Fashion Designers

The name of Italian designer Giorgio Armani is synonymous with sophisticated and elegant fashion. In addition to apparel his spectacularly successful business empire includes lines of jewelry, cosmetics, fragrances, and eyewear, among other products. He also is the president of Milan basketball team. He is distinguished too for constructing a mansion on the Carribean island of Antigua. Most importantly, he was among the first fashion designers to ban models with body mass index under 18. Amongst other titles Armani got, Forbes also picked him twice as the most successful Italian designer in 2001 and in 2006. The following year, he was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In 2005, he was named the Best Dressed Environmentalist. However, Giorgio Armani wouldn‘t have the tenth fraction of this success, if it hadn‘t been for that one special person who made it all happen.

Juicy Couture is not a popular brand since it is too young yet. However, the items from Juicy Couture are found with lots of celebrities who prefer staying loyal to brands with the perfect reputation. The brands launch the clothes that are made practical, durable and frivolous to some extent with the hint of girlish naivety and some immaturity which is quite suitable during week days. The name of the company is accentuated upon the thirst for the unique interpretation of fashion showing its juiciness, the possibility to launch the clothes for both teenagers and mature flappers with their carving for flamboyant wear.

Roberto Coin, the designer from Italy, founded his Jewelry House more than thirty years ago, in 1977. His works are easy to tell apart among other jewelry; they differ in fragile and incredible lavishness. His collections proved to be elite throughout the world.  The celebrities like Halle Berry, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Nicole Kidman, Madonna, Sharon Stone, Denise Richards, Uma Turman and other stars admire his works.

Fashion in Italy is a nationwide passion, and if you want to see what is in fashion you only need to stroll to restaurants and streets and various piazzas. People go to those places to show their best things and be sure that almost every Italian follows the trends and is aware of what is in vogue today and tomorrow. The words «Italian fashion» is associated with something stylish, pleasant and elegant with any person, even if the latter refers to the world fashion in an indirect manner. The Italian fashion is imagined as the sheer and vivid fabric, this is the hoarse voice of Celentano from the stereo of the white cabriolet, this is a glass of martini with a perfect piece of tiramisu. This is the style least of all subject to conventions rather than the French fashion, though as elegant as the latter.

Coco Chanel once said, «Fashions pass, style remains». This maxim is one of the fashion's most famous for a reason - it's true. And it has never been more so in case of Spanish fashion. Spanish fashion is a wondrous medley of beauty, style, lines, cuts and silhouettes in myriads of colors and bold striking prints. Spanish style is the style of outwardly reserved and inwardly passionate Donnas and Dons which can be best defined by the word «gorgeous» as in «gorgeous designs by Cristobal Balenciaga». His dresses are timeless, and as good wine, they only get better with age. Balenciaga was not only a fashion designer, but an engineer and an architect, as he once said, «A couturier must be: an architect for design, a sculptor for safe, a painter for color, a musician for harmony and philosopher for temperance».

Miss Sixty is one of the most successful lines of clothing of the Sixty Group brand, created in the early 1990s. The brand quickly gained international attention and popularity with the fair sex. The first collection was launched in 1991, and its first branch was established in the United States in 1992. However, it took until 1999 before the Miss Sixty monobrand store was opened in London and was quite a success.

Hedi Slimane has become a figure acknowledged as the legendary as far as the first collections of this designer from France were launched for the wide public. He is believed to be the somewhat weird but genius. He exists in the extended boundaries of the world of art where he is a professional since he studied it whereas the world of design is a weird topic for him, at least he would appear to be non-professional if not his taste and style.

I wonder if there is anyone who has never heard of Donna Karan? Certainly, but there is hardly anyone who has never seen the signature fragrance, DKNY Be Delicious, in the apple-shaped bottle, which for years has been gracing the pages of glossy magazines, beauty counters and boutiques. The note palette of the «Apple» is regularly enhanced, its advertising concept revolutionized, its ‘faces' changed to adapt to the new beauty concept, but its shape remains unaltered. DKNY are the magical four letters that are not just a brand name, as well as the «apple» is not just a fruit, which changes its perfume notes from season to season. The history of the DKNY brand is a declaration of love for New York, the crazy, wild, business-driven, bustling, and iconic «Big Apple». Donna Karan was born in 1948, in Queens, New York, and she has always turned to her native city for inspiration. Her fashion affair with the Big Apple goes on ever since.

If you remember the legendary series of the '90s «Sex and The City», then you will understand and may perceive the statement that the best friends for a young lady is diamonds. Now the statement changed slightly when the girls having no diamonds are ready to do with gays. In the opinion of most women, the non-traditional sexual orientation males are more comprehensive in regards to women. On the top of it, they never go asleep in the boutique when a woman tries on clothes and ready to give pieces of advice.

Like Mari Adeland Niely, the founder of Nina Ricci Brand, who afterwards became Nina Ricci, the brand is one of the legendary figures in fashion world. The history of the brand goes back to its establishment in the XIX century when the 12-year-old Mary decided to go for apprenticeship at the tailor's workshop to lend a hand to her mother make ends meet. And the masters could observe that the hats designed by the young girl got highly demanded and were snatched away.

All girls play with their dolls. But Anna Sui was the only one who, when dressing her little protégés, cherished a dream that someday she would design real garments, and not simple ones, but the ones that would make women happy. And her dream came true, as those fair ladies who wear Anna Sui dresses can consider themselves lucky to be donning apparel of such unforgettable design and vigor.

Marc Jacobs has a touch and an inborn taste to design clothes that people want to wear. This is the true feature of the talented designer, you know. A satchel or a shoe it's always demanded by people, and he know how and when present his models. From grunge to prom, from private jet to Tokyo nightclub, he launches garments that suits all occasions.