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line for Hat designer; worked with John Galliano and Rifat Ozbek, 1989; opened showroom in London, 1991; began working with Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel, from 1991; began designing diffusion Debenhams, 1992; shows sponsored by Harvey Nichols, Debenhams, Rolls Royce, British Fashion Council, Swarovski Crystal, Max Factor, and others, 1993-98; launched accessories line, 1997; participated in British Invasion at Saks Fifth Avenue, 1998; showings in Singapore and Vienna, 1999; moved to 12 Elizabeth Street, 1999; Paris couture week appearance, 2000; signed with Trussardi for an exclusive women’s hat collection, 2001. Former Royal College of Art student Philip Treacy was recognized as a talented milliner even before graduating from college where his final show was sponsored by Harper’s & Queen magazine, London. In the years since leaving college, the Irish-born Treacy has moved to the forefront of the fashion world, producing hats for some of the most prestigious couture and ready-to-wear designers, including Chanel, Versace, Givenchy,Valentino, and Rifat Ozbek. Described as the Rembrandt of millinery byestablished hat designer, Shirley Hex, Treacy’s monumental creationsfor the fashion catwalks often receive as much publicity as the outfitsfor which they were designed.
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Dries van Noten (1958-) is a Belgian fashion designer. He was born into a family of tailors; his father owned a menswear shop and his grandfather was a tailor. He studied at the Antwerp Fashion Academy where he graduated in 1980. His career as a designer took off in 1986 when he presented his first menswear collection in London, together with five other Belgian designers (”The Antwerp Six“). He currently creates four collections a year (men’s and women’s, both for summer and winter) and used to have a children’s line (no longer in production). His work is characterised by a creative use of prints (often ethnic), colours, original fabrics and layering. He has a passionate and faithful following despite the fact he does not advertise. Dries Van Noten works and lives in Antwerp. He has several shops, the first one being “Het Modepaleis” which opened in Antwerp in 1989, followed by shops in Hong Kong and Tokyo. He sells to around 500 shops around the world; his company is entirely self-financed.
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Donatella Versace was born with a natural Italian flair for personal style. Her emerging creative talents were nurtured by her mother and by the majestic, wild, and sun-drenched atmosphere of the Calabrian southwest coast of Italy where she grew up. Versace’s mother, Francesca, the inspired and doted-upon couturier to the Italian aristocracy of postwar Europe, had a strength of character and boldness as a designer that shaped both her son Gianni Versace’s extraordinary career and the personality of her daughter. As a teenager, Donatella was as untamed as the countryside she grewup in. She was the darling of her older brother, Gianni, who took hereverywhere and whose admiration sharpened her already vivid sense ofthe dramatic opportunities that life might hold for her. Versaceintroduces herself with a vignette about her adolescent style: “When Iwas a teenager, I wore black fitted shirts with tight black pants and aleather jacket. This, over the years, became my signature look. Thisstyle became the basis of many of my designs.” She was and remainssupremely self-confident and self-assured. Her brother was bothappalled by these tight clothes and high heels and fascinated by herapparent satisfaction with her body.
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One of the most innovative fashion designers of the 20th century, Gianni Versace (1946-1997) startled the world with his clothes made from metal, plastic, and leather, and delighted ballet and opera lovers with his stunning theatrical costumes. Versace socialized with celebrities, who loved and wore his expensive clothing. The world was shocked when the designer was murdered outside his Florida mansion in 1997. Gianni Versace was born on December 2, 1946 in the industrial townof Reggio di Calabria, in southern Italy. His parents, Antonio, anappliance salesperson, and Francesca, a dressmaker and clothing storeowner, had three children-Santo, Gianni, and Donatella. Gianni Versacespent much time in his mother’s shop as a child. He watched her makeclothes and admired the chic women who came into the shop. He knew at ayoung age that he would become a fashion designer. Versace also drewinspiration from the area where he lived. He often wandered among theancient Greek and Roman ruins, which would later provide him withthemes for his clothing. Although he loved clothes, art, and music,Versace studied architectural drafting. At the age of 18, while he wasin school, he also worked for his mother as a buyer, going to fashionshows throughout Europe.
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Vivienne Westwood’s clothes have been described as perverse, irrelevant, and unwearable. Her creations have also been described as brilliant, subversive, and incredibly influential. She is unquestionably among the most important fashion designers of the late 20th century and beyond. Westwood will go down in history as the fashion designer most closely associated with punks, the youth subculture that developed in England in the 1970s. Although her influence extendsfar beyond the era, Westwood’s relationship with the punk subculture iscritically important to an understanding of her style. Just as the modsand hippies had developed their own stylesof dress and music, so did the punks. Yet while the hippies extolledlove and peace, the punks emphasized sex and violence. Punk was about nihilism, blankness and chaos, and sexual deviancy, especially sadomasochism and fetishism. The classic punk style featured safety pins piercing cheeks or lips, spiky hairstyles, and deliberately revolting clothes, which often appropriated the illicit paraphernalia of pornography.
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