Category: Past

Anna Sui

Anna Sui

Fashion Designer of the Month for November 2024 Instagram Bio Gallery Bio Anna Sui is a Chinese American fashion designer. Born in 1955 to a second-generation Asian-American family, Sui learned the ins and outs of fashion and fabrics from a young age, learning how to sew clothes on her dolls thanks to her mother. After graduating […]

Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel

Fashion Designer of the Month for October 2024 Mouse-pointer Bio Gallery Bio Coco Chanel was a was a French fashion designer well known for founding the Chanel brand. After learning the sew at an early age, Chanel went through many jobs in her early life like as a seamstress and even a brief stint as […]

Kate Spade

Kate Spade

Fashion Designer of the Month for September 2024 Mouse-pointer Bio Gallery Bio Katherine Noel Brosnahan Spade aka Kate Spade was an influential American fashion designer and business woman. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, began her journey within the fashion world working sales at a men’s clothing shop in Phoenix during college. After college Spade moved to […]

Oscar de la Renta

Oscar de la Renta

Fashion Designer of the Month for August 2024 Facebook X-twitter Instagram Youtube Mouse-pointer Bio Gallery Bio Oscar de la Renta, real name Óscar Arístides Renta Fiallo, was born on July 22, 1932, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Having received an international fashion education, he left the Dominican Republic at age 18 to study painting at the […]

Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion Designer of the Month for July 2024 Instagram Mouse-pointer Bio Gallery Bio Karl Lagerfeld was an influential and highly controversial German fashion designer. Born in the 1930s to a family of wealthy businessmen in Hamburg Germany, Lagerfeld developed an interest in the arts at an early age, mainly drawing.  Lagerfeld got his start in the […]

Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh

Fashion Designer of the Month for June 2024 Instagram X-twitter Bio Gallery Bio Virgil Abloh was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur famous for his luxury streetwear clothing brand Off Line. Born in Rockford Illinois, Abloh got his start in the industry interning at Fendi in 2009. Abloh collaborated with Kanye West , who was in […]

Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren

Fashion Designer of the Month for April 2024 Facebook Instagram Bio Gallery Bio Ralph Lauren was born in Bronx, New York in 1939 to Jewish immigrant parents. After graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1957 he began studying at Baruch College of the City University of New York, but dropped out after just two […]

Carolina Herrera

Carolina Herrera

Fashion Designer of the Month for August 2020 Facebook Twitter Instagram Mouse-pointer Bio Gallery Bio Carolina Herrera is a Venezuelan-American fashion designer and icon known for her gorgeous clothing designs and fragrances worldwide. Herrera was born María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño in Venezuela on January 8, 1939. Herrera learned English and French growing up and was shockingly not that into fashion. At the age […]

Kathleen Hanhee Kye

Kathleen Hanhee Kye

Fashion Designer of the Month for February 2024 Facebook Instagram Youtube Mouse-pointer Bio Gallery Bio Kathleen Hanhee Kye is one of South Korea’s most popular modern designers known for her KYE brand. Born in Detroit Michigan, Kathleen moved to South Korea at age three. Eventually after developing a love for fashion she traveled overseas and […]

Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs

Fashion Designer of the Month for January 2024 Twitter Instagram Youtube Bio Gallery Bio Born in 1963 in New York City and raised in Teaneck New Jersey, American fashion designer Marc Jacobs got his start as a design assistant for Perry Ellis. Following his time with Ellis, Jacobs created his fashion label in 1986, which […]

Tom Ford

Tom Ford

Fashion Designer of the Month for December 2023 Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Pinterest Mouse-pointer Bio Gallery Bio Tom Ford hails from Austin, Texas, and first found his place in fashion at the Parsons School of Design in Paris, where he had originally been studying architecture. Influenced by the style of his mother and grandmother, he went on to […]

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