“ Viktor and Rolf” is highly distinguished for their innovative and fresh designs that they launch every season, a brand created by Viktor Horsting and Rolf Noeren both were born in 1969, in Holland, both studied fashion in Antwerpen and…
Category: Haute Couture
Giovanni Maria “Gianni” Versace was born on December 2 in 1946, in Reggio Calabria, Italy, and grew up with his brother Santo Versace and sister Donatella Versace, at the age of 25 Versace moved to Milan. In 1978 Gianni Versace…
Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani better known as Valentino, an eponymous label that we all know if we are interested in fashion or even if you are not; Valentino Garavani was born on May 11 in 1932 in Voghera, Italy. Nowadays…
Iris van Herpen was born on June 5 in 1984, in Amsterdam (Holland), Iris studied at the Institute of the Arts Arnhem before getting a scholarship to work in Alexander McQueen’s studio in London, from which she inherited her taste…
Giorgio Armani was born on July 11, 1934, in Piacenza, Italy, he was raised with his older brother Sergio and younger sister Rosanna by his mother Maria Raimondi and his father Ugo Armani, he studied at the Liceo Scientifico Leonardo…
Adele Casagrande was born in 1897, she started designing at a very young age and in 1918, she opened her first leather and (secret) fur workshop on Via del Plebiscito in Rome, then she married Edoardo Fendi and changed the…
Elie Saab was born on July 4th, 1964 in Damour, Libano, as a Lebanese fashion designer, his main workshop is of course in Lebanon, with additional workshops in Milan and Paris. At the age of 9, he was very determined…
Azzedine Alaïa was born on February 26, 1935, in Jemmal, Tunisia. He was a Tunisian couturier and shoe designer, successful since the eighties. His parents were farmers, but his glamorous twin sister Hafida taught him to sew. Additionally, a French…
Stéphane Rolland was born in Paris and spent his childhood between Cannes and Nice, he is a fashion designer and a couturier, member of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, his mother worked at Pictorial Service,…
Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was born on September 10, 1890, in Rome, her mother, Maria-Luisa, was a Neapolitan aristocrat and her father, Celestino Schiaparelli, was an accomplished scholar with multiple areas of interest, her brother, the astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli discovered…