Inspiration: For Women Only
Todays newsletter from Stella McCartney offers a new selection of clothing to buy online. Take a look at these three beautiful creations…
Multicolour Botanical Forsythia Trench Coat
Multi botanical trench coat with statement all over print. Double breasted with white buttons on front. Split at back with shoulder epaulettes and belt detail cuffs. An ultra modern statement [...]
Tom Ford was born in Austin, Texas in 1962, but spent most of his childhood years in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Tom Ford enrolled on an art history course at New York University and was also trained as an actor. It was there he discovered the seminal Studio 54 nightclub and Warhol’s Factory, where he met [...]
Yves Saint Laurent was born in 1936 in Algeria and died in June 2008.
Having won the first prize in the International Wool Secretariat contest in 1954, he went to work for Christian Dior as a young designer.
After Diors death in 1957, Saint Laurent became Haute Couture designer. The following year saw him win the Neiman-Marcus [...]
Yohji Yamamoto was born in Toyko in 1943 and graduated from Keio University in 1966 with a degree in law.
He went on to study fashion at the Bunka Fashion College obtaining a degree in Fashion in 1969.
In 1981 he entered the international scene presenting in Paris, then New York in 1982.
Yamamoto’s various awards and recognitions [...]
Vivienne Westwood was 30 years old when she opened her first boutique in 1971. Her designs have stunned the world since.
The hippie movement was still the fashion look of late 1960s London, but this did not inspire Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren. They were more interested in rebellion and in particular 1950s clothing, [...]
“I’ve always said that I would like to mix rock and simplicity because this is fashion, they are the extremes,” – Gianni Versace.
Versace was founded in Italy by Gianni Versace in 1978.
He opened his first boutique in Milan’s Via della Spiga in 1978, and it became an immediate success. Today, Versace is one of the [...]
Valentin Yudashkin is a Russian fashion designer who in 2009 became the first Russian designer to be accepted to the Syndicate of High Fashion in Paris.
His first collection was created in 1987, and he has since created more than 40 collections.
His collections are exhibited in the Louvre Museum, the California Museum of Fashion [...]
Torrente is owned by Rose Mett, sister of the designer Ted Lapidus. In 1968 she opened her first boutique in Saint Honore Paris. She immediately found success with simple clothes – mainly suits and coats.
Because of her obvious talent, she was able to persuade an entire Balenciaga workshop to follow her. Suddenly, an astonishing ‘A [...]
Thierry Mugler was born in 1948 in Strasbourg. At age 14 he had joined the Ballet of the National Rhine Opera where he danced for 6 years.
By 1969 he left home to travel and by 1971 he had created his first personal collection called “Café de Paris”. In 1974 he created the label Thierry Mugler.
In [...]
Born in 1955, North London, Raymond Stuart Kelvin founded the Ted Baker Brand in 1988, when he opened up a men’s shirt shop called Ted Baker in Glasgow.
He has continued to expand his business and Ted Baker is now a worldwide brand.
Unlike countless other designers, Ray prefers to scale down his own profile in [...]
