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Author: ManesntailsWhat Is Fashion Design? Fashion design is a form of art dedicated to the creation of clothing and other lifestyle accessories. Modern fashion design is divided into two basic categories: haute couture and ready-to-wear. The haute couture collection is dedicated to certain customers and is custom sized to fit these customers exactly. In order to qualify as a haute couture house,

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Author: Omar EjazYou know you're destined to be a fashion designer if you: a) spent most of your childhood making clothes for your Barbie dolls instead of playing with your friends; b) read fashion magazines instead of your school books; c) ran a boutique out of your basement at age 10. In other words: if you want to be the next Yves Saint Laurent, it helps to be completely and utterly obsessed

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Fashion but is originally from the 1986 Mode en France documentary which covers a lot of 80's fashion.Indian Wedding Customs

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Famous pin-up girlsA no-frills fashion show for our Introduction To Indian Culture & Customs National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological Univeristy general elective.

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Moving Brands designed, developed and built the London College of Fashion's stand at the 2006 Graduate fashion week. The proposal for the stand was centered around an 8 metre long, interactive table showcasing the work of nearly 200 students. Each student was assigned a cube holding their personal details and up to 5 pieces of work each. The cubes could then be rotated individually or in groups

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Fashion Design Degree Video

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Soho shopping for unique vintage clothing

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New Fashion

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The term "Victorian fashion" refers to fashion in clothing in the Victorian era, or the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). It is strictly used only with regard to the United Kingdom and its colonies, but is often used loosely to refer to Western fashions of the period. It may also refer to a supposedly unified style in clothing, home décor, manners, and morals, or a culture, said to be

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Lolita fashion is based much of his inspiration from rococo, Victorian and Edwardian fashion, and often tries to imitate the look of Victorian porcelain dolls. Gothic Lolita is applied aesthetics of the Gothic fashion to the child, very fashionable Lolita. The word comes Gothloli, naturally, a combination of fashion and Gothic Lolita .Gothic Lolita is the best known of the various "Lolita" sees.

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Ethnically a Polish Jew, Sonia Rykiel was born in Paris, France in 1930. At the age of 17, she was employed to dress the window displays in a Parisian textile store. Sonia was married to the owner of a boutique which sold elegant clothing. In 1962 she just couldn't find any soft sweaters to wear when she was pregnant. So she used a supplier to her husband from Venice to design her own.In 1980 she

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Kenzo love for fashion developed at an early age, especially through reading her sisters' magazines. He just attended the University of Kobe, where it was boring and eventually withdrew, against the wishes of his family. In 1958, she joined the school of fashion, Tokyo Bunka Fashion College, which then had only opened its doors to male students. mAfter obtaining his diploma, he settled in Paris

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Trends in fashion also was glamorous day many men she knew during her time as a world-famous cover girl (including a time as the face of Yardley of London). She was once at the age of 60 engaged photographer David Bailey, whom the character of David Hemmings in the film was based Blowup. They met in a shooting by an announcement of Cornflakes. His friend told him that it was too smart for him,

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He studied art in Hamburg and then moved to Florence, where he was discovered at age 20 by the photographer Ugo Mulas and became a full-time model. Then the models are not considered desirable height in Paris, but there she met Eileen Ford, head of the prestigious Ford Modeling agency. In 1961, he moved to New York City, but she did not score reservations. To highlight, he returned to Munich and

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In 1966, Nigel Davies noticed the young Lesley Hornby and offered her a modeling contract. He was only 16 and weighed 6 ½ stone (41 kg, 90 pounds). Davies advised her to go by his nickname of children, Twiggy, and changed his own name Justin Villeneuve. After sweeping the UK as "The Face del'66" when her modeling pictures, taken by Barry Lategan, became public, Twiggy arrived in New York in

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Cassini studied art under Giorgio de Chirico and eventually gravitated to the career of her mother, fashion, when he took a job to draw the French couturier Jean Patou. In late 1930, he worked as an assistant to the costume designer Edith Head, and in early 1940 he was hired by Paramount Pictures. Among the films Cassini was clothing Shanghai Gesture, a film of 1941 by Josef Von Sternberg, star

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Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisJacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was the wife of John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1961 until her husband's assassination in 1963. She was married to Aristotle Onassis from 1968 until his death in 1975. In later years she had a successful career as a book editor. She preferred her

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Givenchy is a French brand of clothing, accessories, perfumes and cosmetics with Parfums Givenchy.It was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy, who retired in 1995. John Galliano succeeded him as designer, but he was later replaced by Alexander McQueen. In 2001, designer Julien McDonald was appointed Artistic Director for the women's lines, while in 2003 Ozwald Boateng was appointed the

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Paco Rabanne (Rabaneda Francisco Cuervo was born on February 18, 1934 in San Sebastian (in Donostia basque) in the Spanish Basque Country) is a fashion designer. Spain fled to France with her mother when the Spanish Civil War broke out. He was originally an architect of education, but it became known as the enfant terrible of French fashion world in the 1960's.Rabanne began his career in the

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The exhibition encouraged him to create and sell clothing for women, and he opened a couture house in 1950 on the Isle of Capri and also expanded with a sewing place in Rome. Pucci was known for his signature use of bright colors, bold patterns and striking designs. People's beginnings were creations of a line of wrinkle free printed silk dresses. In the mid 50's, Pucci was awarded

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James Galanos 1925 - is a fashion designer of America, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its clients have included such celebrities as actress Diana Ross and Rosalind Russell. His most famous client is Nancy Reagan, wife of former President Ronald Reagan, for whom he designed the dress gala opening. His work is characterized by a demanding craft, notably in the extensive use of hand drops,

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Rudi Gernreich (8 August 1922-21 April 1985) was a fashion designer and gay activist. Born in Vienna, Austria fled at the age of 16 due to Nazism. He came to the United States, the settlement in Los Angeles, California. For a while, he had a career as a dancer, performing with the Lester Horton company around 1945. She moved in fashion design through fabric design, and then worked closely with

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Born to Italian parents who had fled to France from Brindisi because of the fascist Italian government. As a young boy, Emanuel Ungaro took to sewing like his father, Cosimo.At the age of 22, he moved to Paris and three years later, he began designing for the House of Cristobal Balenciaga for three years before quitting to work for Courrèges. Four years later, in 1965 with the assistance of Swiss

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In 1962, following his nervous breakdown, Saint Laurent was released from Dior and started his own label, YSL, funded by his companion, Pierre Bergé. The romantic couple split in 1976 but remained business partners. During the years 1960 and 1970, the company popularized fashion trends, as the beatnik look, safari jackets for men and women, tight pants and high boots thigh-high, including

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André Courrèges (born 1923) is a French fashion designer, known for his ultra-modern designs. Born in 1923 in Pau. At the age of 25, after studying to be a civil engineer, he went to Paris to work in fashion design Geanne Lafaurie home. A few months later he went over Balenciaga, the renowned Spanish designer. Courrèges, "the lord of the skirt, gave women the freedom of body and comfortable

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He moved to Paris in 1945. There, he studied architecture and worked with Paquin after the war. Work with Schiaparelli continued until he became the head of Christian Dior tailleure workshop in 1947, but was denied work at Balenciaga. He founded hisown house in 1950 and began with haute couture in 1953. Cardin was the first couturier to turn to Japan as a market for high fashion when he went

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Barbara Hulanicki (born 1936) is a Warsaw-born fashion designer, known as the founder of the iconic Biba clothes store. Born in Warsaw, to Polish parents, after studying at Brighton Art College, Hulanicki won a London Evening Standard competition for beachwear in 1955. She began her career in fashion as a freelance fashion illustrator, working for various magazines, including Vogue, Tatler and

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Travis Banton (August 18, 1894 - February 2, 1958) was the chief designer at Paramount Pictures. He is considered one of the most important Hollywood costume designers of the 1930s. He was born in Waco, Texas. Travis moved to New York City as a child. Banton was educated at Columbia University and at the Art Students League where he studied art and fashion design. An early apprenticeship with a

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Jean Louis (born Jean Louis Berthauldt, October 5, 1907, Paris, France - April 20, 1997, Palm Springs, California, USA) was a French costume designer and multiple Academy Award nominee in Costume Design. His most famous works include Rita Hayworth's black satin strapless dress from Gilda (1946), Marlene Dietrich's celebrated stagewear on her cabaret world tours, as well as the sheer, sparkling

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William Travilla (22 March 1920 - 2 November 1990), who invariably went by the professional name of Travilla, was an American costume designer in films. He is perhaps best-known for dressing Marilyn Monroe in eight of her films.Travilla first came to Hollywood in 1941. After work on several B movies, he earned an Oscar in 1949 for the Errol Flynn swashbuckler Adventures of Don Juan. This led to

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Orry-Kelly was the professional name of John Orry Kelly (December 31, 1897 - February 27, 1964), a prolific Hollywood costume designer.Born in Kiama, New South Wales in Australia, he grew up to study art there, becoming a tailor's apprentice and window dresser in Sydney. He journeyed to New York to pursue an acting career. He shared an apartment there with Charlie Spangles and Cary Grant. A job

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During his long career he was nominated for 35 Academy Awards, including every year from 1948 through 1966, and won eight times, more Oscars than any other woman has won. She was responsible for some of the best-known images of the Hollywood fashion of the day, with their costumes used to be the most glamorous and famous actresses in the movies seen by millions of people. Head of the influence on

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Brioni was founded in 1945 by master tailor Nazareno Fonticoli and fashion designer Gaetano Savini, in Italy. They opened their first suit shop in Rome's central Via Barberini after the close of World War II. The company was named "Brioni" after the resort on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.Brioni's first fashion show was held in 1952 at the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. The show gained the company

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Teddy Boys made it acceptable for young people to care about what one looked like all the time and dress purely for show, instead of just having one's work or school clothes or Sunday best. This trend arose as young people's disposable income increased during the post-war years. Teddy Boy clothing consisted of: long drape jackets, usually in dark shades, sometimes with velvet trim collar and

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Claudio Alexandre Pierre Balmain (b. St. Jean de Maurienne, France, May 18, 1914 - Paris, France, June 29, 1982) was a French fashion designer. Known for sophistication and elegance, said that "architecture is the garment manufacturing of movement." Balmain's father, who died when the future designer was 7 years old, was the owner of a wholesale business curtains. His mother and her sisters

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Impressed by the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, Givenchy couple decided that I wanted to work in fashion design. " He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. His first designs were made by Jacques Fath in 1945, a partnership that came through family members who knew personally Fatah. Later he did designs for Lucien Lelong (1946) - working alongside the still unknown Pierre Balmain, Christian

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Cristóbal Balenciaga Eisaguirre (b. January 21, 1885, Spain; d. March 23, 1972, Spain) was a Spanish fashion designer and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house. Balenciaga was born in Getaria, a fishing town in the province of Gipuzkoa, Spain, on January 21, 1885. His mother was a seamstress, and as a child Balenciaga often spent time with her as she worked. At the age of twelve, he began

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After working briefly in T.M. And JM Fox, a well-known concern of clothing in Manhattan that was owned by her mother, the snow was working as a fashion editor at American Vogue in 1921 and joined Harper's Bazaar 11 years later. She famously described his goal in the last publication as creating a magazine for "well-dressed women with well-dressed mind." His influence, both in magazines went far

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Since its debut in 1867 as America's first fashion magazine, the pages of Harper's Bazaar, first called Harper's Bazar, has been home to talent such as: fashion editors including Carmel Snow, Carrie Donovan, Diana Vreeland, Liz Tilberis, Alexey Brodovich, photography from Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Man Ray, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, Inez Van Lamsweerde and Patrick Demarchelier,

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The Zoot Suit first gained popularity in Harlem jazz culture in the late 1930s where they were initially called "drapes". The word "zoot", according to the Oxford English Dictionary, probably comes from a reduplication of the word 'suit'. It was probably first coined by Mexican American pachucos as part of their slang, "Caló", evolving from the Mexican Spanish pronunciation of the English word "

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Anne Klein (August 3, 1923 - March 19, 1974) was an American fashion designer whose label was continued by designer Donna Karan after Anne Klein's death.Anne Klein was born as Hannah Golofski in New York City on August 3, 1923. Beginning as a sketcher she later rose to prominence as a designer of womens sportswear and apparel, establishing Anne Klein and Co. in 1968. At just 50 years old, Anne

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Claire McCardell (1905-1958) was a fashion designer of America. His clothes were functional with clean lines and an American look. She is known for her recapitulation of the entire racks of recapitulation monastic arounds dresses, pajamas harem, and large pockets with seams up. She began her career as a designer, under the supervision of Robert Turk. When he died in an accident in the early 1930,

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Bonnie Cashin (1908 - 2000) is considered one of the most important pioneers of the design prêt-à-porter, more commonly known sportswear in the United States. Among the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful designers of the 20 century, Cashin was revered for their intellectual, artistic and independent approach to fashion. Treatment of clothing as a collage or kinetic art,

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Vera Maxwell Huppe (b. April 22, 1901, New York - d. January 15, 1995, Rincon, Puerto Rico) is a legendary designer sportswear and fashion, until his retirement in 1985.She was the first American designer to make materials Ultrasuede. She won the Coty American Fashion Critics' Award in 1953, the Neiman Marcus Award in 1955 and was honored in 1970 with a retrospective exhibition at the Smithsonian

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Hermès One of the most recognized is the silk scarf. The first Hermes silk scarf square in the collection was produced in 1928 and in 1937 with a tissue factory was established in Lyon. The modern Hermès scarf measures 90cm square, weighs 65 grams and is woven of 250 mulberry silk moth cocoons. The cost per pound of a handkerchief today is approximately $ 1965.00 (compared to a pound of steel at

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A bouffant is a type of hair combed characterized by high piled in the head and hanging on the sides. This is a haircut in the mainstream mid - to-late 17 century in Western Europe. In modern times, bouffant was popular in western culture in the 1960's, when it was created with the help of back-hair and large quantities of hair spray. A bouffant cap (they look like the haircut) is a kind of lid

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Mariano Fortuny and Madrazo (May 11, 1871 - May 3, 1949), the son of Mariano Fortuny and Marsal. Spanish fashion designer, opened her couture house in 1906 and continued until 1946. Fortuny was born to a family already in Grenada artistic Spain. His father, a painter of genre, Fortuny died when he was three years old and her mother, the family moved to Paris, France .. It soon became apparent at

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Jacques Doucet (1853 - 1929) was a French fashion designer, known for his elegant clothes, made with translucent material overlaying flimy in pastel colours. He was born in Paris in 1853 to a prosperous family whose fine lingerie and underwear business, Clothes Doucet had flourushed on the Rue de la Paix since 1816. In 1871, Doucet opened a salon sale of ladies garments. An enthusiastic

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Born in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, Worth made his mark in the French fashion industry. He worked at several prosperous London drapery shops before moving to Paris in 1846. He was hired by Gagelin and Opigez, well-known Parisian drapers. While working in their shop, he married one of the firm's models, Marie Vernet. Marie would model shawls and bonnets for prospective customers. Worth made a

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