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This is a list of notable fashion designers sorted by nationality. It includes designers of haute couture and ready-to-wear. For haute couture only, see the list of grands couturiers. For footwear designers, see the list of footwear designers.
Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni maˈriːa ˈdʒanni verˈsaːtʃe]; [a] 2 December 1946 – 15 July 1997) was an Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessman. He was the founder of Versace, an international luxury-fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings and clothes. He also ...
Karl Otto Lagerfeld [1] was born in Hamburg on 10 September 1933 to Elisabeth (née Bahlmann) and Otto Lagerfeld.His father, coming from a family of wealthy wine-merchants, was a prosperous businessman and polyglot, speaking nine languages; [7] [8] his father owned an import company (Lagerfeld & Co.) specialising in evaporated milk, leading him to work with the American dairy company Carnation.
Christian Ernest Dior (French: [kʁistjɑ̃ djɔʁ]; 21 January 1905 – 24 October 1957) was a French fashion designer and founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, Christian Dior SE. His fashion house is known all around the world, having gained prominence "on five continents in only a decade." [2]
In 2005, in an effort to design for the "average Joe", Cuevas worked with his son Manny Jr. to create a men's and women's luxury, ready-to-wear clothing line featured at New York Fashion Week in 2006. The limited-piece collection was manufactured in Italy and was the first and only time that Cuevas produced any clothing outside of the United ...
Thomas Jacob Hilfiger (/ h ɪ l ˈ f ɪ ɡ ər / hil-FIG-ər; born March 24, 1951) [1] is an American fashion designer and the founder of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. [2]After starting his career by co-founding a chain of jeans/fashion stores called People's Place in upstate New York in the 1970s, he began designing preppy clothing for his own eponymous menswear line in the 1980s.
Robert Gordon Mackie (born March 24, 1939) [1] is an American fashion designer and costumier, best known for his dressing of entertainment icons such as Ann-Margret, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Diahann Carroll, Carol Channing, Cher, Miley Cyrus, Doris Day, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Eden, Lola Falana, Farrah Fawcett, Judy Garland, Mitzi Gaynor, Elton John, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bette Midler ...
Stella Nina McCartney CBE (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer.She is a daughter of British singer-songwriter Paul McCartney and the American photographer and animals rights activist Linda McCartney. [1]