Hailed as 'the most influential female designer of the twentieth century', Coco Chanel pioneered classic easy/to/wear fashion for the modern woman. She arrived on the fashion scene when feathers, lace
In 1947, Christian Dior stunned the fashion world with his first collection; his 'New Look' featured designs that transformed the way women dressed. Dior continued to send shockwaves with his later sh
Alexander (Lee) McQueen was / for the 15 years that he stood at its helm / British fashion's most significant figure. His extraordinary career, which took him from humble beginnings as an apprenti
Gianni Versace created a fashion house that, as British Vogue declared, defined late twentieth-century glamour, invented the supermodel and sanctioned in the public consciousness a supremely self-assu
Armani's style is elegance and sensual simplicity incarnate. 'Few names in fashion conjure so distinctive a look,' said British Vogue. For Armani, design has always been about an easy, timeless grace,
A provocateur, radical thinker and instigator of the most important sartorial statements of the twentieth and twenty/first centuries, Vivienne Westwood is a fearless nonconformist with a relentless pa
