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Charles Frederick Worth
Charles Frederick Worth (October 13, 1825 – March 10, 1895), widely considered the Father of Haute Couture, was an English-born fashion designer of the 19th century.
Born in Bourne, Lincolnshire*, England, Worth made his mark in the French fashion...
Date of birth:
- Oct 13, 1825
Date of death:
- Mar 10, 1895 (age 69 years)
Coco Chanel
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...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1883
Date of death:
- Jan 10, 1971 (age 87 years)
Cristóbal Balenciaga
Cristóbal Balenciaga Eisaguirre (January 21, 1895, Spain – March 23, 1972, Spain) was a Spanish Basque fashion designer and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house.
Balenciaga was born in Guetaria, a fishing Basque town in Gipuzkoa, Spain, on...
Date of birth:
- Jan 21, 1895
Date of death:
- Mar 23, 1972 (age 77 years)
Christian Dior
Christian Dior (21 January 1905, Granville, Manche – 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, Manche, a...
Date of birth:
- Jan 21, 1905
Date of death:
- Oct 24, 1957 (age 52 years)
Yves Saint-Laurent
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, known as Yves Saint Laurent (French pronunciation: [iv sɛ̃ loʁɑ̃]; 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...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1936
Date of death:
- Jun 1, 2008 (age 71 years)
Karl Lagerfeld
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...
Date of birth:
- Sep 10, 1933 (age 76 years)
Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani (born 11 July 1934) 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 successful...
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1934 (age 75 years)
Valentino
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.
Valentino became interested in men and women's fashion while in primary school in his...
Date of birth:
- May 11, 1932 (age 77 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- Feb 20, 1927 (age 82 years)
Nino Cerruti
Nino Cerruti (born September 25, 1930 in Biella, Piemonte) is an Italian stylist and fashion producer.
The head of the family woolen business after his father's untimely death. Nino's grandfather had founded a textile mill in Biella, Italy in 1881 ...
Date of birth:
- Sep 25, 1930 (age 79 years)
Pierre Cardin
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...
Date of birth:
- 1922 (age 88 years)
Roberto Cavalli
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...
Date of birth:
- Nov 15, 1940 (age 69 years)
Emanuel Ungaro
Emanuel (Maffeolit) Ungaro (13 February 1933 in Aix-en-Provence) is a French fashion designer.
Born to Italian parents who had fled to France from Francavilla Fontana of Brindisi province because of the fascist Italian government. As a young boy,...
Date of birth:
- 1933 (age 77 years)
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Jean-Paul Gaultier (born 24 April 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...
Date of birth:
- Apr 24, 1952 (age 57 years)
Emilio Pucci
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...
Date of birth:
- Nov 20, 1914
Date of death:
- Nov 29, 1992 (age 78 years)
Christian Lacroix
Christian Marie Marc Lacroix (born May 16, 1951 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône; French pronunciation: [kʁistjɑ̃ lakʁwa]) is a high-end French fashion designer. The name may also refer to the company he founded.
Christian Lacroix was born in Arles, in...
Date of birth:
- May 16, 1951 (age 58 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- Nov 28, 1960 (age 49 years)
Gianni Versace
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...
Date of birth:
- Dec 2, 1946
Date of death:
- Jul 15, 1997 (age 50 years)
Alexander McQueen
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...
Date of birth:
- Mar 17, 1969 (age 40 years)
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours...
Date of birth:
- May 28, 1968 (age 41 years)
Dannii Minogue
Danielle Jane "Dannii" Minogue (born 20 October 1971) is an Australian singer and actress. Minogue rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show, Young Talent Time and the soap opera Home and Away,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 20, 1971 (age 38 years)
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams; born 17 April 1974) is an English singer, songwriter, dancer, fashion designer, author, businesswoman, actress and model.
During her rise to fame with 1990's pop group the Spice Girls, Beckham was dubbed Posh...
Date of birth:
- Apr 17, 1974 (age 35 years)
Vera Wang
Vera Wang (Chinese: 王薇薇; pinyin: Wáng Wēiwei; born June 27, 1949) is an American fashion designer based in New York. She is known for her wedding gown collection.
Wang was born and raised in New York, NY of Chinese descent. Her parents were born in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 27, 1949 (age 60 years)
Hilary Duff
Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress and recording artist. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, Duff gained fame for playing the title role in the television series Lizzie...
Date of birth:
- Sep 28, 1987 (age 22 years)
Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne (born 27 October 1984) is an English media personality, fashion designer, singer, actress, and model, known for being the daughter of Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne. She was thrust into the limelight after appearing on...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1984 (age 25 years)
Donna Karan
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...
Date of birth:
- Oct 2, 1948 (age 61 years)
Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI (born 8 April 1941) is a British fashion designer largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.
Westwood was born as Vivienne Isabel Swire in the village of Tintwistle, near...
Date of birth:
- Apr 8, 1941 (age 68 years)
Sean Combs
Sean John Combs (born Harlem, NY November 4, 1969), known by his stage name Diddy, is an American record producer, rapper, actor, men's fashion designer, entrepreneur and dancer. He won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards, and his...
Date of birth:
- Nov 4, 1969 (age 40 years)
Paul Smith
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....
Date of birth:
- Jul 5, 1946 (age 63 years)
Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1964 (age 45 years)
Gwen Stefani
Gwen Stefani was born in October 3, 1969 in Fullerton, California. She is a singer, actress, songwriter and fashion designer. Stefani was part of the group "No Doubt", a group that she joined in 1986, but the group split and she began her...
Date of birth:
- Oct 3, 1969 (age 40 years)
Tom Ford
Thomas Carlyle "Tom" Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and film director. He gained international fame for his turnaround of the Gucci fashion house and the creation of the Tom Ford label.
Ford was born August 27, 1961 in...
Date of birth:
- Aug 27, 1961 (age 48 years)
Nikki Sixx
Nikki Sixx (born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, Jr., December 11, 1958) is an American bassist, author, photographer, and the main songwriter for the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. He has also played bass for glam metal band London, the experimental...
Date of birth:
- Dec 11, 1958 (age 51 years)
Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965) is an English model and actress who became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s. Born in Basingstoke, Hurley was a struggling actress in 1987, when she met Grant while working on a Spanish...
Date of birth:
- Jun 10, 1965 (age 44 years)
Carlota Alfaro
Carlota Alfaro (born June 4, 1933) is a high fashion designer from Puerto Rico. She is perhaps the best known Puerto Rican fashion designer.
Alfaro showed a passion for design ever since she was a child, often designing clothes for family and...
Date of birth:
- Jun 4, 1933 (age 76 years)
Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake (三宅 一生, Miyake Issei, born 22 April 1938) is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances.
Miyake was born 22 April 1938 in Hiroshima, Japan. As a seven year-old, he...
Date of birth:
- 1938 (age 72 years)
Mena Suvari
Mena Alexandra Suvari (born February 13, 1979) is an American actress, model, fashion designer and spokeswoman, best known for her role as Angela in American Beauty (1999), as well as the comedies American Pie (1999) and its sequel American Pie 2 ...
Date of birth:
- Feb 13, 1979 (age 30 years)
Lilly Daché
Lilly Daché (October 10, 1898 – December 31, 1989) was a French milliner and fashion designer.
She was born in Bègles, Gironde, France, and began her fashion career there at the age of 15 as a milliner, apprenticed under Caroline Reboux and Suzanne...
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1898
Date of death:
- Dec 31, 1989 (age 91 years)
Mandy Moore
Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore (born April 10, 1984) is an American singer–songwriter, actress and fashion designer. She grew up in Florida. Moore became famous as a teenager in the late 1990s, after the release of her teen-oriented pop albums So Real,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1984 (age 25 years)
Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American socialite, heiress, media personality, model, singer, author, fashion designer and actress.
Hilton is best known for her appearance on the television series The Simple Life, her several...
Date of birth:
- Feb 17, 1981 (age 28 years)
Bill Blass
William Ralph "Bill" Blass (June 22, 1922 – June 12, 2002) was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns. He is the recipient of many fashion...
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1922
Date of death:
- Jun 12, 2002 (age 80 years)
Isaac Mizrahi
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, and comes from Jews who lived in Egypt. He is the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 14, 1961 (age 48 years)
Calvin Klein
Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Calvin Klein also gave his name to a range of perfumes, including CK...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1942 (age 67 years)
Tommy Hilfiger
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...
Date of birth:
- Mar 24, 1951 (age 58 years)
Ossie Clark
Raymond "Ossie" Clark (9 June 1942–6 August 1996) was an English fashion designer who was a major figure in the Swinging Sixties scene in London and the fashion industry in that era. As a result, Ossie is now extremely well renowned for his vintage...
Date of birth:
- Jun 9, 1942
Date of death:
- Aug 6, 1996 (age 54 years)
Derek Lam
Derek Lam is an American fashion designer. He was born in San Francisco, California and is of Chinese American parentage. Lam is the youngest of three children in his fourth-generation family. His parents had a business that imported clothes from...
Date of birth:
- 1967 (age 43 years)
Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren (born 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...
Date of birth:
- Oct 14, 1939 (age 70 years)
Patricia Field
Patricia Field is an American costume designer, stylist and fashion designer.
Field was born in New York City and raised in Astoria, Queens to Greek and Armenian parents, after they immigrated there from the island of Chios in Greece. She has...
Donatella Versace
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...
Date of birth:
- May 2, 1955 (age 54 years)
Nicky Hilton
Nicholai "Nicky" Olivia Hilton (born October 5, 1983) is an American fashion model, socialite, celebutante, entrepreneur, heiress, and fashion designer. She shares her nickname with her grandfather's brother, Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, who died fourteen...
Date of birth:
- Oct 5, 1983 (age 26 years)
Leigh Bowery
Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 - 31 December 1994) was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, pop star, model and fashion designer, based in London. Bowery is considered one of the more influential figures in the 1980s and 1990s London...
Date of birth:
- Mar 26, 1961
Date of death:
- Dec 31, 1994 (age 33 years)
Sharon den Adel
Sharon Janny den Adel (born 12 July 1974, in Waddinxveen, South Holland) is a Dutch mezzo-soprano and composer, best known as the lead singer and one of the main songwriters in the Dutch symphonic rock/metal band Within Temptation.
She performed...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1974 (age 35 years)
Russell Simmons
Russell Wendell Simmons (born October 4, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, the co-founder, with Rick Rubin, of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam, and creator of the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and American Classics.
Russell...
Date of birth:
- Oct 4, 1957 (age 52 years)
Paul Poiret
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...
Date of birth:
- Apr 20, 1879
Date of death:
- Apr 30, 1944 (age 65 years)
André Courrèges
André Courrèges (born March 9 1923 in Pau) is a French fashion designer, known for his ultra-modern designs. At the age of 25, after studying to be a civil engineer, he went to Paris to work at Geanne Lafaurie fashion design house. A few months...
Date of birth:
- Mar 9, 1923 (age 86 years)
Egon von Fürstenberg
Egon von Fürstenberg or Prince Egon of Fürstenberg (June 29, 1946 – June 11, 2004) was a fashion designer.
The Fürstenberg family is descended from both Stéphanie de Beauharnais (adoptive daughter and first cousin of the stepchildren and also...
Date of birth:
- Jun 29, 1946
Date of death:
- Jun 11, 2004 (age 57 years)
Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli (10 September 1890 — 13 November 1973) was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 10, 1890
Date of death:
- Nov 13, 1973 (age 83 years)
Jean Patou
Jean Patou (August 19, 1880 - March 8, 1936) was a French fashion designer.
Patou was born in Normandy, France in 1880. Patou's family's business was in tanning and furs. Patou worked with his uncle in Normandy, then moved to Paris in 1910, intent...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1880
Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1936 (age 55 years)
Madeleine Vionnet
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...
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1876
Date of death:
- Mar 2, 1975 (age 98 years)
Sofia Rotaru
Sofia Myhajlivna Jevdokymenko-Rotaru (born August 7, 1947) known as Sofia Rotaru (Ukrainian: Софiя Ротару; IPA: [sɔˈfijɑ rɔˈtɑru]) is a Ukrainian pop singer of Moldavian heritage.
Born to a large, impoverished family in Marshintsy, Rotaru, called...
Date of birth:
- Aug 7, 1947 (age 62 years)
