Category: Past

Rachel Scott

Rachel Scott

Fashion Designer of the Month for November 2025 Mouse-pointer Linkedin-in Bio Gallery Bio Rachel Scott is a Jamaican fashion designer. Scott developed an interest in fashion during her childhood in Kingston, Jamaica. Scott learned to design and sew her own clothes and studied the deep intricacies clothing had within her culture. Eventually, Scott began to […]

Valentino

Valentino

Fashion Designer of the Month for October 2025 Instagram Bio Gallery Bio Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani is a world renown Italian fashion designer. Born in the Italian province of Voghera, Valentino grew an interest in fashion while aprenticing under his fashion designer aunt Ernestina Salvadeo during primary school. Valentino continued to pursue fashion with the […]

Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani

Fashion Designer of the Month for September 2025 Instagram Bio Gallery Bio Giorgio Armani is an influential Italian fashion designer and billionaire. Born in Piacenza, Italy, Armani began working in fashion following his two years serving in the miliary. First at the La Rinascente department store in Milan as a window dresser and clerk, then […]

Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen

Fashion Designer of the Month for August 2025 Bio Gallery Bio Lee Alexander McQueen aka Alexander McQueen was a British fashion designer and couturier. Born in London, England had an interest in fashion at a young age and would experiment by designing dresses for his sisters. McQueen began his career after studying tailoring at Newham […]

Donatella Virsace

Donatella Virsace

Fashion Designer of the Month for July 2025 Instagram Bio Gallery Bio Donatella Francesca Versace is an influential Italian fashion designer and businesswoman. Born in Reggio di Calabria, Italy, Donatella had developed an interest in fashion at a young age. She got her start working with her brother Gianni at the Callaghan fashion label in […]

Louise Trotter

Louise Trotter

Fashion Designer of the Month for June 2025 Instagram Bio Gallery Bio Louise Trotter is a well-known British fashion designer. Born in Sunderland, England, Trotter began her career working at the British contemporary fashion brand Whistles, Following being promoted to Creative Director, Trotter then relocated to New-York and began working at high ranking positions at […]

Demna Gvasalia

Fashion Designer of the Month for May 2025 Instagram Bio Gallery Bio Demna Gvasalia is a well-known Georgian fashion designer. Born in Sokhumi during the war in Abkhazia, Demna and his family escaped to the capital for safety but continued to move throughout Demna’s childhood from Ukraine and even Russia. Demna began developing an interest […]

Christian Dior

Christian Dior

Fashion Designer of the Month for April 2025 Bio Gallery Bio Christian Ernest Dior was an influential French fashion designer. Born on the coast of Normandy, France, Christian grew up in Paris, where he developed an interest in art, contradicting his family’s expectations of him becoming a diplomat. Christian developed his skills in art byselling his own works, […]

Carolina Herrera

Carolina Herrera

Fashion Designer of the Month for March 2025 Instagram Mouse-pointer Bio Gallery Bio Carolina Herrera is a Venezuelan American fashion designer. Born in  Caracas, Venezuela, Herrera was introduced to the fashion world by her grandmother who took her to Balenciaga fashion shows. Eventually Herrera committed to a career in fashion and began working as a […]

Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren

Fashion Designer of the Month for February 2025 Facebook X-twitter Instagram Bio Gallery Bio Ralph Lauren is an influential American fashion designer. Born in Bronx, New York City, Lauren was exposed to the art world at a young age thanks to his parents being artists themselves. Following his graduation from DeWitt Clinton High School, Lauren […]

Zac Posen

Zac Posen

Fashion Designer of the Month for January 2025 Mouse-pointer X-twitter Instagram Bio Gallery Bio Zac Posen is an American fashion designer. Born in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, Posen grew up in a large Jewish family, where he grew an interest in fashion through the traditional Jewish headwear Kippah. Posen cultivated his art skills throughout middle school and high […]

Donna Karan

Donna Karan

Fashion Designer of the Month for December 2024 Instagram Bio Gallery Bio Donna Karan is an American fashion designer. Born in Queens, New York City, Karan was introduced to the fashion industry at a young age thanks to her mother’s work as a model. Karan cultivated her artistic eye throughout her childhood and zeroed in […]

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