Sabyasachi Mukherjee

Sabyasachi Mukherjee (born 23 February 1974) is an Indian fashion designer, jewellery

designer,retailer and couturier from Kolkata, India. Since 1999, he has sold designer merchandise
using the label Sabyasachi. Mukherjee is one of the Associate Designer Members of Fashion Design
Council of India and the youngest board member of the National Museum of Indian Cinema.[1] He
has designed costumes for Bollywood films such as Guzaarish, Baabul, Laaga Chunari Mein Daag,
Raavan, and English Vinglish.

During the summer of 1999, Sabyasachi Mukerjee graduated from the National Institute of Fashion
Technology India. Four months later, he started his eponymous label which began with a workforce
of three people. In 2001, he won the Femina British Council’s most outstanding young Designer of
India award,[4] which took him to London for an internship with Georgina von Etzdorf, an eclectic
designer based in Salisbury. Returning home with ideas, Sabyasachi started retailing at all major
stores in India.

In 2002, Sabyasachi Mukerjee participated at the India Fashion Week which got positive feedbacks
from the press. During the spring of 2003, he made his first international runway, with the "Grand
Winner Award" at the Mercedes Benz New Asia Fashion week in Singapore, which paved his way to a
workshop in Paris by Jean Paul Gaultier and Azzedine Alaia. In his collection "Kora" at the Lakme
Fashion Week 2003, he used unbleached and hand woven fabrics with Kantha and other hand
embroideries.

Sabyasachi's design philosophy is "personalized imperfection of the human hand". Deserts, gypsies,
prostitutes, antique textiles and cultural traditions of his home town, Kolkata, have been a lifelong
inspiration for this designer who believes that "clothes should just be an extension of one's
intellect". He uses unusual fabrics, texturing and detailing, fusion of styles, patch-work with
embellishments in a vibrant colors. His creations evoke images of ancient and medieval ages. He
describes his own collections as "an International styling with an Indian soul".

He designs crafted bridal wear and rigorously structured pieces. On occasion, to the delight of his
global audiences, the designer is known to draw inspirations from the wider world, such as exotic,
indigenous ethnic European art such as the colourscapes of French impressionists like Monet and
Henry Matisse in his clothes.

He pioneered the use of high-end luxury Indian textiles in a modern context. His unique contribution
was the use of classical methods like bandhani, gotawork, block printing, hand dyeing etc. in
construction of modern silhouettes. Sabyasachi is especially famous for Indian Bridal Wear.
Calvin Klien
Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the
company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, he also has given
his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewellery.

Klein was born on November 19, 1942 to a Jewish family in the Bronx, the son of Flore (née Stern)
(1909–2006) and Leo Klein.[1][2] Leo had immigrated to New York from Hungary, while Flore was
born in the United States to immigrants from Galicia (Eastern Europe) and Buchenland, Austrian
Empire (modern day-Ukraine).[3][4]

Klein went to Isobel Rooney Middle School 80 (M.S.80) as a child. He attended the High School of Art
and Design in Manhattan and matriculated at, but never graduated from, New York's Fashion
Institute of Technology, receiving an honorary doctorate in 2003. He did his apprenticeship in 1962
at an old line cloak-and-suit manufacturer, Dan Millstein,[5] and spent five years designing at other
New York City shops. In 1968, he launched his first company with a childhood friend,[6] Barry K.
Schwartz.[6][7]

Klein was one of several design leaders raised in the Jewish immigrant community in the Bronx,
along with Robert Denning and Ralph Lauren. He became a protégé of Baron de Gunzburg,[7]
through whose introductions he became the toast of the New York elite fashion scene even before
he had his first mainstream success with the launch of his first jeans line. He was immediately
recognized for his talent after his first major showing at New York Fashion Week. He was hailed as
the new Yves Saint Laurent, and was noted for his clean lines.

Calvin Klein's unwavering vision of minimal designs and wearable urban styles are part of what make
him an icon: his widely recognized marketing genius is also part of the package.

Calvin Klein started out as a coat company and then moved to sportswear. Back in the late '70s, Klein
launched a designer jeans line, which not only broke down price barriers by offering a lower-priced
line but spawned sexy, controversial ads featuring teenage model Brooke Shields (and, later, actor
Mark Wahlberg).

Klein has also left his mark with some industry firsts, including making utilitarian men's underwear
sexy and the first unisex fragrance, CK One. An influence to many of the minimal-chic designers of
the late 20th century, including Miuccia Prada and Donna Karan, Calvin Klein remains one of the
most recognizable designer names in the world.

I've always had a clear design philosophy and point of view about being modern, sophisticated, sexy,
clean and minimal. They all apply to my design aesthetic. -- Calvin Klein in Women's Wear Daily.

Having initially focused on women’s coats and coordinates, Klein eventually branched out into
additional lady’s apparel that could be mixed and matched, cultivating a minimalist, streamlined look
that relied on sublime tailoring and fabric choices. Later in the decade he branched into menswear
and jeans, eventually becoming a major player in a denim market dominated then by the likes of
Gloria Vanderbilt, Jordache and Sasson. He hired fashion luminaries to help shape his vision, with
some crediting former Vogue editor Francis Stein as being the force behind articulating the
sensuality that Klein would become known for. By the 1980s, Klein’s brand was also known for
underwear and luxurious perfumes and colognes with corresponding ad campaigns. In the following
decade, the label branched out further into home apparel.
Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren was born in The Bronx, New York City,[4][5] to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants,
[6][7][8][9] Frieda (Cutler) and Frank Lifshitz , an artist and house painter,[10][11] from
Pinsk, Belarus.[12][13] He is the youngest of four siblings[14][15]—two brothers and one
sister.
Lauren attended day school followed by the Manhattan Talmudical Academy, before
eventually graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1957.[16] He went to Baruch
College, at the City University of New York (CUNY) where he studied business, although he
dropped out after two years.
Drawing on his interests in sports, Lauren named his first full line of menswear 'Polo' in 1968. He
worked out of a single "drawer" from a showroom in the Empire State Building and made deliveries
to stores himself.[19] By 1969, the Manhattan department store Bloomingdale's sold Lauren's men
line exclusively. It was the first time that Bloomingdale's had given a designer their own in-store
boutique.

In 1971, Ralph Lauren Corporation launched a line of tailored shirts for women, which introduced
the Polo player emblem to the world for the first time, appearing on the shirt's cuff. The first full
women's collection was launched the following year. In 1971 Lauren also opened a store on Rodeo
Drive in Beverly Hills, California; this was the first freestanding store for an American designer.[

Ralph Lauren opened his first flagship in the Rhinelander mansion, on Madison Avenue and 72nd
Street in New York City in 1986. Lauren re-created the building's original opulence with a young
design consultant named Naomi Leff, with whom he had previously worked on Ralph Lauren Home.
[23] The Polo Sport line was introduced in 1992 followed by over ten additional lines and acquired
brands, including Ralph Lauren Purple Label in 1995 and Lauren Ralph Lauren in 1996.

In 1970, Lauren was awarded the Coty Award for his men's designs. Following this recognition, he
released a line of women's suits tailored in a classic men's style. Then in 1972, Lauren released a
short-sleeve cotton shirt in 24 colors. This design, emblazoned with the company's famed logo—that
of a polo player, created by tennis pro René Lacoste—became the brand’s signature look.

Lauren is known for capitalizing on an aspirational style and key insignia which evokes the British
gentry while also referencing the aesthetics of the American upper class. His fashion ideas have been
criticized by some for not being particularly innovative while also embraced by scores of consumers
who prefer more approachable looks. Lauren subsequently broadened his brand to include a luxury
clothing line known as Ralph Lauren Purple, a rough and rustic line of apparel dubbed RRL, a home-
furnishing collection called Ralph Lauren Home and a set of fragrances. Polo currently produces
clothing for men, women and children and has hundreds of internationally placed stores, including
factory stores that produce the majority of his sales domestically.

Having initially focused on women’s coats and coordinates, Klein eventually branched out into
additional lady’s apparel that could be mixed and matched, cultivating a minimalist, streamlined look
that relied on sublime tailoring and fabric choices. Later in the decade he branched into menswear
and jeans, eventually becoming a major player in a denim market dominated then by the likes of
Gloria Vanderbilt, Jordache and Sasson. He hired fashion luminaries to help shape his vision, with
some crediting former Vogue editor Francis Stein as being the force behind articulating the
sensuality that Klein would become known for. By the 1980s, Klein’s brand was also known for
underwear and luxurious perfumes and colognes with corresponding ad campaigns. In the following
decade, the label branched out further into home apparel.

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen was a London-based, English fashion designer who was head designer of the
Louis Vuitton Givenchy fashion line, before starting his own line.

Lee Alexander McQueen was born on March 17, 1969, into a working-class family living in public
housing in London's Lewisham district. His father, Ronald, was a cab driver, and his mother, Joyce,
taught social science. On their small incomes, they supported McQueen and his five siblings.

At age 16, McQueen dropped out of school. He found work on Savile Row, a street in London's
Mayfair district famous for offering made-to-order men's suits. He worked first with the tailor shop
Anderson and Shephard, and then moved to nearby Gieves and Hawkes.

Deciding to further his clothes-making career, McQueen moved on from Savile Row and began
working with theatrical costume designers Angels and Bermans. The dramatic style of the clothing
he made there would become a signature of his later independent design work. McQueen then left
London for a short stint in Milan, where he worked as a design assistant to Italian fashion designer
Romeo Gigli.

Upon his return to London, McQueen enrolled at Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design, and
received his M.A. in fashion design in 1992. The collection he produced as the culminating project of
his degree was inspired by Jack the Ripper, and was famously bought in its entirety by the well-
known London stylist and eccentric Isabella Blow. She became a long-time friend of McQueen's, as
well as an advocate for his work.

Soon after obtaining his degree, McQueen started his own business designing clothes for women. He
met enormous success with the introduction of his "bumster" pants, so named because of their
extremely low-cut waistline. Only four years out of design school, McQueen was named Chief
Designer of Louis Vuitton-owned Givenchy, a French haute couture fashion house.

In 2000, Gucci bought a 51 percent stake in Alexander McQueen's private company, and provided
the capital for McQueen to expand his business. McQueen left Givenchy shortly thereafter. In 2003,
McQueen was declared International Designer of the Year by the Council of Fashion Designers of
America and a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by the Queen of
England, and won yet another British Designer of the Year honor. Meanwhile, McQueen opened
stores in New York, Milan, London, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. 

With the help of Gucci's investment, McQueen became more successful than ever. Already known
for the flair and passion of his shows, he produced even more interesting spectacles after leaving
Givenchy. For example, a hologram of model Kate Moss floated ethereally at the showing of his 2006
Fall/Winter line.

In 2007, the specter of death would come to haunt McQueen, first with the suicide of Isabella Blow.
The designer dedicated his 2008 Spring/Summer line to Blow, and said that her death "was the most
valuable thing I learnt in fashion." Just two years later, on February 2, 2010, McQueen's mother died.
One day before her funeral, on February 11, 2010, McQueen was found dead in his Mayfair, London
apartment. The cause of death was determined to be suicide.

McQueen's rise from lower-class high school dropout to internationally famous designer is a
remarkable story. His bold styles and fascinating shows inspired and wowed the world of fashion,
and his legacy lives on. Longtime co-designer Sarah Burton took over the still-operating Alexander
McQueen brand, and McQueen's contribution to fashion was honored by a 2011 exhibition of his
creations at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Vivienne Westwood

Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood helped set the style for modern punk and New Wave music.

Considered one of the most unconventional and outspoken fashion designers in the world, Vivienne
Westwood rose to fame in the late 1970s when her early designs helped shape the look of the punk
rock movement.

Born Vivienne Isabel Swire on April 8, 1941, in the English town of Glossop in Derbyshire, Westwood
came from humble beginnings. Her father was a cobbler, while her mother helped the family keep
ends meet by working at a local cotton mill.

Her first marriage dissolved and she met Malcolm Mclaren, an art student and future manager of the
Sex Pistols. With Mclaren, Westwood had a second son, Joseph. Through her new partner,
Westwood, who'd begun making jewelry on the side, was introduced to a new world of creative
freedom and the power art had on the political landscape. "I latched onto Malcolm as somebody
who opened doors for me," Westwood said. "I mean, he seemed to know everything I needed at the
time."

In 1971, Mclaren opened a boutique shop at 430 Kings Road in London and started filling it with
Westwood's designs. While the name of the shop seemed to be in constant flux — it was changed
five times — it proved to be an important fashion center for the punk movement. When Mclaren
became the manager of the Sex Pistols, it was Westwood's designs that dressed the band and help it
carve out its identity.

But as the punk movement faded, Westwood was hardly content to rest on her laurels. She's
constantly been ahead of the curve, not just influencing fashion, but often times dictating it. After
her run with the Sex Pistols, Westwood went an entirely new direction with her Pirate collection of
frilly shirts and other attire. Her styles have also included the mini-crini of the 1980s and the frayed
tulle and tweed suit of the 1990s. She's even proved it's perfectly possible to make a subversive
statement with underwear. "Vivienne's effect on other designers has been rather like a laxative,"
English designer Jasper Conran once explained. "Vivienne does, and others follow."

Coupled with Westwood's unconventional style sense, is an outspokenness and daring that
demonstrates a certain level of fearlessness about her and her work. In one famous incident, she
impersonated Margaret Thatcher on the cover of a British magazine. To do so, she wore a suit
Thatcher had ordered but not yet received, an act that made Thatcher irate.

Still, Westwood's influence is hard to deny. Twice she has been named British designer of the year
and was awarded the O.B.E. (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1992.

For more than 30 years, even after she had long made her fortune and fame, Westwood lived in the
same small South London apartment, paying just $400 a month for the home and riding her bike to
her studio in Battersea.

Valentino
Valentino Garavani is an Italian fashion designer best known as the founder of the Valentino SpA
company.

Fashion designer Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani was born on May 11, 1932, in Voghera,
Lombardy, Italy. He began working in the fashion industry at a young age, apprenticing under local
designers including his aunt Rosa. His formal training took place in Paris, at the École des Beaux-Arts
and the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. Valentino got his professional start as an
apprentice working in the salons of Jean Dessès and Guy Laroche.

Valentino left Paris in 1959 to open a fashion house in Rome. He modeled his business on the grand
houses he had seen in Paris. In his early shows, Valentino quickly gained recognition for his red
dresses, in a shade that became widely known as "Valentino red."

In 1960, Valentino met Giancarlo Giammetti in Rome. Giammetti, an architecture student, quickly
became Valentino's partner, both professionally and romantically. Together, the pair developed
Valentino SpA into an internationally recognized brand. Valentino's international debut took place in
1962, at the Pitti Palace in Florence. The show cemented the designer's reputation and attracted the
attention of socialites and aristocratic women from around the world. Within a few years,
Valentino's designs were considered the pinnacle of Italian couture. In 1967, he received the
prestigious Neiman Marcus Fashion Award. His client list included the Begum Aga Khan, Queen Paola
of Belgium and movie stars Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn.

Among Valentino's most prominent clients was Jacqueline Kennedy. Kennedy developed an interest
in the designer's work after admiring friends in several Valentino ensembles. In 1964, Kennedy
ordered six dresses in black and white, which she wore during the year following the assassination of
her husband, President John F. Kennedy. She would remain a friend and a client from that point on,
linking the Valentino name to her own iconic status in the fashion world. Valentino also designed the
dress that Kennedy wore when she wed Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis in 1968.

In 1998, Valentino and Giammetti sold their company for approximately $300 million to the Italian
conglomerate HdP. In 2002, HdP sold the Valentino brand to Marzotto Apparel. Valentino remained
actively involved with the company throughout these changes in ownership.
In 2007, Valentino announced that he would hold his final haute couture show in January of the
following year. This final show, presented at the Musée Rodin in Paris, featured legendary models
including Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Eva Herzigova, who had worked with Valentino
throughout their runway careers

Yohi Yamamoto

Yohji Yamamoto is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. Considered a master tailor
alongside those such as Madeleine Vionnet, he is known for his avant-garde tailoring featuring
Japanese design aesthetics.

Yamamoto has won notable awards for his contributions to fashion, including the
Chevalier/Officier/Commandeur of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Medal of Honor with Purple
Ribbon, the Ordre national du Mérite, the Royal Designer for Industry and the Master of Design
award by Fashion Group International.

Born in Tokyo, Yamamoto graduated from Keio University with a degree in law in 1966. He gave up a
prospective legal career to assist his mother in her dressmaking business, from where he learned his
tailoring skills. He further studied fashion design at Bunka Fashion College, getting a degree in 1969.

Yohji Yamamoto is widely regarded as ranking among the greatest fashion designers of the late
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is one of the few in his profession who have
successfully broken the boundaries between commodity and art, by creating clothing that ranges
from basics like athletic shoes and denim jeans to couture-inspired gowns that are nothing short of
malleable mobile sculptures. Lauded as a blend of master craftsman and philosophical dreamer,
Yamamoto has balanced the seemingly incompatible extremes of fashion's competing scales.

Inspiration from the intangible, mainly images of historical dress from sources such as photographs,
has been a mainstay in Yamamoto's work. The crumpled collar in an August Sander portrait, the
gauzy dresses captured by Jacques-Henri Lartigue while vacationing on the Riviera, and the gritty
realism of Françoise Huguier's travels among the Inuit of the Arctic Circle are but a few examples. It
is not surprising that the riveting catalogs created for each of Yamamoto's high-end ready-to-wear
women's collections have included the work of such notable photographers as Nick Knight, Paolo
Roversi, Inez van Lamsweerde, and Vinoodh Matadin. Whether Yamamoto is evoking historicism via
the ancien régime or the belle epoque, or ethnic garments made of richly woven silks and woolens,
he has come to epitomize the vast range of creative possibilities in the art of dress

From the moment Kawakubo and Yamamoto presented their first fashion collections to an
international audience in the 1980s, they were defined as Japanese designers. Virtually every article
about them as well as the critical reviews of their collections began by describing them as
inseparable from and encapsulated in their Asian heritage. Many journalists inaccurately assumed
that they produced clothing worn by all Japanese people. The reality was that the loose, dark-
colored, and seemingly tattered garments were as startling to the average Japanese as they were to
the Western audiences that first viewed them. Although Yamamoto's work changed and evolved
over the next two decades, it retained several key elements- the ambiguities of gender, the
importance of black, and the aesthetics of deconstruction.
Yamamoto's professed love of and respect for women has not been evident to many because his
clothes were often devoid of Western-style gender markers. He expressed an aversion to overtly
sexualized females, and often dressed women in designs inspired by men's wear. Such cross-gender
role-playing has long been a part of Japanese culture, and a persistent theme among performers and
artists for centuries. The fact that Yamamoto on more than one occasion chose women as models
for his menswear fashion shows was another small piece of his sexual identity puzzle.

No color in the fashion palette has been as important in the work of Yohji Yamamoto as black. This
early unrelenting black-on-black aesthetic earned his devotees the nickname karasuzoku, or
members of the crow tribe.

The connection between deconstruction, originally a French philosophical movement, and

contemporary fashion design has yet to be fully explored by fashion historians. There is no direct
evidence that such ideas were the motivating force in the early designs of Yohji Yamamoto. It is
more likely that he combined a mélange of influences: the devastation and rapid rebuilding of Japan
in the postwar era; the revolt against bourgeois tastes; an affiliation with European street styles; and
a desire, like that of the early proponents of abstraction in fine art, to find a universal expression of
design by erasing elements that assign people to specific socioeconomic and gender roles.

The initial impact of Yamamoto's designs began to diminish as the 1980s came to a close; the
designer fell into a self-professed decline for the next few years. By the mid-1990s, however,
Yamamoto experienced a resurgence of creativity rare in contemporary fashion. His output was
vastly different from his work of a decade earlier, in that it fully embraced the most lyrical and
fleeting elements of historical modes. His designs became a blend of street-style realism and
Victorian romanticism, reshaped and reconfigured for a contemporary audience. At both extremes,
Yamamoto retained his very personal vision-creating clothes for an ideal woman who, according to
the couturier, does not exist.

Perhaps the most potent quality that Yamamoto displayed was his brilliant ability to recontextualize
the familiar into wearable creations that came as close to works of art as any clothing designed in
the early 2000s.

Yamamoto continued to evolve in the early 2000s. His spring 2003 collection was not shown during
the Paris ready-to-wear fashion week in October of 2002, but instead during the haute couture
presentations earlier that year. Simultaneously, he became the designer for a new line of clothing
produced in conjunction with the Adidas sportswear company called Y's 3. This agreement came
about after Yamamoto first designed an astoundingly successful set of trainers, athletic shoes, and
sports shoes for Adidas in 2001.

Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld was born on 10 September 1938 to a wealthy family in Hamburg, Germany. He moved
to Paris in 1952 and first came to the attention of the fashion world two years later when he won a
competition prize for his design of a woolen coat. In 1954 he was hired as a design assistant by
Pierre Balmain, one of the premier couture houses of the early postwar period. In 1958 he parted
ways with Balmain and became art director at the House of Patou, where he remained until 1962.
For most of the next fifteen years he designed for a number of companies and under a variety of
contractual and freelance agreements.

Known for his bold designs and constant reinvention, he was hailed in Vogue as the "unparalleled
interpreter of the mood of the moment." Lagerfeld died in Paris on February 19, 2019.
He was associated especially with Chloë (1963-1983), where he created styles that simultaneously
were elegant and focused on the young. Many of his most striking designs for Chloë had an art deco
flavor, being very streamlined and body conscious. He also utilized prints to excellent effect. At the
same time, he worked as a freelance designer for Krizia, Valentino, Ballantyne, and other companies.
Beginning in 1965 he designed furs for Fendi. His ability to design simultaneously for several
different houses has been a defining characteristic of his career; Lagerfeld became known as a man
who was never content to do just one thing at a time.

Lagerfeld probably is most admired for his work at Chanel, where in 1982-1983 he took over
responsibility for a company that had become somnolent, if not moribund, and very quickly made it
exciting again. Taking the basic vocabulary established by Coco Chanel, he modernized it,
introducing new materials, including denim, and exaggerating such details as the "double C" logo.
Remarkably, his work for Chanel has remained as vital in the twenty-first century as it was in the
mid-1980s.

In 1975 Lagerfeld formed his own company and in 1983 became artistic director of the House of
Chanel. While continuing his responsibilities at Chanel and at Fendi, he formed Karl Lagerfeld S.A.
and KL to market his own ready-to-wear lines. Karl Lagerfeld S.A. was acquired by Dunhill (the parent
company of Chloë) in 1992, and Lagerfeld returned to Chloë at that time and held the post of chief
designer until 1997, when he was replaced by Stella McCartney. When he left Chloë, he regained
control of the company bearing his own name; in the early 2000s Lagerfeld was designing for Karl
Lagerfeld/KL, Chanel, and Fendi. He has also designed costumes for many films and theatrical
productions.

In 1984, which he built around the idea of what he described as "intellectual sexiness." Over the
years, the brand developed a reputation for quality tailoring with bold ready-to-wear pieces like
cardigan jackets in bright colors. In 2005 Lagerfeld sold the label to Tommy Hilfiger.

Manish Arora
As one of the most widely recognised Indian designers in the world, Manish Arora boasts a
dedicated following and significant critical acclaim from a host of influential industry insiders.
Inducted into the Chambre Syndicale du Prêt à Porter des Couturiers in 2009, Arora was also invited
by the French minister for culture to exhibit his work for two months in the windows of the Palais
Royal in Paris.

The celebrated designer, who oversees the production of three in-house labels alongside an
eyewear range, was appointed as creative director of French fashion house Paco Rabanne in early
2011. After presenting his inaugural collection for Spring/Summer 2012, Arora left the position in
May 2012 to focus on growing his own business and in November that same year announced a joint
venture arrangement with retailer Biba Apparel to extend the brand’s operations in India.

Manish Arora is considered by many as “the John Galliano of India”. He is inspired by Indian cultural
heritage, but he presents his designs with a modern and international twist. Many of his designs are
embellished with traditional Indian crafts, including appliqué, beadwork and embroidery.
In his own words: “Fashion, for me, is not just clothing; – it’s the whole character. I build these
fictitious characters in my mind right from the beginning of the collection. I make them up in my
mind and work towards that personality that doesn’t exist. It’s a fantasy character, but I imagine
what that person would be like, and that’s the end result that you see in the shows”.