PEOPLE KNOWN FOR: fashion design
American fashion designer
Bill Blass was an American designer who helped define the relaxed, pared-down elegance that would characterize American fashion in the late 20th century. Blass left home at age 17 to attend the Parsons...
American fashion designer
Rogan Gregory is an American fashion designer and sculptor known for his environmentally and socially conscious clothing lines. He was perhaps best known as the creative director (2005–07) of Edun. Gregory...
American artist
Nick Cave is an American artist best known for his wearable mixed-media constructions known as Soundsuits, which act simultaneously as fashion, sculpture, and noisemaking performance art. Cave began exploring...
American couturiere
Pauline Trigère was a French-born American couturiere whose award-winning design work was especially popular in the United States in the 1950s and ’60s. Trigère was the daughter of a tailor. She early...
Spanish-Italian multimedia artist [1871-1949]
Mariano Fortuny was a painter, inventor, photographer, and fashion designer best known for his dress and textile designs. Fortuny was the son of a Spanish genre painter, Mariano Fortuny. His father died...
Italian fashion designer
Emilio Pucci, marquis di Barsento was an Italian fashion designer and politician. Pucci, who came from a wealthy, aristocratic Florentine family, was educated for a diplomatic career. He earned a Ph.D....
British designer
Laura Ashley was a British designer known for her traditional, Victorian-style prints on natural fabrics, which she used to create household furnishings, linens, and women’s clothing. By the time of her...