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French Fashion Designers
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. Argentina * Sofia Achaval de Montaigu * Delia Cancela * Alan Faena * Franc Fernandez * Gustavo Cadile * Jazmín Chebar * Paco Jamandreu * Dalila Puzzovio * Elsa Serrano * Vanessa Seward * Aitor Throup * Pilar Zeta Armenia * Emin Bolbolian * Kevork Shadoyan Australia * Prue Acton * Peter Alexander * Yeojin Bae * Jenny Bannister * Nadia Bartel * Zara Bate * Lucas Bowers * Leigh Bowery * Linda Britten * Ray Brown * Sarah-Jane Clarke * Claudia Chan Shaw * Flora Cheong-Leen * Susien Chong * Christopher Chronis * Lorna Jane Clarkson * Kay Cohen * Wayne Cooper * Keri Craig-Lee * John Crittle * Liz Davenport * Rachel Dean * Collette Dinnigan * Leona Edmiston * Pip Edwards * Christopher Essex * Enid Gil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notability In Wikipedia
In the English Wikipedia, English version of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, notability is a criterion to determine whether a topic merits a separate Wikipedia article. It is described in the guideline "Wikipedia:Notability". In general, notability is an attempt to assess whether the topic has "gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time as evidenced by significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic". The notability guideline was introduced in 2006 and has since been subject to various controversies. History The language of the criterion was modified and adapted to produce notability guidance in specific subject areas, before being introduced into the proposed notability guideline in September 2006. In response to growing concerns in 2006 about issues specifically affecting biographies of living persons, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales introduced a notability criterion via the core policy of ". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Serrano
Elsa Romio de Serrano (13 July 1941-16 September 2020), commonly known as Elsa Serrano, was an Italian-born Argentine fashion designer. Biography Serrano was born as Elsa Romio in Corigliano Calabro, province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy on 13 July 1941, the daughter of Checchina Malavolta and Espedito Romio. At the age of fourteen, Romio arrived in Argentina on 7 December 1955 with her parents and nine siblings. Self-taught, Serrano did not carry out formal design studies; she started in fashion with a boutique that offered imported garments in the Belgrano neighborhood. In 1968, she began to design using her own style; for several years she designed four collections per season, haute couture and ready-to-wear. She later devoted herself exclusively to haute couture. In 1977, she organized the first show in her collection. In forty-five years of experience, Serrano's designs were used by several well-known people, highlighting the wedding dress of Claudia Villafañe who was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Bowery
Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 – 31 December 1994) was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, and fashion designer. Bowery was known for his flamboyant and outlandish costumes and makeup as well as his (sometimes controversial) performances. Based in London for much of his adult life, he was a significant model and muse for the English painter Lucian Freud. Bowery's friend and fellow performer Boy George said he saw Bowery's outrageous performances a number of times, and that it "never ceased to impress or revolt".Richardson, John. "Postscript; Leigh Bowery". ''The New Yorker''. 16 January 1995. Early life and early years in London Bowery was born and raised in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. From an early age, he studied music, played piano, and went on to study fashion and design at RMIT for a year. He moved to London in 1980: 'I was so itchy to see new things and to see the world, that I just left', he said in 1987. There he became part of the New Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ericaamerica
ericaamerica is an Australian Menswear label started by Erica Wardle and Lucas Bowers in 2001. ericaamerica is known for its sharp technical cuts, historical references and "unorthodox blend of sheer cheek and arch elegance" which has been referred to, by critics, as "uber masculine". Education and career Designers Erica Wardle and Lucas Bowers were trained in costuming, bespoke millinery and fine arts respectively and bring to their clothing a background in theatrical costuming, dance costuming and a variety of other art practices. Erica Wardle studied costume and millinery at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAPAA) and worked with performance groups Chrissie Parrot Dance Company and Skadada early in her career, opening her first store as a fashion designer at the age of 19. Lucas Bowers studied painting at the Curtin University School of Art and worked as a graphic designer before moving into fashion. The pair established ericaamerica in 2001, winning the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zara Bate
Dame Zara Kate Bate (; previously Fell and Holt; 10 March 190914 June 1989) was an Australian fashion entrepreneur. She was best known as the wife of Harold Holt, who was prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance in 1967. Early life Bate was born Zara Kate Dickins on 10 March 1909 at her parents' home in Kew, Victoria. She was the second of four children born to Violet () and Sydney Dickins. She was of Irish and Scottish descent, her mother being born in Scotland. Bate's father was a successful businessman. The family owned a Grégoire motorcar and employed a cook, parlour maid and governess. She was educated at home until about the age of 10, which she "remembered with distaste" and "remained convinced that such an education was a poor preparation for school and life". In 1919, Bate began attending Ruyton Girls' School. She left school in 1925 at the age of 16, after completing her final year of secondary education at Toorak College. She was first introd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Bartel
Nadia Bartel (née Coppolino, born 1985) is an Australian model and clothes designer. She is the former wife of retired AFL footballer Jimmy Bartel. Bartel developed a clothing brand with her sister and another business partner. Inspired by minimalist Scandinavian style, it is called ''Henne'', which means "her" in Swedish. In 2020, Bartel developed a line of tracksuits in earthy colours which became a fashion hit. She began dating Jimmy Bartel in 2008, and married him on the Bellarine Peninsula The Bellarine Peninsula (Wathawurrung: ''Balla-wein'' or ''Biteyong'') is a peninsula located south-west of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, surrounded by Port Phillip, Corio Bay and Bass Strait. The peninsula, together with the Mornington Peni ... in 2014. The couple's first child was born in 2015, and a second son was born in 2018. The couple announced their separation in August 2019. Their divorce was finalised in August 2021. In September 2021, a viral video circulated of Barte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Bannister
Jenny Bannister is an Australians, Australian fashion designer, based in Melbourne. Early life Bannister was born in 1954 in Mildura, Victoria to parents Owen and Peg. As a teenager she moved to Melbourne with her sister Wendy. Bannister studied Fashion Design and Production at RMIT University, RMIT's Emily McPherson College, graduating in 1974. After graduation, she worked at fashion boutiques on Melbourne's Chapel Street, Melbourne, Chapel Street before starting her own fashion label. Career In 1976, Bannister launched her own labelJenny Bannister Fashion in Melbourne. The Bannister label began at the height of the 1970s radical fashion movement, and later evolved into haute couture, couture and up-market boutique styles. During the 1980s Bannister's work showed in events held by the Fashion Design Council, an organisation that supported emerging and alternative fashion. In 1988, Bannister successfully shifted into contemporary formal wear, evening wear, to which she now has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeojin Bae
Yeojin Bae is a South Korean-born Australian women's wear fashion designer. Early life Bae was born in 1975 in Seoul, and moved to Sydney in 1980. In an interview in 2010, Bae said that she had dreams of being a fashion designer from a young age, with her grandfather and both her parents being involved within the fashion industry. From the age of four, Bae began to attend art school. At age 15, she was the youngest student attending the Melbourne Whitehouse Institute of Design, graduating at the age of 17. Career Bae had internships in New York with Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui. Bae won the 2007 Tiffany & Co Young Designer of the Year Award and in 2009 was nominated for the Prix de ''Marie Claire'' Designer of the Year Award. She has achieved international recognition through having her collections sold in the US, UK and UAE. Stockists have included Barneys and Henri Bendel of New York, Matches in London, Sace and Harvey Nichols in Dubai, and Satine. In Australia, her collectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Alexander (fashion Designer)
Peter Alexander (born 1965) is an Australian fashion designer known for pyjamas, loungewear and giftware. Early life Peter Alexander was born in 1965 in Australia. Alexander worked from his mother's dining room table during the early days of the Peter Alexander brand. He initially sold directly to department stores. When a store cancelled an order for 2,000 pairs of pyjamas in 1990, in desperation, he took out a mail order advertisement in ''Cleo'' magazine. Alexander received 6,000 orders from that one advertisement alone. Peter Alexander the brand In 2000, Peter Alexander joined Australian retailer Just Group, effectively selling his business although remaining creative director within the structure of the Just Group. After the sale, the brand Peter's PJs increased in popularity and the first stand-alone store was opened in Melbourne Central Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, shortly followed by Chadstone. He has since expanded the stores into every state of Australia. Pete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prue Acton
Prue Acton, OBE (born 26 April 1943) is an Australian fashion designer, often referred to as "Australia's golden girl of fashion" during the 1960s. Early life Prudence Leigh Acton was born in Benalla, Victoria and educated at Firbank Anglican Girls' Grammar School in Melbourne. Between 1958 and 1962 she completed a Diploma of Art majoring in Printed Textiles at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She married Michael Charles Treloar in 1966. On 19 September 1966 they had their first child, Tiffany Leigh Treloar and, a few years later, they had their second child, Atlanta Pricilla Treloar. Career In 1963 Acton established her own fashion design business in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and by age 21 she was turning over 350 designs a year and selling an average of 1,000 dresses a week through 80 outlets in Australia and New Zealand. As her fashion business took off, Acton also began to develop her own range of cosmetics to complement the range. In 1967, she became the first Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevork Shadoyan
Kevork Shadoyan ( hy, Գևորգ Շադոյան; Arabic: كيفورك شادويان; born 14 February 1974) is a Syrian/Armenian fashion designer. His main workshop is in Yerevan, Armenia. Early life Shadoyan was born in 1974 in Aleppo, Syria to an Armenian family. Kevork's father was a tailor in Aleppo and the young man fell in love with working with clothing in his teenage years. He had his own designer school in Aleppo. Kevork was very well known in the area and was even once invited to Saudi Arabia to design the dowry clothes for one of the princesses there. For four months, together with forty Indian workers, he designed and made almost forty dresses for her. After schooling and practice he decided to bring his workmanship to the homeland and settled down in Armenia. Kevork always wanted to come to Armenia to learn the history and create traditional Armenian clothes. He finally moved in 2001, and he studied at the National Academy of Arts and has been living in Armenia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SINOIAN
SINOIAN is an Armenian fashion brand established in Germany in 2013. It is the first and only brand of its kind focussing on creating high-end ready-to-wear fashion based on Armenian design elements.Wuppertaler Mode punktet in Wien . June 7, 2015. Retrieved December 14, 2015. Notable celebrities who have worn SINOIAN clothing in public or got to know the brand include , |
