Chanel
Coco Chanel was born in Saumur on the 19th of August 1883. The mother of Coco died in 1895 and her father put her in the orphanage. She went to a covent school run by nuns, so she never went to collage and learned all her knowledge from the nuns. Coco Chanel became well-known from the "corseted silhouette" and the sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style and of course, the little black dress. When Coco Chanel died, the brand was followed up by Karl Lagerfeld, who unfortunately past away in February 2019. Nowadays, Virginie Viard is the creative director of Chanel.
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Givenchy
Givenchy is a French fashion house, established in 1952 by Hubert de Givenchy (1927-2018). Hubert de Givenchy was inspired by his mothers fashion magazine and moved at the age of 17 to Paris to work for well-known couturiers. He worked for Jacques Fath, Robert Piguet, Lucien Lelong and Elsa Schiaparelli. In 1952 opened Hubert de Givenchy his first own fashion house and presented on the 2th of February his first couture collection. Givenchy’s style is luxurious, with a lot of attention to lines. He often used solid areas in colors like red, blue and black. Givenchy worked with famous people such as: Elizabeth Taylor, princes Gracia of Monaco and of course, Audrey Hepburn, who later became the ambassador of Givenchy. Right now, Ozwald Boateng is the creative director of Givenchy and Riccardo Tisci is the designer of the haute-couture and prêt-à-porter line of Givenchy.
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Fendi
Fendi is an Italian fashion house which is well-known for their ‘Baguette-handbags’. You wear this handbag closely underneath the arm, like you are holding a baguette and was designed by Silvia Fendi. Fendi was created in 1918 and in 1925 it was launched als a fur and leather store in Rome, but at the moment it is known as a luxury multi national fashion house. Fendi is part of LVMH and Karl Lagerfeld was creative director of Fendi.
Fendi was created by a women named Adele Casagrande. She opened her first fur and leather store on the Via del Plebiscito in Rome. When Adele married Edoardo Fendi in 1925, they decided to name the brand Fendi. The five daughters of the couple started to work for the brand later and every daughter inherited 20 percent of the company. In 1968 Karl Lagerfeld became creative director of Fendi, he designed the double F-symbol. When Karl Lagerfeld past away in february 2019, Silvia Fendi took over as creative director.
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Dior
Christian Dior was a famous and influential French Fashion Designer. He was born on the 21st of Januari (which is my birthday too coincidentally) in 1905 in Granville, Normandy. He moved with his parents to Paris, where he studied political Sciences. He was interested in architecture and sketched in his free time among which clothing. The designs became so good that he sold them to couture houses and he illustrated the fashion attachment of Le Figaro. This talent led to being a designer at Robert Piguet. In 1941 he switched to Lucien Lelong. Marcel Boussac, a textile tycoon, decided five years later to finance Diors fashion house, and bought a house at the Avenue Montaigne in Paris, where Dior still is right now.
In 1947 Dior launched it’s first collection for Spring/Summer, which vastly became well-known as the ‘New Look’: very small tailles with wide skirts. Dior is recognized by ‘La Chamber Syndicale de la Haute Couture’ as a haute couture fashion house. Besides haute couture Dior also designed jewelry. Dior died unexpectedly in 1957.
Diors assistent Yves Saint Laurent took over in 1957 and presented his first collection in 1958, Trapeze.
Since 1997 John Galliano is creative director of Dior. On the 1st of March in 2011 Galliano was fired because of anti-Semitic statements. After Galliano Raf Simons was in charge of the company and right now Maria Grazia Chiuri is creative director of Dior.
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Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent was a French fashiondesigner. He lived from the 1st of August in 1936 till the 1st of June in 2008. He was the sun of Charles Saint Laurent, a Pied-Noir and manager of an insurance company. When Yves was 17, he left his parents house to work for the designer Christian Dior. When Dior died in 1957, Yves got the chance at age of 21 to take over the fashion house Dior. Dior wasn’t doing very well at the time. The designs of Yves were so innovative, that they led to big succes. For example the trapezium dress from 1958, it was wide around the waist and not fitted. Yves used bright and dark colors and he designed also a collection with only black items.
During the Algerian war Yves was called to serve the French army. After 20 days he was included in a psychiatric hospital due to a nervous breakdown, he was treated with electroshock therapy. Because of his mental breakdown Saint Laurent was stripped headed the fashion house Dior. Together with his partner Pierre Bergé he started his own fashion house, also known as YSL.
During the 60’s, Yves set trends like the pantsuit, the ‘beatnik look’ and the over-the-knee point boots. Mid 60’s he designed a collection of woolen tricot dresses inspired of the work of Pier Mondriaan.
YSL clients were for example his ‘muse’ Loulou de la Falaise and the actrice Catherine Deneuve.
In 1993 YSL was sold for about 600 million dollars to the company Sanofi. 6 years later YSL was sold to Gucci. Tom Ford was creative director of the ready-to-wear-collection, while Yves the haute couture line designed. In 2002 YSL was, because of Yves ages, drug problems, depression, alcoholism, critics on the designes of YSL and the problems with Tom Ford, closed. After this Yves moved back to his house in Marrakesh, Morocco.
He died at the age of 71 and was buried in Marrakesh. Right now Anthony Vaccarello is creative director of YSL.
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Vera Wang
Vera Ellen Wang was born in New York at June 27th in 1949. She is an American fashion designer and former figure skater.
In 1968 Vera Wang took the American championship of figure skating. After a failed try to participate the Olympics, she started in the fashion industry. Vera Wang worked 15 years for the fashion magazine ‘Vogue’. In 1985 she started at Ralph Lauren. In 1990 she opened her own office in New York. She focused mainly on wedding dresses.
She designed fo well-known persons like Chelsea Clinton, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Victoria Beckham, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Lopez, Sharon Stone, Hilary Duff, Uma Thurman and Kim Kardashian. She won multipal prestigious fashion awards for her work.
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Burberry
Thomas Burberry (1835 - 1926) was a British fashion designer. He was the founder of the British fashion house Burberry, worldly well-known from the famous camel colored with black, white and red striped pattern. He found, in the end of 19th century, the watertight fabric out named ‘gabardine’. This weather resisted fabric was perfect for the British wet weather. In 1888 he got patent on this fabric.
Burberry is a fashion brand from the UK and it designes fashion and accessoires. They also have their of perfumes and has stores al around the world. Right now Christoper Bailey is creative director of Burberry. Both Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles have now given their royal permission.
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Chloé
Chloé is a French luxury fashion house founded in 1952 by Gaby Aghion. In 1953 they joined forces with Jacques Lenior. The headquarters are located in Paris, France. The house is owned by luxury brands holding company Richemont Group.
Gaby Aghion was born in 1921 in Alexandria, Egypt. After moving to Paris, France in 1945, she founded Chloé in 1952 with a vision of offering luxury prêt-à-porter, which was a new concept at that time. Gaby Aghion continued to run the house until 1985, when Chloé was bought by Alfred Dunhill Ltd.
Right now, Clare Waight Keller is creative director of Chloé.
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Ted Baker
Founder Ray Kelvin started his first store in March 1988 in Glasgow, and opened further stores in Manchester, and Nottingham. In 1990 Ted Baker opened a store in Covent Garden (with additional stores in London's Soho, Nottingham and Leeds) and Kelvin bought the company outright from part-owners Goldberg and Sons. A new range, Ted Baker Woman, was launched in 1995.
Ted Baker has expanded its high street presence through its wholesale business which includes Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Norway, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, as well as the British Isles. Wholesale operations commenced in 1994 through careful selection of retail stores.
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Azzedine Alaïa
Azzedine Alaïa was a French designer from Tunesia. He was born in Jemmal (1940) and he died in Paris on 18 November 2017.
Alaïa came to Paris. He worked for Christian Dior, Guy Laroche en Thierry Mugler before he started his own label. His clothes were worn bij fashion icons like: Grace Jones, Tina Turner, Raquel Welch, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Brigitte Nielsen, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymout, Shakira, Miley Cyrus, Victoria Beckham, Carla Bruni and Michelle Obama.
Ted Baker has expanded its high street presence through its wholesale business which includes Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Norway, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, as well as the British Isles. Wholesale operations commenced in 1994 through careful selection of retail stores.
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Celine
Céline is a French brand that has been owned by LVMH group since 1996. It was founded in 1945 by Céline Vipiana. Since November 2015, the headquarters are located at 16 rue Vivienne in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris at the Hôtel Colbert de Torcy, which has French Historic Monument classification. Séverine Merle is the Chief Executive Officer since April 2017.
On January 21, 2018, LVMH announced that Hedi Slimane will take over at Celine as its artistic, creative and image director.
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Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce & Gabbana is the clothing line from two Italian designers, Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana.
Dolce & Gabbana is based in Milan. Next to clothes, they also make books and they have a restaurant called Gold. The brand had two lines: D&G, the affordable version, and Dolce & Gabbana, the expensive version. In februari 2005 the couple decided to split up.
A Italian court gave the brand in June 2013 a jail time of 20 months because of tax evasion. In April the same year the couple got a fine of 343 million euros because of the same reason.
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Dries van Noten
Van Noten was born in a family of tailors in Antwerpen. He studied fashion on the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerpen, where he met Christine Mathys, she became cofounder of the fashion brand Dries van Noten. In 1985 they published a male collection. From 1987 Van Noten also created female clothing; in 1989 he opened his own store in Antwerpen. Since 1991 he has a fashion show in Paris. 1993 he opened another 2 stores in Paris and Milan, in 1997 followed Tokio and Hongkong.
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Elie Saab
Elie Saab (born 4 July 1964) is a Lebanese fashion designer. His main workshop is in Lebanon, with additional workshops in Milan and Paris. Het started his business in the early 1980s and specialised in bridal couture. He is the first Arab to be admitted to the fashion industry. Saab appeared as a judge on Project Runway: Middle East in 2016. As March 2017, his couture collections are available in Paris, London, and Beirut, while his couture clothes were in 160 retailers and his own boutiques. Kate Middleton wore a Saab gown to Royal Ascot in 2019, marking the first occasion where Saab has dressed a British Royal.
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Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani (born 11 July 1934) is an Italian fashion designer. He first came to notice, working for Cerruti and then for many others, including Allegri, Bagutta and Hilton. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, which eventually diversified into music, sport and luxury hotels. By 2001 Armani was acclaimed as the most successful designer of Italian origin, and is credited with pioneering red-carpet fashion.
Armani was born in the northern Italian town of Piacenza, where he was raised with his older brother Sergio and younger sister Rosanna by his mother Maria Raimondi and father Ugo Armani (an accountant for a transport company). Armani is of Italian-Armenian descent. While at secondary school at the Liceo Scientifico Respighi in Piacenza, Armani aspired to a career in medicine, particularly after reading A. J. Cronin's The Citadel. He enrolled in the Department of Medicine at the University of Milan, but after three years, in 1953, he left and joined the army. Due to his medical background, he was assigned to the Military Hospital in Verona, where he would attend shows at the Arena. He eventually decided to look for a different career path.
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Gucci
Gucci is an Italian fashion house. It is founded in 1921 by Guccio Gucci (1881-1953) in Florence. Since 2004 is it in hands of Kering. The head designer is Alessandro Michele.
It has often been prey for the French group Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, but Gucci has been able to escape this several times. For example, the Gucci Group became a publicly traded company in 1995, listed on Euronext Amsterdam (primarily) and on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1996, the company issued even more shares, to prevent it from becoming cheap prey for acquisition candidates. Finally, in 2004, the group was taken over by Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR) through a friendly offer, and since late 2004 Gucci is no longer a publicly traded company, but a full part of PPR, later renamed Kering.
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Iris van Herpen
Van Herpen studied fashiondesigner at ArtEZ in Arnhem. During her study she interned at Alexander Mcqueen in London and Claudy Jongstra in Amsterdam. After she finished she designed shoes for United Nude. In 2007 she started her own label. Her work is very tailored and innovative.
Van Herpen showed her own collections during Amsterdam International Fashion Week (2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010), the London Fashion week (2009 and 2010) and the Paris Haute Couture-week (2011, 2012 and 2013) With her designs she won multipal awards, for example two dutch Design Awards, a Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Award in 2010. In 2011 was her 3D-dress proclaimed by TIME Magazine for best inventions of the year. In the same year, Van Herpen joined the prestigious Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture.
On April 1, 2015, she was appointed a member of the Academy of Arts. The Johannes Vermeer Prize was awarded to her in 2017.
In 2018 she was nominated as Artist of the Year.
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Isabel Marant
Isabel Marant (12 April 1967) is a French fashion designer, owner of Isabel Marant. She won the Award de la Mode (1997), the Whirlpool Award for best female designer (1998), Fashion Designer of the Year by Birtish Glamour’s Women of the Year Award (2012). She became ‘Everyday Designer of the Year Elle Style Awards’ in 2014. Het collaboration with H&M in 2013 was so successful that the website of the company crashed and the collection was sold out in 45 minutes. Celebrities like Alexa Chung, Katie Holmes, Victoria Beckham, Kate Moss, Sienna Miller, Kate Bosworth and Rachel Weisz wore the designs from Isabel Marant.
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Kate Spade
Katherine Noel Valentine Brosnahan Spade (December 24, 162 - Juni 5, 2018), was an American Fashion designer an entrepreneur. She was the founder and former co-owner of the designer brand Kate Spade New York.
Spade was born Katherine Noel Brosnahan in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of June (Mullen) and Francis (Frank) Brosnahan, who owned a road-construction company. She was of mostly Irish descent. After graduating from St. Teresa's Academy, an all-female Catholic high school, Spade attended the University of Kansas. She later transferred to Arizona State University. She joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and graduated with a journalism degree in 1985, thinking she would go into television production. While in college, she worked in sales at Carter's Men Shop, a men's clothing store in Phoenix. It was there where she met co-worker Andy Spade, who later became her husband and business partner.
In 1996, the CFDA awarded Spade "America's New Fashion Talent in Accessories" for her classic designs. In 1998, the organization again honored her for "Best Accessory Designer of the Year”.
Her home collection won her three design awards in 2004, including, House Beautiful's "Giants of Design Award for Tastemaker", Bon Appétit's "American Food and Entertaining Award for Designer of the Year", and Elle Decor's "Elle Decor International Design Award for Bedding".
In 2017, she was inducted into the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
Also in 2017, she was named one of the Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company.
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Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs (9 April 1963) is an American designer raised in New York.
He studied at the High school of Art and Design in New York in 1981 and at Parsons School of Design. In 1984 started he with Robert Duffy with the name Jacobs Duffy Inc. He became well-known in the fashion world in 1988 when he worked for Perry Ellis and in 1993 a grunge collection for the brand. In 1986 het made his first own collection for Marc Jacobs. Later he also made the line Marc by Marc Jacobs. He is creative director of Louis Vuitton since 1997, where he made his first prêt-à-porter line. Sofia Coppola is his muse: a stylish dreamy lady, with a timeless yet girly look.
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