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Date:
12-09-2003
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Anna Wintour
Her trademark hairstyle and perma-sunglasses make Anna Wintour unforgettable - regardless of any Hollywood interpretation in The Devil Wears Prada. With a genuine passion for fostering young talent from Christopher Kane to Jonathan Saunders or Kate Bosworth, Anna Wintour grooms...
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24-11-2002
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2238
Bill Blass
In 1940, when Bill Blass left Indiana for New York's Seventh Avenue, fashion designers were hidden behind the closed doors of the manufacturers' studios where they produced designs for suits and dresses that would never carry their own names. But Blass stood apart from the crowd:...
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Date:
13-11-2002
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4427
Chanel
Chanel | Although she was born at the end of the nineteenth century, Chanel was to become one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. She was not influenced by previous fashion, but had entirely new ideas on how to make a woman look feminine. Dispensing with...
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Date:
13-11-2002
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Chanel
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was one of the most influential women in fashion of this century. She grew up practically an orphan and became famous, rich, and an extraordinary designer. Her success was an accomplishment due to hard work and a striving need for fame. In the process, she...
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Date:
13-11-2002
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4279
Christian Dior
Christian Dior | At the end of the Second World War there was a mood of anticipation, particularly amongst the women, many of whom had been assigned to men's jobs, which entailed them wearing unflattering protective clothing. They were tired of rationing and making something out...
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Date:
03-12-2001
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3770
Cristobal Balenciaga
Fundacion Cristobal Balenciaga | Cristobal Balenciaga was born in a fishing village in Basque Spain in 1895. He founded his haute couture line in 1919 and Balenciaga created a desirable line that lasted until 1968. After Balenciaga's death in 1972, this fashion house continued...
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Date:
06-08-2001
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6999
Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian who began her career as a designer in 1930s Paris. While Coco Chanel and Madeline Vionnet designed easy, soft clothes, Elsa Schiaparelli designed unusual, almost shocking garments.
She invented shocking pink and introduced mad prints, buttons and...
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Date:
17-06-2003
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2374
Infomat Designer biographies
Infomat Designer biographies / View the largest source of designer biographies, fashion collections, runway collections, rtw collections, designer collections, designers.
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Date:
13-02-2005
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2855
Jean Muir
Jean Muir was born in London in 1928. By the time she was 6 years old, she could knit, sew and embroider. As a teenager, she made all her own clothes. Her first jobs were at Liberty, selling clothes and then she worked for Jaeger from 1956 to 1961. She married Harry Lackert.
In...
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Date:
25-06-2002
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2932
Jeanne Lanvin
Jeanne Lanvin | Founded in 1889 at 22, Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré by Jeanne Lanvin (Paris 1867 - 1946), Lanvin is the oldest Parisian fashion house. From Haute couture (1909) to men's fashion (1926), decoration (1920), and perfumes ("My Sin" in 1925, "Arpège" 1927), the young...
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