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Anna Wintour
Anna Wintour - Vogue - Born in Britain, she started her career in 1970, working in the fashion department at Harpers & Queen in London. Six years later, she moved to New York to join sister publication Harper's Bazaar as its Fashion Editor. After a stint as Senior Editor at New...
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Azzedine Alaïa
Azzedine Alaïa learned about the human form when he was studying sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Tunis. It was not until 1957 when he moved to Paris that he formalized his fashion career when he became an assistant to Guy Laroche. Starting 1960, he was designing and...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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