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Donna is an American designer and founder of two global brands, Donna Karan and DKNY. She started her way as a fashion designer in 1974, when she was the creative director of Anne Klein. In 1984, she founded her own company and since then she works for her own name and not for others.
Donna Karan
Donna was the first to introduce the concept of indispensable items that should be in every woman's closet. The list included 7 items of clothing: sweater, leggings, pants, jacket, suit, dress and blouse.
Among other fashion designers, she stands out for her simplicity - the pieces she designs do not contain elements of luxury or excessive creativity. They can be worn by everyone, from flamboyant socialites to ordinary women.
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Giorgio Armani is one of the most famous fashion designers in the world, from Italy. In addition to his place in the list of influential designers, he is also one of the richest people on the planet. He founded his own fashion house in 1975, and before that he worked with Nino Cerutti, the owner of Cerruti brand.
Giorgio Armani
Armani has been the creative director of his fashion house Giorgio Armani since its foundation and until now. He is not indifferent to the world around him - he often participates in charity projects, and in 2016 he announced that the fashion house would not use natural fur.
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In addition to his main job - the production of luxury clothes, Giorgio several times acted as a costume designer. He has worked on the clothes of the characters of "The Matrix", "The Untouchables", "American Gigolo".
Like Armani, Ralph Lauren is on the list of the richest people in the world. He was born in the USA in 1939 and founded his own brand Ralph Lauren in 1974.
Ralph Lauren
The fashion designer is distinguished by his love for the adaptation of rustic styles in the modern fashion world. For example, he often borrows details from country or western, skillfully integrating them with elegant polo clothing.
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His clothes are designed to emphasize the elegance and status of its owner, but do it neatly - without the screaming luxury.
Tom designs clothes for the brand named after himself - Tom Ford, and in his spare time he tries other professions. One of his most successful attempts was working in the cinema as a director - his filmography includes "Under Cover of Night" and "Lonely Man".
Tom Ford
He began his journey as a world-renowned fashion designer in the late 1980s. At first he held the post of designer for the Perry Ellis line of Marc Jacobs, and in 1990 he was appointed designer of women's clothing of the fashion house Gucci. In 1994 he was promoted to creative director. In 2007 he decided to launch his own brand and opened his first boutique in New York.
Tom Ford clothing is a deliberate demonstration of status. The fashion designer pays attention even to insignificant details, adhering to the opinion that the rich should demonstrate their wealth. This craving for chic is also evident in the brand's boutiques, where there are marble fireplaces, tables with crocodile inserts, and the floor is decorated with carpets made of natural beaver wool.
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Roberto was born in Florence in 1940. He did not do well at school and then at the institute, where he was expelled. In order to maintain his student status and to live carefree, he enrolled in an art school, where he mastered the technique of drawing and lettering on fabric.
Roberto Cavalli
He opened his own workshop and started his way in the fashion world. He registered his own brand Roberto Cavalli when he was 30 years old. He showed his first collection in Paris in 1972. Cavalli's favorite techniques in clothes are animal coloring, the use of leather, patchwork and glitter in the form of rhinestones and sequins.
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Marc Jacobs is an American designer and founder of his own brand Marc Jacobs. Marc started the development of his brand in the late 80s, but at the same time he worked for other companies, for example, he was creative director at Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2013. After leaving the fashion house, he concentrated on his own company.
Marc Jacobs
The things that Jacobs creates are provocative grunge, and his advertising campaigns are full-fledged art events. He is not afraid to flaunt and attract attention.
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Miuccia is the heiress of the famous Prada fashion house and granddaughter of its founder Mario Prada. She inherited the family business in 1978 and immediately began to promote it in the world of high fashion.
Miuccia Prada
In 1993, Miuccia realized that she did not just want to continue the family business, but to establish something of her own - thus appeared her clothing brand Miu Miu, which is strikingly different from the style of the fashion house.
Miuccia Prada is an example of a woman fashion designer who can be different. For Miu Miu she creates daring and sometimes provocative outfits, and at Prada she still respects tradition. But the further away she is from her grandfather's legacy, the more freedom she feels in her collections.
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Stella is the daughter of the famous musician, member of The Beatles Paul McCartney. She sewed her first jacket at the age of 13, and at 29 she presented her graduation collection as a graduate of the College of Arts. Her friends at the time, Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, showed the clothes. In 1997 she headed the artistic department of Chloé and in 2001 launched her own clothing line for the fashion house Gucci. At the same time Stella began to develop her own clothing brand, Stella McCartney.
Stella McCartney
Stella's main thing is to express her social position in things. She does not use natural leather and fur and supports the principles of ecological production.
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John Varvatos is one of the most famous menswear designers. In 1983 John joined Polo Ralph Lauren and in 1990 he moved to Calvin Klein as head men's designer.
John Varvatos
In 1995 he returned to Polo Ralph Lauren. In 1999 he founded his own company and is still developing it. The John Varvatos brand produces luxury menswear and accessories. John Varvatos has received several prestigious design awards including the Council of Fashion Designers of America, CFDA, and GQ magazine.
Tory Burch is an American designer and creative director of her own brand Tory Burch. Tory is on the list of the most influential women in America. Before opening her own company, she worked as a public relations specialist at Harper's Bazaar, and later she did advertising for wedding designer Vera Wang. Tori founded her own brand in 2004 and has been promoting it ever since.
Tori Burch
Tori's clothes are a mix of preppy and boho, but with an allowance for versatility. Her clothes were often glimpsed in the TV series "Gossip Girl.
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Riccardo Tisci is an Italian fashion designer, who during his career has managed to work with the most famous brands and fashion houses. Although Riccardo Tisci has not organized his own brand yet, this has not prevented him from becoming famous.
Riccardo Tisci
In the early years Riccardo worked at Puma, then was creative director at Givenchy, and in 2018 he moved to a similar position at Burberry, where he still works. Tisci's work is characterized by sensuality and a slight melancholy.
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Former figure skater Vera Wang touched the fashion world in 1970 when she was appointed senior editor of the fashion section of Vogue magazine. She continued to work on Vogue's editorial staff until 1987, when she left the position, giving it up to Anna Wintour.
Vera Wang
In 1990 Vera Wang opened her first bridal salon and registered her own brand Vera Wang. Since then, her wedding dresses have been synonymous with luxury and refined taste. She sewed wedding dresses for Chelsea Clinton, Ivanka Trump, Uma Thurman.
Vera Wang
The English fashion designer Kim Jones at the beginning of his career made an attempt to repeat the success of the world designers and open his own brand. He did set up a company, but it was not thanks to it that he became famous. It was collaboration with global brands that helped him to achieve fame.
Kim Jones
In the early years he worked with Hugo Boss, then became creative director of Alfred Dunhill and then worked as a stylist for magazines. In 2011 he became style director in the menswear department at Louis Vuitton. In September 2022 Jones was appointed artistic director at Fendi.
And although the designer is often accused of a lack of imagination - allegedly his collections are always based on archival pieces designed before he came along, this does not prevent Jones from winning prestigious awards. In 2021 he won the British Fashion Awards, the British Fashion Awards, for the third time.
Italian designer Alessandro Michele originally wanted to be a costume designer - that's what he studied. After graduating from the Costume Academy, the man went to Rome, where he met Silvia Venturini Fendi and began working for the Fendi fashion house as a designer of leather goods.
Alessandro Michele
In 2002, Alessandro was invited to Gucci. At first he was in charge of handbag design, then became deputy creative director, and in 2015 he was offered the position of temporary artistic director of the house. In this position Michele works until now.
Alessandro's trademark is maximalism in everything: styles, colors, design. The man does not strive to get rid of details, but on the contrary, adds them as much as possible.
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Demna Gvasalia is a Georgian fashion designer and founder of his brand Vetements. Before creating his own brand in 2014, Gvasalia worked with Maison Margiela and Louis Vuitton.
Demna Gvasalia
Since 2015 Demna has been creative director at Balenciaga, but he left the same position in his own company, where his brother Guram is now in charge of design. Demna's work is a rethinking of urban clothing, complemented by deconstructivism.
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Virginie Viard is the creative director of Chanel. She joined the maison in 1987, but then she was in charge of embroidery. Later the woman left for Chloé, following her mentor and friend Karl Lagerfeld. In 1997, she returned to Chanel again and this time stayed for a long time - at first she was responsible for couture collections, and in 2019 she became the official art director.
Virginie Viard
Virginie's work is characterized by practicality, but never excludes luxury and beauty.
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All of the names above are active couturiers who regularly present new collections and delight fans with fresh solutions and unexpected looks. In addition to them, there are designers who no longer take up needles and fabrics, but are deservedly called the best. They have left their imprint in the history of fashion.
Koco became a legend in the fashion world. Her merits are hard to exaggerate: she contributed to the adaptation of pants in women's closet, created the iconic little black dress, opened the global fashion house Chanel and proved that it is possible to knock people over, even in simple clothes of simple cut.
Coco Chanel
Her iconic tweed suits became the hallmark of the fashion house and a coveted closet item for millions of women.
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The Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace gave us the famous Versace fashion house and contributed to the popularization of the profession of a mannequin. For his shows he invited only the most famous models and actresses, who outshone each other by presenting his bold but stylish clothes.
Gianni Versace
Gianni has always been known for his boldness. Even in the 80's, when the public often criticized him, he used bright colors, frank necklines and large prints. He was not afraid to go against the norms, that's why he became one of the most famous fashion designers of the world throughout history.
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Christian Dior - the founder of the eponymous Dior fashion house knew everything about women's beauty. He knew how to emphasize the advantages and hide the disadvantages, so he became a breath of fresh air for fashionistas of his time.
Christian Dior
In the postwar years, he invented the new look style - romantic, feminine and perfectly emphasizes the beauty of the female body.
New Look Style Dress
Pierre Cardin is the founder of Pierre Cardin fashion house and one of the most important people in the history of the fashion world. Pierre Cardin began as a theatrical artist. Then he worked in the fashion house of the then popular Christian Dior, and in 1950 he founded his own brand. Pierre was one of the first to work with denim.
Pierre Cardin
Cardin actively promoted the concept of unisex clothing. Pierre's clothes were always a bit avant-garde, with clear geometric shapes, a bit abstract or even strange designs.
Pierre Cardin
If Cardin was a fashion designer who promoted unisex clothing, his colleague Yves Saint Laurent was the founder of this trend. At his suggestion, tuxedos and high boots migrated to women's closet.
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves always created luxurious clothes and clearly limited the circle of his consumers. He was sure that his clothes were suitable only for wealthy women who could afford to take not one but forty suitcases on a trip.
Salvatore Ferragamo became famous as a designer of beautiful shoes. It was he who invented wedge and square heels, which are still actively used by shoe brands.
Salvatore Ferragamo
When working on the next pair of shoes, Ferragamo paid attention not only to appearance, but also to comfort. He even studied anatomy to understand why shoes chafe and how to avoid it.
Cristobal Balenciaga is a fashion designer from Spain who went to Paris in pursuit of the French dream. He opened his own fashion house, several boutiques in the fashion capitals and left his mark on the development of fashion. He was respected by Coco Chanel and, according to her assurance, he was the only couturier who can create clothes from scratch - from the idea to cutting and sewing.
Cristobal Balenciaga
Cristobal liked dense fabrics that held their shape well. This made it possible to create sculpture-like silhouettes.
Balenciaga
Hubert de Givenchy opened his own fashion house when he was very young, at the age of 25. But his young age did not prevent him from working with world stars, including the actress Audrey Hepburn, for whom he designed both ordinary clothes and outfits for her heroines in films.
Hubert de Givenchy
Givenchy looked for inspiration in unusual places - the design of stores, avant-garde establishments, the decorations of couture shows.
Hubert de Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn
British fashion designer Alexander McQueen was drawn to the fashion industry from childhood - at the age of 16 he went to work as an apprentice in a studio, after graduating from art college he worked for Japanese fashion designer Koji Tatsuno, and at 25 he presented his first collection of dresses at London Fashion Week. In 1996 he received the post of artistic director at Givenchy, in 2001 he left for Gucci.
Alexander McQueen
Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani is an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Valentino fashion house. As a little boy, he did not miss the opportunity to take up a pencil and draw something special. The fame as a fashion designer, to him came with the gift of Elizabeth Taylor, who praised his clothes, which at that time did not have popularity around the world. He opened his first store in 1968. He retired from the fashion world in 2007, declaring it at his last show in Paris.
Valentino Garavani
Martin Margiela is a Belgian fashion designer, the father of deconstructivism and the founder of the famous brand Maison Margiela. Martin started his way in the late 80s. At first he worked for Jean Paul Gaultier, and then he decided to open his own brand and did it in 1989.
Martin Margiela
Until his retirement from the fashion world in 2009 Martin was a mysterious figure - he gave no interviews and tried to avoid any attention to his person. This mystique also carried over to the clothes - the trademark of the brand did not contain the name, but only numbers from 0 to 23. The designer's creations have always been distinguished by their eccentricity and a lot of innovative details.
Maison Margiela
American fashion designer Virgil Abloh began his career in 2009 and passed away in 2021, at the height of his popularity. Virgil worked at Louis Vuitton, where he was responsible for men's fashion, and also founded his own brand Off-White, which became a breakthrough in street fashion.
Virgil Ablo
His work is freedom and a new way of looking at familiar things. The same direction continues to be followed by his followers after his death.
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What kind of fashion designers are there?
There is no division within the fashion designer profession. The only difference between fashion designers is their field of activity: some work on ordinary clothes, some create costumes for films, and some are closer to accessories.
What kind of education does a fashion designer need?
A fashion designer should have a college degree in design, but often this is not enough - it is important to have a certain mindset, a good imagination, the ability to see beauty. It is the set of skills and abilities that defines a good fashion designer, not the diploma.
What is the difference between a fashion designer and a modeler?
The difference is insignificant, and lately the boundaries have almost disappeared. In the original understanding, a fashion designer is someone who works on an idea, and a modeler is someone who embodies it. But the modern world of fashion forces us to be universal, so both fashion designers and modelers have plus or minus the same functionality.
What is the difference between a fashion designer and a couturier?
A couturier is the same fashion designer, but in the world of haute couture, who works on couture, exclusive items.
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