1. Alexander McQueen worked on his tailoring skills at the amazing fashionable names like Anderson & Shepherd, Barmans & Nathans and Romeo Gigli before launching his own brand in 1992. Mc Queen was known for his iconic fashion and extravagant design. McQueen took his own life, shocking the fashion world and everyone how ever met him, in 2010. .....
3. Calvin Klein studied fashion in New York and apprenticed for a suit manufacturer. In 1968, he opened his own company that was initially recognized for suits and coats, but his sportswear line became popular and top of the line. He received three Coty Awards for womenswear. His business now includes clothing, cosmetics, fragrances and home collections. .....
4. This is one our favorite quotes by Carolina Herrera and we think she is a true inspiration to women in fashion, and more, around the world. Carolina started to be known by regularly appearing on the International Best Dressed List in the 80s. Her trend marks are classy pieces like pencil skirts paired with crisp white cotton shirts. In 2008 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. .....
5. When Christian Dior launched his New Look collection in 1947 he radically changed the direction of midcentury fashion, bringing the world a new idea of luxury from postwar Paris. Bustier bodices, bellshaped skirts, rounded shoulders and cinched waists made Diors work different and irreverent. Dior took the world by storm, never producing an unpopular collection during his administration as the head of Dior brand. .....
6. Christian Louboutin was born in France in 1963. He was expelled from school at age 16 and started working for the brilliant shoe designer Charles Jourdan two years later. In the early 1990s, Louboutin launched his own line of womens shoes. He added his legendary red soles in 1993. The Louboutin brand is one of our favorites and his wonderful and unique shoes are all we want. .....
7. Christian Lacroix directs his devotion and talent for fantasy and theatrics to create true design spectacles. Lacroix arrived in the 80s with the opening of his fashion house and immediately set the world on fire with unexpected mixes of colors and patterns. The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea. This is one of the best quotes of Lacroix, fighting for unique and irreverent pieces in the world of fashion. .....
8. No quote could be more appropriate from the woman who gave us the little black dress. Born August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France, Coco Chanel is famous for her timeless designs, trademark suits, and little black dresses. Chanel had a brief career as a singer before opening her first clothes shop in 1910. In the 1920s, she launched her first perfume and introduced the Chanel suit and the little black dress. .....
9. The spanish fashion designer Cristobal Balenciaga was born on January 21 in 1895. After studying dressmarking as a child, by age 20, Cristobal started his own brand and became Spanishs leading couturier. In 1937, he moved to Paris due to the Spanish Civil War. Balenciagas designs are famous by its capes, flowing clothes without waistlines, as well as the use of plastic for rainwear. Cristobal died in 1972 in Valencia, Spain. .....
11. Coco Chanel was wrong when she said that men were unable to design for women. Women know too much about women and they transpose their needs onto womens clothes The idea of women power and women shapes is as good to Dolce and Gabbana as it is for us. In 1985, their first collection was shown in Milan and built their themes on screen sirens, Sicilian widows and a rosary of Catholic kitsch. Dolce and Gabbana are arguably the most powerful and influ .....
12. Donatella started to work for her brother Gianni in the late 1970s, serving as his muse and adviser. Then she became the designer for the companys Versus line in the 1980s. After her brother was murdered, in 1997, she became creative director of the Versace Group. Donatella made sure that Versace shops would be on different fashion centers around the world, particularly Milan and New York. Top celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Madonna have endo .....
13. The 66 years old diva, Donna Karan is one of the most influential fashion designers in the world. Her line of cloths was created for women to where when they are going to a cocktail party straight from work. Sleek and practical basics are mixed with glamorous and feminine pieces. To sum up, Donna Karan has left a lasting impact on the world of clothing, bringing uptown New York chic into the mainstream. .....
14. The top icon of fashion design, Elsa Schiaparelli was born on September 10, 1890, in Italy. After working at a boutique in New York, Schiaparelli moved to Paris, where she began designing her own clothes. Her work and sense of style shaped the look of fashion in the 1920s and 30s, and her clothes were worn by some of the worlds most famous women, including American actress Greta Garbo. Schiaparelli died in Paris on November 13, 1973. .....
15. Known as the prince of Prints, the fashion designer Emilio Pucci got known for his tight shantung Pucci pants and vividly printed silk dresses and blouses. His colorful, informal uniforms for Braniff flight attendants were groundbreaking. Later, Pucci branched into mens fashions, perfume, and ceramics. He also served as a member of the Italian Parliament. His color trends and designs are one of KOKETs most lovable inspirations. .....
16. Gianni Versace launched his first clothing line in Milan, Italy, in 1978. In 1989, Versace debuted his first couture collection. He became known for his glamorous styles, producing a range of siren dresses that became his trademark. Gianni Versace was also known for his marketing genius, turning nameless models into international superstars and regularly recruiting celebrities for his campaigns. Gianni Versace was murdered in 1997. Nevertheless, .....
17. Giorgio Armani was born on July 11, in 1934, in Italy. Armani is an iconic and unique fashion designer. His popularity skyrocketed in America in the 1980s with his mens .....
18. Hubert de Givenchy was born to an aristocratic family in Beauvais, France, in the 20s. After attending art school, he worked for several important fashion designers in Paris. He opened his own design house in 1952 and was immediately praised for his chic, feminine designs. He is known for his elegant haute couture designs and professional relationships with clients like Audrey Hepburn. .....
19. Fashion designer Issey Miyake used new technology to create innovative textiles with both Eastern and Western influences for his clothing line. Issey Miyake was born on April 22, 1938, in Hiroshima, Japan. In the 1960s, he designed for Givenchy in Paris, after which he designed for Geoffrey Bean in Manhattan. In 1970, Miyake started his own design studio. During the 1970s, he toyed with avantgarde Eastern designs. In the 1980s, he began using tec .....
20. JeanPaul Gaultier is a French fashion designer born on 1952 in ValdeMarne, France. At age 18, he joined the house of Pierre Cardin before moving on to Jacques Esterel and Patou. The appearance of Gaultiers collection was in 1976, but his own design house was only launched on 1982. Jean Paul Gaultiers sensual, irreverent style continually challenges stereotypical femininity, ignoring traditional gender roles by embracing androgyny and the freedom .....
21. Leanne Lanvin was born in Brittany, France, in 1867. Leanne was known for her modern and youthful looking clothing that gave women freedom of movement. She was specifically recognized for her robe de style, the chemise and Empire dresses, and the Breton suit. She also ventured into designing sportswear and accessories. .....
22. Fashion designer Jimmy Choo was born in Penang, Malaysia in 1961. He used the craftsmanship he learned from his father, also a cobbler, to create some of the most coveted shoes in the world. Choo opened his first shop in Hackney in 1986 in an old hospital building. Within two years of opening his shop, Choos shoes were featured in an eightpage spread in Vogue magazine. Soon, Choo became the darling of the celebrity world, in particular Princess D .....
23. One of the most acclaimed fashion designers in the world, Karl Lagerfeld was born in Hamburg, Germany. As a teenager, Lagerfeld worked at Balmain for four years before moving to Jean Patou where he became artistic director at 21. His prolific portfolio now encompasses Chanel and Fendi along with his own house. Known for his bold designs and constant reinvention, hes been hailed Vogue magazine as the unparalleled interpreter of the mood of the mom .....
24. Being way more than a famous shoe designer, Manolo Blahnik is the man who can singlehandedly make a woman feel instantly sexy with his ultra sophisticated, wildly fun high heel shoes. Becoming a household name through shows like Sex and the City and his never ending list of celebrity endorsements, Manolo Blahnik has become one of the most influential shoe designers of our time. Unfortunately it is known in fashion circles that when Blahnik dies t .....
25. Being a New Yorker born on April 9, 1963, Marc Jacobs suffered a lot with the dead of his father at the age of 7. He would eventually move in with his grandmother and that made all the difference. Marc entered the Parsons School of Design and later position at Perry Ellis. Jacobs launched his own collection in 1986, started his own label and continued to impress the fashion world. .....
26. London designer Mary Quant was not only an iconic fashion design but also the imortal creator of the miniskirt. Mary had an artschool background and had been designing and manufacturing her own clothes since second half of the twentieth century. She was convinced that fashion needed to be affordable to be accessible to the young, she opened her own retail boutique, Bazaar, on the Kings Road in 1955, introducing the mod era and the Chelsea look. .....
27. One of our favorite italian fashion designers, Miuccia Prada was once a member of the Italian Communist Party and a mime student. She was an unlikely entrepreneur when she took over her familys luggage business in 1978. She first dazzled the fashion world in 1985 with a series of black nylon handbags and backpacks. Prada is now a billiondollar company. Beginning with Pradas first readytowear collection in 1989, she established a techno minimalism .....
28. In 1995, Rodriguez became design director of TSE, where he presented the first readytowear collections for men and women. In 1996, Carolyn Bessette asked Rodriguez to create the gown she wore to marry John F. Kennedy Jr, putting the designer firmly on the fashion radar. Rodriguez was soon appointed design director of Cerruti in Paris. After that a consequence, Loewe appointed Rodriguez as design director of the womens ready to wear collection. Ro .....
29. Coming from a mid class family from Dominican Republic, Oscar de La Renta moved to Madrid at the early age of 19 wishing to be a painter. In order to make extra money he started doing some work as a fashion designer. In 1965, De la Renta took over Arden, the company he was working for at the time and this open the door to start his own brand. The unique tone of red on his dresses became to be known as De la Renta red. .....
30. Ottavio Missoni started their own fashion design company with his wife Rosita. First they started with stripes, the easiest design which could be made with the ch. They use up to twenty different fabrics, including wool, cotton, linen, rayon and silk and some 40 different colours for each of their collections. Their clothes range from sweaters to skirts, dresses and jackets. Ottavio Missoni has also diversified from clothes to tapestries and carp .....
31. In 1966 Paco Rabanne opened his own outlet at the age of 32, where he earned international repute for his metallinked plasticdisc dresses, sun goggles and jewelry made of plastic in primary colors. Paco Rabannes dresses made of small plastic tiles linked together by chains, stole the show in Paris. His first collection, titled 12 Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials, sums up his philosophy that the only new frontier left in fashion is the .....
32. Considered by many one of the greatest tailors of the century, Pierre Balmain was born in Saint Jean de Maurienne, France in 1914. After studying at the school of Architecture, in Paris he founded in 1945 the Maison Balmain as a couture house, with a lucrative sideline in fragrances. In that year he showed long, bellshaped skirts with small waists; a line that became popular in 1947 as part of Diors New Look. .....
33. After working for Dior, Schiaparelli and Paquin, Pierre Cardin opened his fashion house in 1947. Initially designing costumes for stage productions, he launched his first womens couture collection in 1953 and womens readytowear in 1959. Cardins company grew into an empire starting in the 1960s when he began licensing his name to a wide array of products outside of clothing. .....
34. Son of Russian working class immigrants, Ralph Lauren has transformed himself into the sophisticated billionaire. His classic and preppy designs all draw upon an image of old world wealth and luxury, and he pioneered the concept of clothes as part of a lifestyle environment. Lauren worked in retail before developing a line of neckties. The brand he established, Polo, is now one part of an empire that includes fragrances, home furnishings and luxu .....
35. Ralph Rucci was born in 1957 in Philadelphia. He studied Philosophy and Literature at Temple University. Ralph Rucci launched the Chado Ralph Rucci line in 1994. His attention to detail, extreme perfectionism, and the dutiful mastery of his art has won numerous awards and placement in permanent museum collections. .....
36. Rei Kawakubo went to university and studied art and literature, like a lot of bright girls do. But then she taught herself how to design, set up shop, and soon started to change the fashion world. In 1973, she created her own company, Comme des Gar .....
37. A former world number one tennis player, Rene Lacoste won 10 major titles over the course of his sevenyear career. In later years, he started a line of sportswear that bore his name and whose iconic crocodile symbol became a sign of status. He died in St. JeanLuz, France, on October 12, 1996. .....
38. Here at KOKET we are as in love with women as Cavalli. This italian designer Roberto Cavalli presented his first collection in 1970 and came to be known for his lavishly printed and colored leatherwear and denim. In 1999, he introduced menswear and eyewear and followed with Cavalli Jeans (later renamed to Just Cavalli) in 2000. .....
39. Salvatore Ferragamo was a 20th century Italian footwear designer, providing Hollywoods glitterati and many others with unique handmade 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. .....
40. Sonia Rykiel is a fashion designer who was born in Neuilly, Paris on 1930. She created her debut maternity outfits and Poor Boy Sweater, that was shown on the cover of ELLE magazine. Due to this, Sonia was crowned as the .....
42. Thierry Mugler was born in Strasbourg, France. At the age of 20, Manfred Thierry Mugler is in search of a more creative outlet and decides to try his luck in Paris in the dance world. In 1973 he debuted his first collection, Cafe de Paris, and founded his own label for women two years later, and in 1978 he launched a collection for men. .....
43. Thomas Burberry was born in 1835 in Brockham Green, Surrey. Burberry opened his own small clothing outfitters in Basingstoke in 1857. At that time Basingstoke was a small country town. Nowadays, the Burberry Group is a leading global fashion brand which now sells womenswear, menswear, nonapparel and childrens wear. It is famous for its iconic trademarked check design and British heritage branding. .....
44. Tom Ford studied design at the before he worked for Perry Ellis andCathy Hardwick. Tom was hired in 1990 to oversee Guccis womens wear collections, and had a breakthrough four years later when he was appointed creative director. The Gucci makeover masterminded by Ford was the biggest fashion success story of the late 90s. His sultry rockstar velvet hipslung trousers, leather stilettos, and Halstonesque dresses were blockbusters. After Guccis buyo .....
45. Known as the champion of starspangled glamour, Tommy Hilfiegers favorite trends go from red, white and blue. Since introducing his first collection in 1985, no designer has become more closely associated with Ivy League prep than Tommy Hilfiger. After building his company on the modernization of allAmerican mens wear, and winning the CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year award in 1995, Hilfiger introduced womens wear in 1996 and sold the company for .....
46. Valentino started his brilliant and admirable carrear in the world of fashion on 1950 when he moved to Paris to study desing. His classically elegant and feminine designs made women look utterly glamorous. The Italian maestro worked at houses Dessus and Laroche before going back to Rome to set up his business in 1959. By the mid1960s, Valentino was a favorite designer of the worlds bestdressed women, including Jacqueline Kennedy. Among his signat .....
47. Known for balancing modern designs with traditional elegance, Vera Wang is arguably the most prominent designer of bridal wear in America. Wang introduced her first bridal collection in 1990 after fifteen years editing at Vogue and a two designing for Ralph Lauren. After spending more than a decade dressing countless stars for weddings and red carpets in her ultraelegant, custommade gowns (even publishing a book in 2001, Vera Wang on Weddings), i .....
48. Vivienne Westwood, the godmother of punk, is considered one of the most unconventional and outspoken fashion designers in the world. Westwoods fashions woke to fame in the late 1970s when her early designs helped shape the look of the punk rock movement. The highly influential shop changed its name and d .....
49. Yamamoto was born in Yokohama, Japan on October 3, 1943. He studied law at Keio University and graduated in 1966 with a law degree. He continued his studies on fashion design at the famous Bunkafukuso Gakuin, a fashion institute in Tokyo. Yamamoto blends the exotic and powerful designs of traditional Japanese dress with Western daywear, and achieves a unique, abstract style. He is an uncompromising, nontraditional designer. Yamamoto drapes and .....
50. Yves Saint Laurent started his brand in 1962 after working at the house of Dior, where he was famously appointed head designer at young age 21. Many of fashions most iconic creations can be attributed to YSL, including the womens tuxedo jacket, the highfashion peacoat, and the shirt dress. In addition to iconic clothing, he was also among the first designers to feature nonwhite models. Yves stayed at the brand until his retirement in 2002. He die .....
