Son of a Czech father and Spanish mother, Manolo Blahnik was born on 28th November 1942 in Santa Cruz de la Palma and grew up in the Canary Islands. Manolo frequently travelled to Madrid and Paris with his parents and at these spectacular locations, his mother ordered clothes for herself from her favorite designers, including […]
A survivor and witness of the devastating Hiroshima bombing in 1945 and a technology-driven fashion designer from Japan, Issey Miyake was born on 22nd April 1938. He is recognized worldwide for his contemporary, industrial and innovative apparel designs, fragrances and exhibitions. His work cuts the edge of science and fashion, combining the two into a […]
Born on December 12, 1959, Jasper Alexander Thirlby Conran is the son of Sir Terence Conran and Shirley Conran, designer and author, respectively. After two years of his birth, his parents led to some relationship problems and were divorced. Conran completed his primary and secondary education from Port Regis School and Bryanston School during the […]
Matthew Williamson is a high-spirited and humorous chap who chose to be a fashion designer. He was born in Manchester in 1971 and studied at Loreto College till the age of seventeen. He then relocated to London in order to attend Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design and graduated from there in 1994. […]
Henry Holland is Britain’s most daring designers who rose to fame with his Fashion Groupies t-shirt collection of 2006 with bold, rhyming phrases like ‘I’ll tell you who’s boss, Kate Moss’ and ‘Cause me pain, Hedi Slimane.’ On the runway, the collection was presented by various designers wearing t-shirts with each other’s phrases. What sets […]
The human figures walk during the fashion shows with their face hidden most of the time in bizarre yet contemporary outfits by a fashion designer from Belgium – Martin Margiela, who was born in 1957 in Genk. In 1979, he attained his graduation degree from Royal Academy of Fine Arts. After graduating, he began working […]
Alannah Hill was born in 1963 in a small town Geeveston located in Tasmania, Australia. She is a fashion designer known not only in her country but internationally too. Alannah spent most of her childhood years in Penguin’s coastal areas along with her four siblings. Her mother worked at the milk bar that the family […]
Karen Walker, based in New Zealand, is a fashion designer who left school after studying at Epsom Girls Grammar School, in order to commence his fashion education in 1988. After two years, she graduated and in 1995 launched two boutiques with only hundred bucks. Three years later she started selling her designs to Barney’s New […]
The multi-talented Danish fashion designer, Henrik Vibskov was born in 1972 in Gjellerup, Jutland. Vibskov went off to London in 2001 to study at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in order to pursue a career in fashion design. After he was done with graduation, he came back to Denmark and started […]
Uber stylist, fashion editor and fashion director Nicola Formichetti was born in Japan on May 31 1977 to an Italian pilot and Japanese air hostess. He spent most of his childhood in Tokyo and Rome. He is known in the fashion industry for working as the new artistic director for the Italian fashion label, DIESEL […]
A corner of Antwerp belongs to a man, whose boutique Het Modepaleis with its 1881 original sign with gold serif typeface affectionately restored, sit on Nationalestraat’s corner. The distinct five-storey triangular building has enough grandeur for a petite department store. Dries Van Noten bought this shop in 1989, three years after he had launch his […]
Known for her acting in Nickelodeon programs, The Amanda Show, and All That. Amanda Bynes was born on 3rd April 1986 and became eminent between late 1990s and early 2000s. She is not only a television actress but has acted in movies popular amongst young people, such as What Girl Wants in 2003; She’s the Man […]
Erin Fetherston is an American fashion designer, born in San Francisco, California. She attended the University of California, Berkeley before studying at Parson’s School of Design, Paris. It was in 2005 that she debuted her eponymous label and introduced it during the Haute Couture Show in Paris. Since its birth, the collection has established a […]
Born in South Africa (1965), Collette Dinnigan is a fashion designer who had moved to New Zealand, graduating in fashion course from Wellington Polytechnic, before moving to Sydney and working in the department of costumes at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was in 1992 that she became capable of opening her first ever store on William […]
