
Kenneth Jay Lane (born April 22, 1930) American costume jewelry designer. Born in Detroit, Michigan he is an alumnus of the University of Michigan and the Rhode Island School of Design. He was first a shoe designer for Delman and Christian Dior and he used his free time to create fun and flashy baubles. They were such an instant success that Saks Fifth Avenue sold its entire initial inventory in one day. - Derek Lam
Derek Lam is a fashion designer from San Francisco, California. He is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design. Lam started out as an assistant for Michael Kors in the 90s. In 2005, Lam won the CFDA Perry Ellis Swarovski Award for new designers and started his own line of clothes. In addition to clothes, Derek Lam also has a line of shoes and jewelry. He is known for his pretty, girly fabrics backed by clean, crisp silhouettes. - Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen (February 11, 1902 - March 24, 1971) was a Danish Jewish architect and designer, exemplar of the "Danish Modern" style. Among his architecturanal Bank building in Copenhagen, The Royal Danish Embassy in Knightsbridge, London as well as a number of town halls and other buildings in his native Denmark. Jacobsen has created a number of highly original chairs and other furniture. He has received several international distinctions and medals. - William Morris
William Morris was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement, best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain. His family was wealthy, and he went to school at Marlborough College, but left in 1851 after a student rebellion there. - Sid Meier
Sidney K. Meier (born 1954 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American programmer and designer of some of the most commercially and critically successful computer strategy games of all time. Meier has won several accolades for both his contributions to the computer games industry and for the titles that have gained huge commercial successes. Meier is considered by many as one of the most important figures in the computer games industry. - Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born June 10, 1965) is an English actress, fashion model, producer and designer. - Karen Walker
Karen Walker is a noted New Zealand fashion designer, whose customers include Madonna and Kelly Osbourne. She left school, after attending Epsom Girls Grammar School in 1988 to begin her fashion training, graduating in 1990. She has said that she started with NZ$100, which she used for material for a shirt. By 1995, she had opened two stores. In 1998, she began selling to Barneys New York. - George Nelson
George Nelson (1908-1986) was, together with Charles & Ray Eames, one of the founding fathers of American modernism. George Nelson was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1908. He died in New York City in 1986. George Nelson studied Architecture at Yale University, where he graduated in 1928. He also received a bachelor degree in fine arts in 1931. A year later while preparing for the Paris Prize competition he won the Rome prize. - Verner Panton
Verner Panton (13 February 1926 - 5 September 1998) is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant colors. His style was very "1960s" but regained popularity at the end of the 20th century; as of 2004, Panton's most well-known furniture models are still in production (at Vitra, among others). - Hussein Chalayan
Hussein Chalayan MBE in 1970. He graduated from the Turkish Maarif College of his hometown, and his family having moved to England in 1982, obtained British citizenship and later studied design in London. While finishing his studies at the Central St. Martin’s School of Art in 1993, his senior year collection, “The Tangent Flows“, was displayed in Browns Windows. In 1995, Chalayan beat 100 competitors to clinch a top London fashion design award. - Anna Wintour
Anna Wintour (born November 3, 1949, in London) is the editor-in-chief of American "Vogue", a position she has held since 1988. She became interested in fashion as a teenager. Her father, Charles, editor of the "Evening Standard", often consulted with her on how to make the newspaper's coverage relevant to the youth of mid-1960s London. After dropping out of school at 16, she began a career in fashion journalism. - Ross Lovegrove
Ross Lovegrove (born, 1958, Wales) is an industrial designer, perhaps best known for his work on the Sony Walkman. He studied at the Royal College of Art, London in 1983 where he completed his master of design. - Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question "Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?" Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question, … - Ron Arad
Ron Arad (b. 1951) is an industrial designer, artist and architect. He attended the Jerusalem Academy of Art between 1971-73 and the Architectural Association in London from 1974-79. He has produced furniture and lighting design for many (mainly Italian) companies including Alessi, Vitra, Flos, Artemide and Kartell. His most notable industrial design works include the Tom Vac stackable chair for Vitra, and the Book Worm for Kartell. - Richard Hutten
Richard Hutten (born: 1967 Zwollerkerspel, The Netherlands) is a Dutch designer. Hutten started his own design studio in 1991 in Rotterdam after graduating from the Academy for Industrial Design in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Hutten's work is part of the permanent collections of the Centraal Museum Utrecht, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. - Peter Molyneux
Peter Molyneux OBE (born 5 May 1959 in Guildford, Surrey, UK) is a computer game designer and game programmer, responsible for well known "God games" "Populous" and "Black & White", among others, as well as "Business Strategy" games such as "Theme Park" and most recently, "The Movies". In August 1997 Peter left Bullfrog Productions to establish a new development team, Lionhead Studios. - Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray (August 9, 1878 - October 31, 1976) was an Irish lacquer artist, furniture designer and architect now well-known for incorporating luxurious lacquer work into the stark International Style aesthetic. - Alvar Aalto
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the Nordic countries. His work includes architecture, furniture and glassware. - Harry Bertoia
Harry Bertoia (b. March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italy. d. November 6, 1978 in Barto, Pennsylvania, United States, Obituary piece) was an Italian-born artist and modern furniture designer. At the age of 15 he traveled from Italy to Detroit to visit his older brother, however he chose to stay and enrolled in Cass Technical High School, where he studied art and design and learned the art of handmade jewelry making. - Ettore Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass is an Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century. He founded the Memphis Group. Originally an architect, Sottsass became a consulting designer for typewriter manufacturer Olivetti. Ettore Sottsass is one of the leading members of the ‘Memphis’ group founded in 1981 with Barbara Radice as public relations/art director. The group’s main aim was to bring back radical designs and did so through toasters that the whole group designed together. - Jasper Morrison
Jasper Morrison is an English product and furniture designer. Morrison was born in London, England but brought up in New York, USA. He was educated at Bryanston School. He received a Bachelor of Design degree from Kingston Polytecnic Design School in 1982 and a Masters degree in Design from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1985. He also studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, formerly the Hochschule der Künste (HdK). - Richard Tyler
Richard Tyler (born 1947) is a fashion designer. He was born in Sunshine, Melbourne (Australia) and now resides in [[Los Angeles, California and New York]. He has received great acclaim for dressing Hollywood celebrities. In 2006, Tyler appeared as guest judge on the reality television program "Project Runway". - Fornasetti
Piero Fornasetti was an Italian painter, sculptor, interior decorator and engraver. He lived most of life in Milan, attending the Brera Art Academy from 1930-32 when he was expelled for insubordination. During World War II, he went into exile in Switzerland from 1943-46. He created more than 11,000 items, many featuring the face of a woman, operatic soprano Lina Cavalieri, as a motif. Fornasetti found her face in a 19th century magazine. - Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910, in Kirkkonummi, Finland – September 1, 1961, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) was a Finnish American architect and product designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism. - John Rocha
John Rocha is an Irish fashion designer of Chinese and Portuguese descent. He moved to Ireland after graduating from the the Croydon School of Art, London. Known for his hand-crafting, beading and apliquée to garments, Rocha first established a name for himself with his "Chinatown" label in Dublin in the 1980s. By 1993, he was named British Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards. Rocha currently runs his own "John Rocha", "John Rocha Jeans", … - Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Paul Ive CBE (born February 1967) is Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, iPod and the iPhone. - Georg Jensen
Georg Arthur Jensen (August 31, 1866, Raadvad, Denmark - October 2, 1935, Copenhagen) was a Danish silversmith. Born in 1866, Jensen was the son of a knife grinder in the town of Raadvad just to the north of Copenhagen. Jensen began his training in goldsmithing at the age of 14 in Copenhagen. His apprenticeship, with the firm Guldsmed Andersen, ended in 1884 and this freed young Georg to follow his artistic interests. - Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini (born 1931 in Milan) is an Italian designer and architect. He played an important part in the development of Italian design. He also worked, aside from his artistic career, for Casabella, Modo and Domus magazines. In the seventies he was one of the main personalities of the Radical design movement. In 1979 he joined the Studio Alchimia as a partner and here he worked with Ettore Sottsass and Michele De Lucchi. - Marcel Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer, architect and furniture designer, was an influential Hungarian-born modernist of Jewish descent. One of the fathers of Modernism, Breuer showed a great interest in modular construction and simple forms. Known as Lajkó, Breuer studied and taught at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, stressing the combination of art and technology, and eventually became the head of the school's cabinet-making shop.
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