Manolo Blahnik started his career in shoes in the Seventies and he continues today to be an iconic fashion designer of beautiful and timeless designs. Today his shoes are synonymous with glamour and sex appeal and the shoes themselves are as notorious as the women that wear them.
Manolo Blahnik was born in 1943 in the […]
Born in 1962, Tom Ford hails from Austin, TX and spent most of his life in Santa Fe, NM. As a teen, he moved to New York City and attended New York University studying art history. He then moved to the famous Parsons School of Design in both New York and Paris, and concluded at […]
Anna Sui (pronounced Swee) was born in Detroit in 1964 to immigrant parents. She started her iconic career at a young age by clipping out pages from fashion magazines and filing them away in her “Genius Files” that were her source of inspiration during her entire career. It was during her senior year […]
I will admit that the creators of Sex and the City made a huge contribution towards my addiction to fashion and clothes. On this show we watched Sarah Jessica Parker, then Carrie Bradshaw, fall in love with Manolos and Mr. Big – in that order. We saw her heart break when her boyfriend made her […]
Iris Apfel has been called everything from a rare bird of fashion to the oldest living teenager and it is easy to see why. She exudes a completely unique and distinct personal style that mixes both high and low end fashion on a daily basis. On any given day you can see her sporting a […]
Anyone who has opened a fashion magazine knows who this icon is. Donatella Versace is an iconic Italian fashion designer just like her even more iconic brother Gianni Versace. It was Gianni who founded the Versace clothing kingdom and Donatella is the Vice President of the Group and also its Chief Designer.
Donatella was born in […]
When Cynthia Steffe stepped down from her own namesake line, it was Waleed Khairzada who was named creative director of the house. He was a former Ecco Domani award winning founder designer of the now archived Naum label. His first collection came in spring 2007 and he called it Resort Holiday, saying it took (because […]
This design house is made of a two man team by the names of Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCullough. Proenza Schouler was formed by adopting the two maiden names of their mothers. How can you not love the guys who name their business after mom? Both men were born in 1979 and met while studying […]
The house of Marni is the birthright of Consuela Castiglioni. She is one of the IT designers today, and her label is quickly becoming a favorite among the fashion savvy. This Switzerland born fashionista found her mark when she married Gianni Castiglioni at the age of 25. He was then the head of Giwi Furs, […]
The house of Ricci was built by Nina Ricci and her son Robert in 1932 and business literally exploded when the refined, feminine, and romantic look of Maria “Nina” Ricci put her own tastes into the clothes she made. Her son is the Einstein behind L’Air Du Temps fragrance – the ultimate post war perfume […]