Fashion

Designers and figures known for fashion.

People in Fashion

20 profiles

Fashion designer

Coco Chanel

Building Chanel and popularising a simpler style of women’s dress.

Fashion designer

Christian Dior

Introducing the New Look that reshaped postwar fashion.

Fashion designer

Giorgio Armani

Making softly structured tailoring a signature of modern fashion.

Fashion designer

Issey Miyake

Developing Pleats Please and experimental clothing that combines textile technology with freedom of movement.

Fashion designer

Yohji Yamamoto

Changing modern fashion with oversized black silhouettes and unconventional tailoring.

Fashion designer

Rei Kawakubo

Challenging conventional clothing through Comme des Garçons.

Fashion designer

Jole Veneziani

Helping establish postwar Italian high fashion.

Designer

Maria Monaci Gallenga

Creating metallic block-printed textiles.

Fashion designer

Mila Schön

Designing restrained Italian couture and ready-to-wear.

Fashion designer

Germana Marucelli

Bringing visual art into Italian couture

Fashion designer

Domenico Dolce

Co-founding the fashion house Dolce & Gabbana

Fashion designer

Emilio Cavallini

Patterned hosiery and seamless clothing

Fashion designer

Elio Fiorucci

Turning youthful pop culture into the Fiorucci fashion label.

Fashion designer

Gianfranco Ferré

Architectural approaches to fashion and his work at Christian Dior.

Fashion designer

Rosita Missoni

Cofounding Missoni and developing its colourful knitwear and interiors.

Fashion designer

Giuliana Camerino

Colourful velvet handbags for Roberta di Camerino.

Fashion designer

Roberto Capucci

Sculptural couture built around colour and volume.

Fashion designer

Nicola Trussardi

Turning a family glove business into an international fashion house.

Fashion designer

Irene Galitzine

Creating the palazzo pyjama evening silhouette.

Fashion designer

Walter Albini

Helping shape Italian ready-to-wear fashion.