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Armani
Exchange    |
Armani Exchange makes statements, in more ways than one. It's the voice of urban youth, a fashion conscience, an incubator for Giorgio Armani's new ideas and the street barometer of his fashion directions. Armani Exchange is a translation of Mr. Armani's pure sense of design to an innovative, interchangeable mix of edgy separates for men and women. |
Adrienne Vittadini |
Adrienne Vittadini launched her sportwear brand in 1979, reinventing knitwear as a viable sportswear category proving consumers with fresh and feminine styling appropriate for the office or a more casual setting. Ms. Vittadini's design technique emphasized rich textiles and the utilization of luxurious textured yearns. Adrienne designed collections that evoked a sense of casual ease and sophistication. Adrienne Vittadini is designed for the woman who possesses a sophisticated sense of style and enjoys expressing herself through fashion. |
| The daughter of a dressmaker, Alberta Ferretti opened her first boutique in Cattolica, Italy, at the age of 18, and designed her first collection in 1974. She founded her eponymous label in 1980 and showed her ready-to-wear collection on the catwalk in Milan the following year. The line has gained a following for her ultrafeminine cocktail dresses and red-carpet-worthy evening gowns in fluttery bolts of chiffon, draped georgette, charmeuse, and satin. | |
Alessandro Dell'Acqua  |
Alessandro Dell’Acqua’s sensual, lingerie-inspired womenswear keeps his star aloft in the edgier margins of Italian fashion. Sticking primarily to his signature nude and black palette, Dell’Acqua’s cocktail dresses are red-carpet staples, and his va-va-voom separates, like pencil skirts and chiffon blouses, tread the sexy-sweet overlap. The designer, whose come-hither footwear is a hit with upscale gallery girls, cites Italian screen sirens as his main muses. He’s also known for closing his shows to Pat Benatar’s “Love Is a Battlefield.” |
Alexander McQueen  |
The Alexander McQueen label is known for its dramatic, gorgeously constructed pieces, combining elements of British tailoring with French couture. Signature looks include billowy dresses cut in hourglass silhouettes, frock coats paired with skinny pants, sharp, angular suiting, and darkly romantic gowns covered in intricate embroidery and lace. McQueen has flagships in London, New York, Milan, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, as well as franchised stores in Istanbul and Moscow. |
Alexander Wang  |
Alexander Wang launched his first full women’s collection in 2007. The label embodies casually cool downtown style, drawing inspiration from the eighties, French chic, and rock grunge—always finished with a slouchy rolled-out-of-bed edge. Wang launched a diffusion line of pre-weathered cotton tees, tanks, and T-shirt dresses in spring 2009, T by Alexander Wang, as well as a footwear collection of towering platform sandals. He won the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2008. |
| Anna Sui started out in the eighties and debuted on the runway in 1991. Today, her patchwork-boudoir aesthetic is instantly recognizable in her clothing, her store design, even in her beauty packaging. It’s a true lifestyle brand, and business continues to boom: She’s got a Soho flagship, 32 boutiques, international cult status (particularly in Asia), a successful beauty line, and the pièce de resistance: the Anna Sui BoHo Barbie®. | |
Anne Klein  |
Anne Klein was born as Hannah Golofski in New York City on August 3, 1923. She studied art at Girls' Commercial High School in New York and later went to the Traphagen School in New York from 1937 to 1938 to study fashion. Beginning as a sketcher she later rose to prominence as a designer of women's sportswear and apparel, establishing Anne Klein and Co. in 1968. |
Arkadius  |
Arkadius is a Polish fashion designer who is currently living in India. He graduated from the BA course in Fashion Design with Marketing from St. Martin’s College of Art and Design in London in 1999. After graduation he launched his own label, ‘Arkadius’. The list of stars wearing his creations is quite extensive and includes such names as: Christina Aguilera, Ashanti, Björk, Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, Pink, Graham Norton and Adrien Brody. The first product launched in January 2005, are sunglasses under a name of: ‘Arkadius Goggles’. |
| Baby Phat was launched by Russell and Kimora Lee Simmons in 1999 as a brand extension of their Phat Farm hip-hop lifestyle empire. The label embraces the girly "ghetto glam" look and is a favorite of club girls and bootylicious celebrities alike. Now encompassing jeans, cocktail dresses, handbags, outerwear, shoes, and childrenswear, the line is also known for its lavish fashion shows, so packed with rock stars they resemble official MTV events. | |
Badgley Mischka  |
Mark Badgley and James Mischka have been hailed by Vogue as one of the "Top 10 American Designers" and as the darlings of the Hollywood set. The design duo have made their mark over the past two decades with glamorous, stylish and wearable evening wear and accessories. Badgley Mischka timeless designs appeal to a range of fashionable women, including celebrities like Madonna, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Lopez, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Garner, Julia Roberts, Kate Winslet, Sarah Jessica Parker and Ashley Judd. |
Balenciaga |
The Balenciaga brand is most famous for its line of motorcycle-inspired handbags, especially the famous "Lariat." Balenciaga has four exclusive boutiques in the United States. The hip, fresh interpretation of Balenciaga classics, such as the semifitted jacket and the sack dress, caught the attention of the media as well as such celebrities as Madonna and Sinead O’Connor. Balenciaga is also very well known for creating avant-garde structural pieces, straddling the edge of fashion and forecasting the future of women's ready-to-wear fashion. |
Balmain |
French couturier Pierre Balmain founded his house in 1945. Balmain’s elegant, super-feminine looks were favorites among European royalty and Hollywood fashion plates like Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, and Sophia Loren. Investors revived Balmain in 2005, and brought on designer Christophe Decarnin. And for a label that was once known for ultraelegant evening attire with a draping and pleating focus, Decarnin's appointment took it toward tough-chic, thigh-grazing, body-skimming looks—a sensibility that embraces the quintessential trendsetting French party-girl. |
Banana
Republic |
Delivering elevated design and luxurious fabrications at approachable prices, Banana Republic has been credited with helping make fashion more accessible. The brand offers elevated essentials and sophisticated seasonal collections of accessories, shoes, personal care products and intimate apparel. From work to casual occasions, Banana Republic offers covetable, uncomplicated style. |
| BCBG Max Azria Group is taking the world by storm. With critically acclaimed collections, a loyal following of Hollywoods top celebrities, and a strong worldwide presence, this fashion powerhouse has evolved into one of the hottest names in the fashion industry today. Continuously expanding while defining trends, Max Azria has let the industry know that he is indeed building a global empire. | |
| bebe designs, develops and produces a distinctive line of contemporary women's apparel and accessories. Founder Manny Mashouf founded bebe as a San Francisco boutique in 1976, a time when three categories dominated the women's wear market: junior, bridge and missy. Having discovered a demographic that was neither junior nor bridge, Manny aimed to break the mold by offering this under represented population of stylish women distinctive and inspirational fashion bearing an unmistakable hint of sensuality. His concept stuck and bebe reaped early success. | |
Behnaz Sarafpour  |
The Behnaz Sarafpour ladylike label’s been quietly amassing big-name supporters since its launch in 2001. More demure than diva, the line eschews the super-trendy in favor of A-lines, bows, nipped-in waists, and understated bits of floral and lace. Sarafpour, who cut her teeth alongside giants like Isaac and Narciso, is the only designer to have shown a collection inside the fabled Tiffany & Company flagship. Other coups include a spring ’08 capsule collection of organic and ecofriendly looks, and Behnaz Red, Lancôme’s universally flattering lipstick shade, which sold out before it even hit stores. |
Belstaff |
Founded in 1924 by Eli Belovitch and his son in law Harry Grosberg in Staffordshire, Belstaff produced all-weather jackets for motorcyclists, and was the first company to ever use waxed cotton. The company later created weather-protective jackets for other uses, goggles (primarily for the growing aviation market), gloves and several other garments intended to keep the wearer warm, dry and safe. Today, Belstaff markets products to the Far East, Russia, the United States, Australia and South America. |
| New York designer Betsey Johnson has built her long-standing career in fashion by following her own set of rules. Her commitment to remain true to her one-of-a-kind vision has afforded Betsey continued success in an industry known for its fickleness. Her ability to change with the times while keeping her designs pure has not gone unnoticed. At the 1999 CFDA Awards, Betsey was presented The Timeless Talent Award created especially for her, which recognized her influence on fashion throughout her career. | |
Bill Blass  |
Bill Blass became synonymous with elegant sportswear, unfussy, glamorous clothes in luxurious materials that could transition from work to evening. Blass sold the company and retired in 1999. Former Blass assistant Peter Som was brought on as creative director of the Blass label in 2007, staying for little more than a year before leaving to focus on his namesake label in October 2008. A month later, the brand filed for bankruptcy, and by December 2008, menswear company Peacock International Holdings LLC picked up Blass ready-to-wear and couture divisions for a cool $10 million. |
Blugirl  |
After the Blumarine collection achieved both commercial and critical success, designer Anna Molinari created a juniors’ line in 1992. Blugirl carries all the femininity of her mother label, featuring babydoll shapes, chiffon, and fur shrugs. In 2001, Blugirl opened its first stand-alone boutique, and the label has shown at Milan Fashion Week since 2002. In 2007, Molinari started a more casual offshoot of the label, Blugirl Folies. |
Blumarine  |
Designer Anna Molinari and her late husband, Gianpaolo Tarabini, started the Blumarine line in 1977 in Carpi, Italy, where the company’s headquarters are still located today. The brand now falls under Blufin, the Molinari-owned holding company that encompasses Blumarine’s sibling label Blugirl, younger offshoots Miss Blumarine and Blumarine Baby. signature pieces include the Blumarine T-shirt with the logo spelled out in Swarovski crystals and a cardigan with fur trim. |
Bottega Veneta  |
Bottega Veneta is a manufacturer of luxury leather goods, most famous for its Intrecciato line of woven leather. The company is based in Vicenza, in the Veneto region of northeast Italy. A family firm founded in 1966, Bottega Veneta was bought by Gucci in 2001. Bottega is best known for its hand-woven leather goods - bags, belts, and shoes. They are all handcrafted in Italy and retail for €1000 or more. |
Burberry |
Burberry is a luxury brand with a distinctive British sensibility, strong international recognition and differentiating brand values that resonate across a multi-generational and dual-gender audience. The Company designs and sources apparel and accessories distributing through a diversified network of retail, wholesale and licensing channels worldwide. Since its founding in England in 1856, Burberry has been synonymous with quality, innovation and style. |
Calvin
Klein |
Calvin Klein is one of the world’s leading lifestyle design and marketing companies. With headquarters in New York and worldwide operations in Milan, Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Calvin Klein designs and markets a range of designer products that are manufactured and marketed through an extensive network of licensing agreements globally. |
| Carmen Marc Valvo is an American designer who specializes in evening-wear and high-end cocktail dresses. He also has an eyewear collection, a lingerie collection, and a swimsuit collection. Valvo is best known for his tailored fit, form-fitting dresses, and friendliness towards full-figured women. Along the way, his designs have ended up on some of the World’s most talented and glamorous women. From HRH Princess Madeleine of Sweden, Queen Latifah, Beyonce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vanessa Williams, Eva Longoria, and Mary J. Blige just to name a few. | |
| Venezuelan aristocrat Carolina Herrera created her first collection in 1981. She expanded into bridal in 1987 and opened her flagship on Madison Avenue in 2000. Herrera founded a diffusion line, CH Carolina Herrera, in 2002, which includes fragrances, menswear, handbags, and shoes. The label is known for timeless ensembles for celebs who crave a touch of class. Tweedy skirt-suits, crisp white blouses, fitted jackets, prim cocktail frocks, and embellished evening gowns keep the glamorous label at the very top. |
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Catherine
Malandrino |
Catherine Malandrino has woven together the energy of Manhattan and the romance of Paris. Catherine Maladrino designs two lines, the designer Malandrino Collection and the contemporary Catherine Malandrino Collection. She also launched a collection of shoes and hand bags under her Malandrnio label, her first line of accessories. |
Celine |
Originally launched in 1945 as a children's made-to-measure shoe business for petits pieds d'anges, the French luxury house expanded during the sixties with adult footwear, handbags, and a women's ready-to-wear collection of couture sportswear or "fashion for everyone." During this time, Celine was one of the first luxury brands to open up distribution to Japan, and their focus on international expansion continued over the next few decades. |
Chloé |
Chloé is a French fashion house founded in 1952 by Gaby Aghion, a parisian of Egyptian origin. She and her partner, Jacques Lenoir, were among the first to become aware of the raising demand for collections that could merge the strict requirements of Haute Couture and those of Ready-to-Wear. Chloé headquarters are on avenue Percier in Paris. The regional offices are in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Dubai. |
| After Chanel No. 5 was launched in 1921, Coco Chanel's fashions became well-known and were purchased by the high flyers of London and Paris society alike. Chanel took to living at the Hôtel Ritz, and her suite of residence is named the Coco Chanel Suite even today. Chanel is also known for its quilted fabric which also has a "secret" quilting pattern sewn at the back to keep the material strong. This material is used for clothing and accessories alike. | |
| Christian Audigier, born in the city of Avignon, in the South of France, embodies and represents the pinnacle of success in achieving the American dream. He currently resides with his family in Los Angeles, California. His impressive list of accomplishments, shrewd business sense, and charismatic personality make him the global success that he is today in the fashion world. His most recent ventures include the Ed Hardy brand based on the work of Don Ed Hardy; Smet with Johnny Hallyday; and his own namesake Christian Audigier. | |
Christian Lacroix  |
Christian Lacroix designs clothes that are glamorous, expensive-looking, and unapologetically dramatic. Such an aesthetic implored fame on the French label, which eventually came to epitomize the eighties through the designer's use of sumptuous fabrics (velvet, satin, taffeta) and overlapping patterns (patchwork, stripes), all of which left buyers clamoring for more. His ready-to-wear, which now includes handbags, fragrance, and shoes, can be found in more than 1,000 international stores, including twenty of his own namesake boutiques, as well as on the bodies of adventurous red-carpet walkers. |
Christian
Louboutin |
Christian Louboutin was born in a working-class neighbourhood of Paris. While still a mere child, he discovered the city nightlife at The Palace, the legendary nightclub that opened in 1978, and was baptized into a world of high fashion and glamour. His passion for dancing and showgirls increasingly disrupted his schoolwork. He was just sixteen when he tried to sell his first designs to music hall dancers. Today Christian Louboutin is branching out; he has launched a line of handbags, which echo his shoe collection. They share a sense of creativity and high-end finish. |
Christian
Siriano |
Christian Siriano began designing at just 13 years old and attended the Baltimore School for the Arts and the American Intercontinental University in London, where he interned with punk legend Vivienne Westwood, and with Alexander McQueen. Upon returning to the United States and moving to New York City, Christian's big break came when he earned a spot on season four of Bravo's hit program Project Runway. Despite fierce competition, Christian became the show's youngest winner, fan favorite, and a rising star in the fashion world. Since winning, Christian has designed for a growing list of celebrity clients. |
| Citizens of Humanity, founded by Jerome Dahan, designs and globally distributes seasonal denim and fashion collections for women and men, including a women’s knit collection. Citizens of Humanity is featured in boutiques and department stores across the United States and in Canada. Internationally, Citizens is sold in over 35 countries, including the UK, Italy and France. | |
Coach |
During the last decade, Coach has emerged as America's preeminent designer, producer, and marketer of fine accessories and gifts for women and men including handbags, business cases, luggage and travel accessories, wallets, outerwear, eyewear, gloves, scarves and fine jewelry. Continued development of new categories has further established the signature style and distinctive identity of the Coach brand. Together with our licensing partners, we also offer watches, footwear, and office furniture bearing the Coach brand name. |
| 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 women's dress and casual footwear, belts, hosiery, handbags, gloves, scarves, hats, outerwear and sunglasses. A wholly owned subsidiary of Nike, Cole Haan has its headquarters in Yarmouth, Maine, and its design center in New York City, New York. | |
Custo Barcelona  |
Started by brothers Custo and David Dalmau in 1981, Custo Barcelona was born on a motorcycle trip across America. Inspired by the lax attitude of southern California, the pair returned to their native Barcelona and started a business crafting T-shirts for men and women with screen-prints and illustrations. Now the brand extends to everything from suits to swimwear, and it’s still the colors and prints that keep bringing customers back. The look is bold, bright, and psychedelic. |
| Derek Lam is an American fashion designer. He was born in San Francisco, California and is of Chinese American parentage. Lam is known for his pretty, girly fabrics backed by clean, crisp silhouettes. Signature pieces include raw silk sheath dresses with plunging necklines, wide-leg trousers in various wools and dainty cashmere pea coats cinched with stiff silk belts. | |
Devi Kroell  |
Key features of Devi Kroell's work - diverse design influences and a refined sense of versatility - give nod to her expansive cultural experience: Kroell spent her childhood in Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Israel, France and Italy among other locales. As a result, her signature styles are easily suited to a variety of backdrops and tastes. From her original python hobo bag to her crystal-studded wooden clutches and avant-garde heels, all of Kroell's impeccably crafted designs feature sleek, effortless shapes fused with lush, tactile elements. |
| Diane Von Fürstenberg is a fashion designer best known for her hallmark wrap dress. The word "iconic" is overused in fashion, but the silk jersey wrap dress genuinely is just that. When it arrived on the scene in 1972, it signaled the New Woman—the then-revolutionary concept of competing in a man's world while looking totally feminine—and within a couple of years it had landed its creator, Diane Von Furstenberg, on the cover of Newsweek. | |
| Diesel was founded in 1978 by Renzo Rosso and Adriano Goldschmied under the umbrella of the Genius Group. Rosso sold his shares in 1985 and took full control. Since then, the label has grown into a cult denim megabrand, expanding its scope to include fragrance, children’s clothing, womenswear, and youth apparel. The tough, street-smart aesthetic is complemented by elaborate ad campaigns, which range from political to kitschy to high glamour, and utilize the talents of photographers like Terry Richardson. | |
Dior |
Designer Christian Dior launched his first collection in 1947, setting Paris ablaze and establishing a leading brand in the culture of couture. Today, the Dior brand extends way beyond the world of ladies' couture. During the past 60 years, quality skincare and fragrance lines have been introduced, maintaining the brand's highbrow reputation, as well as Dior Homme, the menswear and fragrance lines. |
| DKNY is a modern, moderately-priced young collection, drawing from the spirit of big city life. Donna Karan is known to support the needs of modern women with her clothing. When designing her clothes, Donna Karan claims not have the top model in mind, but women like herself. The saying goes, that before the production of a piece of clothes is approved by Karan, it has to look good on her. It seems, that with Donna Karan clothing, function comes before styling. Also under the DKNY Jeans label. | |
Dolce
& Gabbana |
A
world made up of sensations, traditions, culture and a Mediterranean
nature. Domenico Dolce and Stefano
Gabbana have made a trademark
of their surnames which is known throughout the world, easily recognizable
thanks to its glamour and great versatility. Two Designers who have
known how to make a flag out of their Italian character. Two Designers
adored by the Hollywood stars who have made the duo their favorites:
two Designers who dress all of the rock stars of the moment and
who have elected them as their unquestionable leaders. |
| After co-designing Anne Klein for ten years, Donna Karan launched, in 1985, her own line with late husband Stephan Weiss. Based on a foundation of “Seven Easy Pieces,” Karan’s first collection included practical mix-and-match separates that accentuated a woman’s curves. Her name became synonymous with the New York look and created a trend-setting, all-black palette for ready-to-wear. She’s also credited with popularizing the bodysuit. | |
Dsquared2 |
Ohh Canada! Helmed by brothers Dean and Dan Caten, the Dsquared label combines outdoorsy details with a glam-rock aesthetic. The attire, and the denim in particular, is a favorite among musicians like Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, and Madonna, who asked the duo to create more than 150 pieces for her 2002 Drowned World Tour. The brothers opened their flagship store in Milan in 2007, complete with an exclusive Champagne bar, and subsequently launched locations in Capri, Kiev, Istanbul, and Hong Kong. |
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