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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 Vera Wang |
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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...
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| x Oscar de la Renta |
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Oscar de la Renta (born July 22, 1932) is one of the world's leading fashion designers.
Oscar de la Renta (born Oscar Aristides Renta Fiallo) was born in Santiago de los Caballeros in Dominican Republic, to a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican...
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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 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 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 Vivienne Westwood |
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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,...
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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 Tom Ford |
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Thomas Carlyle "Tom" Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer. 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 Austin, Texas to...
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| x Karl Lagerfeld |
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Fendi | 1977 |
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 Mary Quant |
Mary Quant, OBE, FCSD (born 11 February 1934 in Blackheath, Kent, England) is a British fashion designer, one of the many designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. Born to Welsh parents, Quant studied illustration at...
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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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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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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 Alexander McQueen |
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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...
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| x Bill Blass |
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Bill Blass Limited |
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...
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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 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 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 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 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...
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| x 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...
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| x Ralph Lauren |
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Polo Ralph Lauren |
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 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...
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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 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 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 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 Charles Frederick Worth |
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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...
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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 Jean Patou |
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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...
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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 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 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 Pierre Balmain |
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Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain (b. St. Jean de Maurienne, France, May 18, 1904 – Paris, France, June 29, 1982) was a French fashion designer. Known for sophistication and elegance, he once said that "dressmaking is the architecture of movement."...
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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 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 John Varvatos |
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John Varvatos (born in Detroit, Michigan) is an American contemporary menswear fashion designer.
The Varvatos family are originally from the Greek island of Kefalonia. John Varvatos grew up in the metro Detroit suburb of Allen Park, a downriver...
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| x Geoffrey Beene |
Geoffrey Beene (August 30, 1924 – September 28, 2004) was an American fashion designer.
Beene was born in Haynesville, Louisiana. He studied medicine at Tulane University, but dropped out in 1946, after three years. He moved to New York in 1947 to...
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| x Cristóbal Balenciaga |
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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...
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| x Louis Feraud |
Louis Féraud (13 February 1921 - 28 December 1999) was a French fashion designer and artist.
In 1950, Louis Féraud created his first "Maison de Couture" in Cannes and by 1955 had established a couture house in Paris on the Rue du Faubourg Saint...
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| x Jil Sander |
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Jil Sander AG | 1973 | 2005 |
Heidemarie Jiline 'Jil' Sander (born 27 November 1943) is a minimalist German fashion designer and the founder of the Jil Sander fashion house.
Sander's trademark look, a contemporary, somewhat austere, New Look – originally intended for women...
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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 Sonia Rykiel |
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Sonia Rykiel |
Sonia Rykiel (b. 25 May 1930, Paris, France) is a French fashion designer.
Ethnically a Polish Jew, Sonia Rykiel was born in Paris, France in 1930. At the age of 17, she was employed to dress the window displays in a Parisian textile store. Sonia...
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| x Hanae Mori |
Hanae Mori (森 英恵 Mori Hanae, born January 8, 1926) is one of the most prominent and respected fashion designers in Japan. She is the only Japanese woman to have presented her collections on the runways of Paris and New York, and the first Asian...
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| x Manolo Blahnik |
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Manolo Blahnik (pronounced /məˈnoʊloʊ ˈblænɨk/ BLAN-ik), CBE, (born 27 November 1942 Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands, is a Spanish born British fashion designer and founder of the self-named, high-end shoe brand.
Born to a Czech father and a...
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| x Ann Demeulemeester |
Ann Demeulemeester (born 1959, Waregem, Belgium) is a fashion designer whose label ('Ann Demeulemeester') gothic fashion clothing is usually displayed during Paris Fashion Week.
She studied fashion design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp...
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| x Rudolph Moshammer |
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Rudolph Moshammer (September 27, 1940 – January 14, 2005) was a German fashion designer. He came to a violent death at the age of 64 in Grünwald near Munich, Germany.
Born in Munich, Germany, Moshammer had an education in retail industry trading. He...
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| x Daniel Hechter |
Daniel Hechter (born 30 July 1938) is a French fashion designer, sometimes referred to as the inventor of Pret-a-Porter or ready-to-wear .
Hechter was born in Paris, France, into a Jewish family who owned a ready-to-wear company. As such, Hechter...
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| x Akira Isogawa |
Akira Isogawa (Japanese: 五十川 明 Isogawa Akira, b. 1964) is one of Australia's most prominent contemporary fashion designers. Born in Japan, he immigrated to Australia in 1986, studying fashion at East Sydney College and setting up a store in Sydney's...
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| x Matthew Williamson |
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Matthew Williamson is an English fashion designer. His collections are shown twice a year during New York Fashion Week, and they often have an Indian influence, perhaps related to the time Williamson spent working in India for the clothing store...
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| x Alexandre Herchcovitch |
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Alexandre Herchcovitch | 1994 |
Alexandre Herchcovitch (born in 21 July 1971, in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian fashion designer.
Alexandre Herchcovitch is a designer who is able to transform classic into modern, simple into glamourous, easy into complex. His designs have been...
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| x Zang Toi |
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Zang Toi (Chinese: 冼書瀛; pinyin: Xiǎn Shūyíng) is a New York based Malaysian fashion designer.
He was born in Kelantan of the Kuala Krai district on 11 June 1961. Toi left his native Malaysia at the age of eighteen, and via Toronto, landed in New...
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| x Anja Gockel |
Anja Gockel (b. 1968 in Mainz) is a German fashion designer.
She studied in Hamburg and London (Central Saint Martins School) and started to work for Vivienne Westwood.
Her dresses are quite feminine and colourful. She works in an old factory...
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| x Anna Sui |
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Anna Sui |
Anna Sui (born August 4, 1964) is an American fashion designer. Her brand retails globally in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Her clothing, fragrance, cosmetic, and accessories lines sell through her stores in over 50 countries and...
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| x Catherine Malandrino |
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Catherine Malandrino |
Catherine Malandrino is a fashion designer. She was born in Grenoble, France and now works in New York City as well as in Paris.
Since starting her own label, Catherine Malandrino has woven together the energy of Manhattan with the romance and...
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| x Carolina Herrera |
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Carolina Herrera (born María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño on January 8, 1939), Marchioness of Torre Casa, is a Venezuelan fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded her eponymous company in 1980.
Herrera was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Based...
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| x Marc Jacobs |
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1994 |
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 Takeo Kikuchi |
Takeo Kikuchi (菊池 武夫, Kikuchi Takeo, born May 25, 1939) is a famous Japanese industrial and fashion designer. He designs such things as spectacle frames and chronographs in addition to clothing.
In 2004 he bowed out from designing his own self-named...
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