- Calvin Klein
Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is a well-known American fashion designer. In 1968, he launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. In addition to clothing, Calvin Klein also gave his name to a range of perfumes, including CK One and CK Be (fragrances for both genders), now owned by Coty Inc. Swatch Group manufactures watches and jewelry under the Calvin Klein and Calvin Klein Jeans brands. - Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963 in New York City) is an American fashion designer. He attended the High School of Art and Design and graduated in 1981. From there, Jacobs entered the Parsons School of Design in New York City. At Parsons, Jacobs won the Perry Ellis Gold Thimble Award in 1984, and in the same year was also awarded the Chester Weinberg Gold Thimble Award and the Design Student of the Year Award. - 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. - Elie Saab
Elie Saab, sometimes known simply as 'ES', is a Lebanese fashion designer. In 1982, Saab launched his own Beirut-based fashion label when he was just 18 years old. His main workshop is in Lebanon, a country to which he remains deeply attached. He also has workshops in Milan and Paris. Saab is self-trained. He started sewing as a child and knew that one day he would make a living out of it. In 1981 he moved to Paris to study fashion, … - Yves Saint-Laurent
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (born August 1, 1936 in Oran, Algeria), is a French fashion designer. - Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell (born May 22 1970) is an English supermodel, actress, singer, businesswoman, and author. - Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum (born June 1, 1973) is an actress, TV presenter, fashion designer, television producer and singer hailing from Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. - Gwen Stefani
Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer, songwriter, fashion designer and occasional actress. Stefani debuted in 1992 as the frontwoman of the third wave ska band No Doubt, whose 1995 album "Tragic Kingdom" propelled them to stardom, selling sixteen million copies worldwide. It spawned the singles "Just a Girl", "Spiderwebs", and the airplay number-one "Don't Speak". The band's popularity went into decline with its third album "Return of Saturn" (2000), … - Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani (born 11 July, 1934) is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. - Betsey Johnson
Betsey Johnson (born August 10, 1942 in Wethersfield, Connecticut) is a fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. She also is known for doing a cartwheel at the end of her fashion shows. She took many dance classes as a child and adolescent which inspired her love of costumes. After high school, Johnson studied at the Pratt Institute and then later graduated from Syracuse University where she was a member of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority. - Michael Kors
Michael D. Kors (born 1959) is an American fashion designer. Kors was born on Long Island, New York and is half Jewish. His mother is Joan Krystosek Kors, a former model. Michael Kors is renowned for his classic, chic, and luxurious but sensible aesthetic on American sportswear and other clothing styles. One critic said, "His clothes have never lost that clarity, that versatility, that American, self-possessed, no-brainer chic. - Tyra Banks
Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American supermodel, television personality and a talk show hostess. She first emerged to prominence on the runways of Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo, and the U.S., but her work in the commercial world was her breakthrough. She is best known as hostess/judge of the reality television show "America's Next Top Model", since its 2003 debut on UPN (later CW), … - Isaac Mizrahi
Isaac Mizrahi (born October 14, 1961) is an American fashion designer. - Stella McCartney
Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer. - Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld is widely recognized as one of the more influential fashion designers of the late 20th century. He has collaborated with a variety of different fashion labels, with Chloé, Fendi and Chanel the most notable. But with contracts with companies internationally, throughout his career, he has probably built the most complicated resume of any designer. Furthermore, he has his own labels, which he launched in the early 1980s, including perfume and clothing. - Ashley Olsen
Ashley Fuller Olsen (born June 13, 1986) is an American actress and entrepreneur. She is fraternal twins with Mary-Kate Olsen and they have appeared in television and films since infancy. Since then, they have attained international fame through numerous television programs, films, interviews, as well as commercial endorsements. - Nicky Hilton
Nicholai "Nicky" Olivia Hilton (born October 5, 1983 in New York City, New York) is an American fashion model, socialite, and fashion designer. Hilton is also an heiress to a part of the Hilton Hotel chain, as well as to about 5%-15% of her father's real estate fortune and investments. She shares her nickname with her grandfather's brother, Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, who died 14 years before she was born. - Tom Ford
Tom Ford (born August 27, 1962) is an American fashion designer. He gained international fame for his legendary turnaround of the Gucci fashion house and the creation of the Tom Ford label, becoming one of the world's most influential designers. - Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen CBE (born Lee Alexander McQueen, 17 March 1969) is an English fashion designer. - Donna Karan
Donna Karan is a fashion designer and the creator of the DKNY (Donna Karan New York) clothing label. She was born Donna Ivy Faske on October 9, 1948 in Forest Hills, New York. She grew up in Hewlett, Long Island with her step-father who was a tailor and her mother who was a model. - Liz Claiborne
Anne Elisabeth Jane "Liz" Claiborne (March 31 1929 - June 26 2007) was a Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur. Claiborne is best known for founding Liz Claiborne Inc. which in 1986 became the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500. - Eddie Bauer
Eddie Bauer is a clothing store chain. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, and a subsidiary of Eddie Bauer Holdings (formerly Spiegel, Inc.), the company was founded in Seattle in 1920 as "Eddie Bauer's Sport Shop" by its namesake, Eddie Bauer (1899 - 1986), who invented the first down parka in 1936 and was also the first independent company that the United States Army hired and allowed to use a logo on the Army issued uniform...(U.S. Design Patent 119,122). - Jean-Paul Gaultier
Jean-Paul Gaultier (born April 24 1952, in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne) is a French fashion designer and past television presenter. - Max Azria
Max Azria is a Jewish American fashion designer who founded the popular midscale women clothing line BCBG in 1989. Originally from Tunisia, Max Azria moved to the United States to enter the fashion world. Moving to California, he created BCBG, an acronym for the French saying "bon chic, bon genre", which in English means "good style good attitude." BCBG was designed to bring European sophistication to American women. - Vera Wang
Vera Wang (born June 27, 1949) is an American fashion designer based in New York, NY, USA. She is known for her wedding gown collection, among other specialties. She was raised in an affluent family and attended The Chapin School as well as the Sorbonne in Paris. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in art history. Her mother often took her to fashion shows in Paris. Her father started and owned a chemical company. - 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. - Mary-Kate Olsen
Mary-Kate Olsen (born June 13, 1986) is an American actress and entrepreneur. She is fraternal twins with Ashley Olsen and they have appeared in television and films since infancy. Since then, they have attained international fame through numerous television programs, films, interviews, as well as commercial endorsements. - Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey), better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, singer, and actress. Latifah's work in music and film has earned her a Grammy Award, five additional Grammy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination as well. - 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. - Kate Spade
Kate Spade (born Katherine Noel Brosnahan in Kansas City, Missouri in 1962) is the co-founder and namesake of the designer brand Kate Spade New York. - Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers is an American comedian, talk show host, businesswoman, and celebrity. She is known for her brash manner and loud, gruff voice with a heavy metropolitan New York accent. Rivers is the National Chairwoman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and is a board member of God's Love We Deliver. Like the ground-breaking Phyllis Diller, whose career preceded and overlapped hers, Rivers' act relied heavily on poking fun at herself. - Claudia Schiffer
Claudia Schiffer (born August 25, 1970) is a German supermodel and actress, who reached the height of her popularity during the 1990s. Schiffer is one of the world's most successful supermodels, appearing on over 500 magazine covers and is thought to be one of the wealthiest German women of her time, with "Forbes" estimating Schiffer to be worth £35 million. - Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin is a fashion designer. He was born on July 7, 1922, near Venice, Italy, to French parents. He moved to Paris in 1945. There he studied architecture and worked with Paquin after the war. Work with Schiaparelli followed until he became head of Christian Dior's tailleure atelier in 1947, but was denied work at Balenciaga. He founded his own house in 1950 and began with haute couture in 1953. Cardin was known for his avant-garde style and his space age designs. - 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. - Lane Bryant
Lena Himmelstein Bryant Malsin (1879? - September 26, 1951) was an American clothing designer and retailer who founded the plus-size clothing chain Lane Bryant. - Perry Ellis
Perry Ellis (March 3, 1940 - May 30, 1986) was an American fashion designer who founded a sportswear house in the mid-1970s. - Tim Gunn
Timothy M. Gunn (born 1953) is an American fashion maven and television personality. Chair of Fashion Design at Parsons The New School for Design from August 2000-March 2007, he is best known as on-air mentor to designers on the Bravo reality television program "Project Runway". - Donatella Versace
Donatella Versace (b.1955) is a prosperous fashion designer from Italy, also responsible for establishing the Versace imperium and the owner of a great deal (about one fifth)of the overall capital of the company. Presently, she is the CEO of the Versace corporation and manages the fashion line. - Martin Margiela
Martin Margiela (born April 9, 1957 in Leuven, Belgium) is a Belgian fashion designer. He studied at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, graduated 1980 and worked as a freelance designer for five years after graduation. Between 1985 and 1987 he worked for Jean Paul Gaultier, before showing his first collection under his own label in 1988. Margiela has a store in the West Village in New York City and also sells at Barneys. In his store, salespeople wear white lab coats. - Suzy Menkes
Suzy Menkes (born 24 December 1943) has been head fashion reporter for the International Herald Tribune since 1988. Menkes was born in Britain. She was educated at Brighton and Hove High School. In the 1960s, she went as a teenager to Paris to study dressmaking. Viewing her first couture show at Nina Ricci sparked her interest in high fashion. On her return from Paris, she went to Cambridge University to read history and English literature.
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