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| x Yves Saint-Laurent |
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Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, known as Yves Saint Laurent (1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008), was an Algerian-born French fashion designer who was considered one of the greatest figures in French fashion in the 20th century. In 1985, Caroline...
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| x Marcus Schenkenberg |
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Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop, better known as Marcus Schenkenberg (born August 4, 1968) is a model, actor, singer, writer, and TV personality born in Stockholm, Sweden to Dutch parents. He has dual citizenship with Sweden and the...
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| x Gucci |
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The House of Gucci, better known as Gucci (pronounced Guch-ie), is a Florentine fashion and leather goods label, part of the Gucci Group, which is owned by French company Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR). Gucci was founded by Guccio Gucci (1869 –...
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| x Chanel |
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Chanel S.A., commonly known as Chanel (English pronunciation: /ʃəˈnɛl/), is a Parisian fashion house founded by the late couturier Coco Chanel, recognized as one of the most chic in the haute couture. Specializing in luxury goods (haute couture,...
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| x Hermès |
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Hermès International, S.A., or simply Hermès (French pronunciation: [ɛʁmɛs], English: /ɛərˈmɛz/ ( listen)) is a French high fashion house specializing in leather, ready-to-wear, lifestyle accessories, perfumery, and luxury goods. The company is...
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| x Kate Moss |
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Katherine "Kate" Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is an English model. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers. She is known for her waifish figure, uncommonly short height for a fashion model, and appearances in many advertising campaigns. She...
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| x Elle Macpherson |
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Elle Macpherson (pronounced /ˈɛl məkˈfɝːsən/; born 29 March 1963) is an Australian model, actress, and businesswoman. She is perhaps best known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s....
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| x Alek Wek |
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Alek Wek (born 16 April 1977) is a Sudanese model who first appeared on the catwalks at the age of 18 in 1995, sparking a career lasting to date. She is from the Dinka ethnic group in the Sudan, but in 1991 she and some family members fled to...
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| x Coco Chanel |
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Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century...
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| x Elsa Schiaparelli |
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Elsa Schiaparelli (10 September 1890 — 13 November 1973) was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli's...
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| x Margaux Hemingway |
Margaux Louise Hemingway (February 16, 1955 – July 1, 1996) was an American fashion model and actress.
Margaux Louise Hemingway was born in Portland, Oregon, and was the older sister of actress Mariel Hemingway and the granddaughter of writer Ernest...
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| x Lisa Fonssagrives |
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Lisa Fonssagrives (May 17, 1911 – February 4, 1992), born Lisa Bernstone in Sweden, was a fashion model credited by some as the first supermodel.
Her image appeared on the cover of many magazines during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, from Town &...
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| x Twiggy |
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Twiggy (born Lesley Hornby; 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer, now also known by her married name of Twiggy Lawson. At 16, she became the first prominent teenage model. She was known for her large eyes, long eyelashes, and...
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| x Wilhelmina Cooper |
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Wilhelmina Cooper (May 1, 1939 – March 1, 1980) was a model who began with Ford Models and, at the peak of her success, founded her own agency, Wilhelmina Models, in New York City in 1967.
Born Wilhelmina Behmenburg in Culemborg, the Netherlands,...
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| x Veruschka |
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Vera Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort (born May 14, 1939 in Königsberg, East Prussia, now known as Kaliningrad, Russia) is a German model, actress, and artist who was popular during the 1960s. Often known simply as Veruschka or Veruschka von Lehndorff,...
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| x Jean Shrimpton |
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Jean Shrimpton (born 7 November 1942 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) is an English model and actress. Nicknamed "The Shrimp", she was an icon of Swinging London, possessing some of the gamine features that also made a huge success of the younger...
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| x Donyale Luna |
Donyale Luna (1 January 1945 - 17 May 1979) was the first notable African American model and the first black cover girl. She also appeared in several films, most notably as the title character in Salome, a 1972 film by director Carmelo Bene, and...
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| x Beverly Johnson |
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Beverly Johnson (born October 13, 1952) is an American model, actress, and businesswoman. She made history when she rose to fame as the first black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in 1974, paving the way for black women in fashion,...
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| x Linda Evangelista |
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Linda Evangelista (born May 10, 1965) is a Canadian model.
Evangelista was born to Italian-Canadian parents and was raised in a working-class, traditional Roman Catholic family in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, where she attended Denis Morris...
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| x Christy Turlington |
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Christy Nicole Turlington (born January 2, 1969) is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007. She has worked on dozens of modeling contracts with companies including Maybelline Cosmetics and Versace. Turlington...
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| x Cindy Crawford |
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Cindy Crawford (born February 20, 1966) is a former American model. Known for her trademark mole just above her lip, Crawford has adorned hundreds of magazine covers throughout her career. She was named #3 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s. Her...
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| x Mathias Lauridsen |
Mathias Lauridsen (born January 13, 1984) is a male model from Copenhagen, Denmark and has been featured in numerous ad campaigns including Jil Sander, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Lacoste and Hermès.
He was discovered in 2003 and is currently signed with Ford...
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| x Tyson Beckford |
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Tyson Craig Beckford (born December 19, 1971) is an American model and actor, best known as a Ralph Lauren model. He is currently the host on the Bravo program Make Me a Supermodel.
Beckford was born on December 19, 1971 to a Black Jamaican father...
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| x Mark Vanderloo |
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Mark Vanderloo (born April 24, 1968, Waddinxveen ) is a Dutch model. Vanderloo owns homes in Amsterdam, New York City, and Paris.
At age 22, Vanderloo entered the University of Amsterdam to study history. He began modeling after accompanying a model...
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| x Alex Lundqvist |
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Alex Lundqvist (born April 14, 1972) is a male Swedish model. He is a professional paintball player for the team Jersey Authority in the National Professional Paintball League (NPPL) and formerly Russian Legion in the Paintball Sports Promotion (PSP...
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| x Will Chalker |
Will Chalker (born 7 March 1980 in East Sussex, England) is an English model and an amateur boxer.
He began modelling at the age of twenty in 2000, leaving his earlier career as a construction worker after a friend took test shots of him.
His big...
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| x Evandro Soldati |
Evandro Soldati (born April 17, 1985 in Brazil) is a brazilian male model. According to Forbes, he was the 7th most successful male model in the world in 2008. Evandro is of Italian ancestry.
He started modelling in 2002 when his mother signed him...
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| x Tyson Ballou |
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Tyson Brett Ballou (born in November 14, 1976) is a male supermodel. Discovered by the modeling agency, Page Parkes, he has become one of the industry's most sought-after male models.
Born in Garland, Texas, he began modeling at the age of 15 years...
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| x Michael Bergin |
Michael John Bergin, (born March 18, 1969 in Waterbury, Connecticut), is considered to have been one of the first males to have achieved supermodel status, previously reserved for women such as Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, and Iman.
Bergin...
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| x Cole Haan |
Cole Haan is a fashion label that was founded in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1928.
The name comes from founders Trafton Cole and Eddie Haan. Originally Cole Haan was a men's footwear label. Today it offers many products, including men's and...
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| x Tommy Hilfiger |
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Thomas Jacob "Tommy" Hilfiger (born March 24, 1951) is an American fashion designer and founder of the brand Tommy Hilfiger.
Hilfiger was born and raised in Elmira, New York. The second of eight children, he grew up in an Irish-American family; he...
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| x Marc Jacobs |
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Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963 in New York City) is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as the diffusion line Marc by Marc Jacobs. Jacobs is currently the Creative Director of the prestigious French design...
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| x Donna Karan |
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Donna Karan (born October 2, 1948 as Donna Ivy Faske) is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.
Karan was born Donna Ivy Faske on October 2, 1948 in Forest Hills, Queens. She grew up in...
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| x Ralph Lauren |
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Ralph Lauren (b. October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive; best-known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.
Ralph Lauren was born as Ralph Rueben Lifshitz in The Bronx, New York to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from...
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| x Isaac Mizrahi |
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Isaac Mizrahi (born October 14, 1961) is an American fashion designer and the creative director of Liz Claiborne. He is best known for his eponymous fashion lines.
Mizrahi was born in Brooklyn, NY, of Egyptian heritage. He is the cousin of rock...
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| x Christian Siriano |
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Christian Siriano (born November 18, 1985) is an American fashion designer and the winner of the fourth season of American reality show Project Runway. Siriano is the show's youngest winner.
Siriano was born in Columbia, Maryland to Joye and Peter...
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| x Kate Spade |
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Kate Spade (born Katherine Noel Brosnahan in Kansas City, Missouri; December 24, 1962) is the co-founder and namesake of the designer brand, Kate Spade New York.
Spade graduated from St. Teresa's Academy, an all-girl Catholic high school in Kansas...
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| x John Galliano |
Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano Guillén, CBE, RDI (born 28 November 1960), professionally known as John Galliano, is a Gibraltarian-British fashion designer.
Born in Gibraltar to a Gibraltarian father and a Spanish mother, Galliano moved to Streatham...
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| x Stella McCartney |
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Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer. She is the daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and the late photographer and animal rights activist, Linda McCartney.
Stella McCartney was born in London on 13...
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| x Alexander McQueen |
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Alexander McQueen CBE (born Lee Alexander McQueen, 17 March 1969) is an English fashion designer.
Born in the East End of London, the son of a taxi driver, McQueen started making dresses for his three sisters at a young age and announced his...
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| x Paul Smith |
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Sir Paul Smith, RDI, (born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire on July 5, 1946) is an English fashion designer, whose business and reputation is founded upon his menswear. He is both commercially successful and highly respected within the fashion industry....
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| x Pierre Cardin |
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Pierre Cardin is an Italian-born French fashion designer, who was born on July 7, 1922, at San Biagio di Callalta near Treviso.
Cardin was known for his avant-garde style and his space age designs. He prefers geometric shapes and motifs, often...
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| x Christian Dior |
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Christian Dior (21 January 1905 – 24 October 1957), was an influential French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior. He was born in Granville, Normandy, a seaside town on the...
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| x Jean-Paul Gaultier |
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Jean-Paul Gaultier (born April 24 1952, in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, France) is a French haute couture fashion designer and previous host of television series Eurotrash.
Gaultier never received formal training as a designer. Instead, he started sending...
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| x Hubert de Givenchy |
Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy (born February 20, 1927) is a French aristocrat and fashion designer who founded the The House of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of...
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| x Christian Lacroix |
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Christian Marie Marc Lacroix (born May 16, 1951 in Arles; French pronunciation: [kʁistjɑ̃ lakʁwa]) is a high-end French fashion designer.
Christian Lacroix was born in Arles, in southern France. At a young age he began sketching historical costumes...
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| x Thierry Mugler |
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Thierry Mugler (born 1948 in Strasbourg, France) is a fashion designer, photographer, and creator of a fashion design company of the same name.
Mugler's early training was as a ballet dancer, but he also studied design and created garments for...
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| x Paul Poiret |
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Paul Poiret (20 April 1879, Paris, France - 30 April 1944, Paris) was a French fashion designer. His contributions to twentieth-century fashion have been likened to Picasso's contributions to twentieth-century art.
Poiret was born on April 20, 1879...
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| x Madeleine Vionnet |
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Madeleine Vionnet (June 22, 1876 - March 2,1975) was a French fashion designer. Called the "Queen of the bias cut" and "the architect among dressmakers", Vionnet is best-known today for her elegant Grecian-style dresses and for introducing the bias...
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| x Karl Lagerfeld |
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Karl Lagerfeld (born Karl Otto Lagerfeld; September 10, 1933) is a German-born fashion designer and artist based in Paris, France. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative...
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| x Giorgio Armani |
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Giorgio Armani (born 11 July 1934 in Piacenza) is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He is known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most...
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| x Roberto Cavalli |
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Roberto Cavalli (November 15, 1940) is an Italian fashion designer from Florence.
Roberto Cavalli was born in Florence, Italy on November 15, 1940 to an artistic family; his grandfather, Giuseppe Rossi, was a prolific member of the Macchiaioli...
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| x Valentino |
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Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, best known as Valentino (born 11 May 1932) is an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Valentino SpA brand and company. His fashion house is among the world's most famous haute couture and ready-to-wear...
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| x Salvatore Ferragamo |
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Salvatore Ferragamo (June 5, 1898 – August 7, 1960) was a Florentine and Italian shoe designer. He worked with many Hollywood stars in the 1920s, before returning to Italy to found the eponymous company making unique hand-made footwear. His...
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| x Franco Moschino |
Franco Moschino (born February 27, 1950 - September 18, 1994) was an Italian fashion designer remembered for his witty, colorful, lively and provocative designs which not only challenged, but poked fun at, the fashion establishment.
He was born in...
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| x Miuccia Prada |
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Miuccia Bianchi Prada (born Maria Bianchi 10 May 1949, in Milan) is an Italian fashion designer (Prada, Miu Miu) and entrepreneur. She also has a Ph.D. in Political Science.
She is the youngest granddaughter of Mario Prada, founder of the company....
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| x Emilio Pucci |
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Emilio Pucci, Marchese di Barsento (November 20, 1914 – 29 November 1992) was a Florentine Italian fashion designer and politician. He and his eponymous company are synonymous with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colours.
Pucci was born in...
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| x Nina Ricci |
Nina Ricci (January 14, 1883 - November 30, 1970) was a French fashion designer of Italian origin.
Maria Nielli was born in Turin, Italy in 1883, she moved to Florence with her family at age 5 and then to France in 1895 at age 12. She was nicknamed...
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| x Donatella Versace |
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Donatella Versace (born 2 May 1955) is an Italian fashion designer, as was her brother, the late Gianni Versace, the founder of the Versace clothing brand. Her current title is Vice-President of the Versace Group and Chief Designer of the fashion...
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| x Gianni Versace |
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Gianni Versace (December 2, 1946 – July 15, 1997) was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Gianni Versace S.p.A., an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, makeup and home furnishings as well as clothes. He also...
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