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Rachel Roy   |
Rachel Roy's first job in fashion was at a Contempo Casuals clothing outlet in her hometown at age 14. After college, she came to New York City, where she worked as a stylist for magazines and music videos. Rachel Roy became an intern at the urban fashion line Rocawear, where she rose to become creative director of the women's and children's divisions and also met her future husband. In 2005 she launched her own eponymous fashion collection. In early 2006 Rachel Roy received a Bollywood industry award for her contribution to American fashion. |
rag & bone  |
Named after the English “rag and bone” man who collects unwanted items, Brit transplants Marcus Wainwright and David Neville formed their label in 2002 in New York because they couldn’t seem to find a decent pair of jeans. Rag & bone’s menswear launched on the runways first and the women’s a few seasons later. Today, with Wainwright as the designer and Neville handling the business end of things, the brand has grown to include children’s clothes, accessories, and shoes in its own West Village stand-alone shop. American workmanship and a British youth aesthetic help fuel this burgeoning lifestyle brand. |
Ralph
Lauren  |
While fashion trends come and go, Ralph Lauren has remained true to his original concept: selling not just preppy clothes but a lifestyle. It's earned him a personal fortune close to $1 billion and a place in design history. Not bad for a kid from the Bronx, New York, who wore tennis sweaters to school when everyone else was slouching around in leather jackets. |
Rebecca Taylor  |
In 1996, New Zealand–native designer Rebecca Taylor and her business partner, Elizabeth Bugdaycay, launched their own label in Taylor’s name. The feminine, kittenish collection with soft silhouettes and sophisticated detailing has established a strong presence both in New York and in Asia since its Gen Art debut in 1997. In addition to her whimsical blouses, pencil skirts, knits, and day dresses, the designer has added shoes, handbags, and jewelry to her commercially successful label. |
Reem Acra   |
Lebanese-born Reem Acra launched her eponymous bridal line in 1997 in New York. With detailed beadwork and embroidery, her romantic dresses soon earned a cult following among upmarket bridal shoppers. The brand has since expanded to include an evening-gown and RTW collection with an old-world feel and has shown up on the red carpet as a favorite of celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, and Halle Berry. |
Roberto
Cavalli  |
Cavalli's expansive fashion house includes men's and womenswear, children's, underwear and casual lines, as well as eyewear and timepieces. He has also introduced Roberto Cavalli casa, a line of fashion for the home. Today, Cavalli's unique creations adorn the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Sting, Alicia Keys and many other style-conscious celebrities and couture aficionados. |
Rocawear |
Rocawear is a clothing line created in 1999 by Jay-Z and Damon Dash. Rocawear expanded its brand through licensing agreements to develop lines for children and juniors; socks and sandals; leather, suede, and fur outerwear; handbags and belts; lounge wear; big and tall; headwear; jewelry; and sunglasses. In March 2007, Jay-Z sold the rights to the Rocawear brand to Iconix Brand Group. Jay-Z will retain his stake in the company and will continue to oversee the marketing, licensing, and product development. |
Rock & Republic  |
Andrea Bernholtz launched this leather and denim brand with designer Michael Ball in 2002. Amid a sea of blues, Rock & Republic has developed a cult following, becoming one of the most recognizable names in the jean-sphere. The brand has expanded with a full ready-to-wear collection, as well as beauty, eyewear, handbags, maternity, and shoe lines, and has plans for its first three freestanding stores in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and New York. |
Roger Vivier  |
Roger Vivier was a French fashion designer who specialized in shoes. His best known creation was the Stiletto heel. He designed extravagant richly-decorated shoes that he described as sculptures. He is credited with the design of the first stiletto heel in 1954. Stiletto heels were certainly around in the late 1800s as numerous fetish drawings attest, but Vivier is known for reviving and developing this opulent style by using a thin rod of steel. |
Salvatore
Ferragamo  |
Ferragamo was always recognized as a visionary, and his designs ranged from the strikingly bizarre objet d'art to the traditionally elegant, often serving as the main inspiration to other footwear designers of his time and beyond. Salvatore Ferragamo lives on as an international company, which has expanded its operations to include luxury shoes, bags, eyewear, silk accessories, watches, perfumes and a ready to wear clothing line. |
Sean John  |
In 1998, Sean Combs launched his clothing line for men. Sean Jean started as a street-smart solution to urban style—complete with the expected hoodies, hats, and T-shirts—but has grown to include pricey designer apparel like suits, outerwear, and lots of fur, along with a women’s line that debuted in 2003. Combs’s first scent, Unforgivable came out in 2006. For the most part, the collection manages to maintain street cred while earning the fashionista stamp of approval. In 2004, the conglomerate made a 50 percent investment in the Zac Posen label. |
Sonia Rykiel  |
Sonia Rykiel starting sewing stylish maternitywear for her pregnant self in the early 60's. Aside from window-dressing her father’s shops in her teens, Rykiel had no formal training. But she soon began designing knitwear with resources from her retailer husband’s business, creating the iconic, shrunken “poor boy” sweater. By 1968, Rykiel opened her own boutique. Today, her label encompasses lingerie, accessories, children’s clothing, menswear, and beauty, and is still a family-owned business—her daughter Nathalie is president and artistic director. |
Stella McCartney |
Stella McCartney launched her eponymous label in 2001 as a joint venture with Gucci Group. The brand’s luxury ready-to-wear, shoes, bags, fragrances, eyewear, accessories, organic skin care range and performance range with Adidas are available through its acclaimed flagship stores and around 600 luxury stores in key cities worldwide. |
St. John  |
St. John is an upscale, luxury American brand for formal wear, founded in 1962 by Robert and Marie Gray. Headquartered in Irvine, California, the brand has its collections and styles sold in specialty stores in 29 countries and 31 company-owned retail boutiques in the US. Beginning in Spring of 2006, Angelina Jolie became the new face and spokeswoman for St. John. |
Stuart Weitzman  |
Stuart Weitzman is the designer of the international, high-end shoe company, Stuart Weitzman. Stuart Weitzman's trademark use of unique materials (e.g., cork, vinyl, lucite, wallpaper, and 24-karat gold), and his attention to detail, garnered him and his company a global following. His shoes are sold in 45 countries. Weitzman began designing shoes for his father's business in the early 1960s, when he was in his 20s. They sold the business to a company in Spain in 1972, but Stuart continued to design shoes for the company. In 1994, he bought back the business, but continues to manufacture his shoe designs in Spain. |
Sweetface |
Hip-pop diva and movie star Jennifer Lopez added “designer” to her résumé when she formed the Sweetface Fashion Company in 2001. Co-run by Andy Hilfiger (Tommy's brother) and under the creative direction of Lopez, the brand includes the mass-oriented J.Lo juniors' line, spanning eleven different categories, from fragrances, clothing, and accessories to watches and shoes. With her typical no-holds-barred approach, in 2005, Lopez went on to introduce Sweetface, her higher-end collection of diva getups in the form of cashmere micro-shorts and huge floppy umbrella hats. |
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