Alexander McQueen is still known for his unique designs even after he’s death. He was born in London, England on March 17th 1969.
His fashion career started at the ripe age of 16, when he started working on Savile Row Street in London’s Mayfair district. There, he was employed with the tailor shop Anderson and Shephard, and then Gieves and Hawkes. After a while, he began working with costume designers Angels and Bermans, where his work would be trademarked later in his life.
At a very young age, Alexander was offered three apprenticeships that all consisted in construction of clothing. While he was doing this work, he learned and mastered 6 methods of pattern cutting that were used in the 16th century. Designer Koji Tatsuno employed him and a year later he was employed as Romeo Gigli’s design assistant.
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He opened stores in major cities such as New York and Milan. Leaving Givenchy seemed to give him the opportunity to produce more appealing shows. An example of this is the hologram of model Kate Moss that was present in his 2006 Fall/Winter line.
Two tragedies struck McQueen, one in 2007, when close friends Isabella Blow committed suicide. Her death “was the most valuable thing I learnt in fashion” and it was for this reason that he dedicated his 2008 Spring/Summer line. The second one occurred a couple of years later, when McQueen’s mother died. A few days later, after her shocking death McQueen himself was found dead in his apartment, the cause of death being suicide.
Sarah Burton, co-designer in McQueen’s company, became the new creative director after McQueen’s death. McQueen’s benefaction to fashion was celebrated in 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where some of his creations were shown in remembrance of
Willi Smith is an african american man. He grew up wanting to become a fashion designer so that’s what he made himself to be. Willi Smith does have two siblings . There names are Toukie Smith , and and Norman Smith. Willi smith was born and raised in Philadelphia on February 29th 1948 . Willi Smith was educated at Pearson School of Design and then was later educated at the University of Arts . He worked as a fashion illustrator , and even studied fashion design. Willie Smith then died April 17th 1987 in New York . People say that he was the most successful black designer in fashion history. After studying Commercial Art at Mastbaum bullet Technical High School Philadelphia Willie enrolled in college to study fashion.
Alexander McQueen was also known for not being shy about his lack of traditional goFashion designer Alexander McQueen hanged himself in his wardrobe and left a suicide note, a coroner told a London inquest Wednesday.
In a Mexican clinic, McQueen received treatment over the next several months. Unfortunately the treatments were to no avail. During a dual lumpectomy, on November 7th, 1980, Steve McQueen died.
Marc Jacobs is a fashion icon to many people in the fashion industry. Jacobs was born on April 9, 1963, in New York City. He is a master when working with fabrics, colors, and patterns. His intense passion for fashion has taken him straight to the top. Starting his own label in the 80’s under his own name and this has grown to be his own personal kingdom. Marc Jacobs has many items, ranging from handbags, makeup, watches, Men, and perfume. Marc Jacobs Daisy is the new feminine fragrance designed
The high class luxury brand Michael Kors has had a successful run since its 2011 retail venture but recently a decline in Michael Kors' sales slowed through its luxury bags, watches and accessories. However, it's not because consumers are not purchasing, it's because consumers are purchasing smaller Michael Kors items.
Vincent then attended preparatory classes with intense lessons of Dutch, German, French, and English along with the traditional array of math and science courses. Yet for reasons unknown, in March of 1868, Vincent returned to his home in Zundert. His boyhood came to a close in July of 1869 when he joined the art business as a dealer for Goupil & Co. This was a family tradition, as three of his uncles, including one also by the name of Vincent, were also art dealers. Vincent’s brother Theo would also become an art dealer four years after him. As a young child, Vincent was not known for his own creation of art. Though his family made a great impact on his view of dealing art, he was not an art prodigy like other famous arts such as Henri de Toulous-Lautrec and Pablo Picasso were. While a handful of his drawings between the ages of eight and ten have survived, he did not truly take a serious interest in creating art until he was twenty-seven. (Hulsker & Miller, 5-14)
Fashion Designer Ralph Lauren has become the epitome of classic fashion. Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifschitz on October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive. "The first image-maker", according to New York magazine, Lauren is one of the fashion industry's biggest hitters. But Lauren studied business science and served his time in the army before breaking into fashion. Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, by his parents who had emigrated from Belarus. He grew up in a working class neighborhood with his three brothers, mother and father (a house painter). While they were by no means poor, Ralph knew the value of a dollar from an early age and was blessed with a steadfast determination to make money
The first superstar of American art, Andy Warhol was obsessed with fame, glamour, and money. He is best known for his images of stars and celebrities and for his reproductions of symbols of the American society.
Klein's design philosophy is rooted in minimalism. This is what he is known for. He typically uses neutral colors or earth tones and designs separates that work in many different ensembles, from day to night and season to season. At the same time his advertising for jeans and fragrances was being criticized, Calvin Klein clothing was receiving critical acclaim for its clean, modern lines. (Gaines)
Before working at VolcomRichard Woolcottjoined the Quicksilver surfing team at the age of 14 and then later worked in marketing and
After decades, the original designers kept passing out and made their first assistants such as Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen and more continue the legacy of Couture.
Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen committed suicide in 2010 at the age of forty. [1]
Vincent tried first to learn the art works to other artists. When he was 16, he started working as a art dealer at a firm of Goupil & Co. located in Belgium and
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu- Saint-Laurent, who is also known as Yves Saint Laurent, was born in Oran, Algeria on August 1, 1936. He was the only boy out of three children that were birthed to Charles and Lucienne Andree Mathieu-Saint-Laurent. As young child, Yves would create dresses for his sisters and mother to wear. He also enjoyed making little doll figures. The fashion world was a place of piece in Yves world of torture. In school he was often bullied due to be homosexual. When Saint Laurent was at the age of 17 years old his mother took him to Paris to officially pursue his dreams of becoming a fashion designer. He enrolled in to a stint fashion school, but that was short live when he won a design contest. Due to winning that fashion design contest he was given the opportunity to meet Vogue editor Michel da Brunhoff. Vogue was so impress with his designs that they not only took published his them, but Yves and showed the designs to a designer and fashion icon, Christian Dior. Dior loved the designs that were places upon him and hire the young Yves Saint Laurent had his design assistant for House of Dior. In 1960, Yves Saint Laurent would leave his positon as creative director for House of Dior to fight for the French military on the South of France. He later returned home and continued on with his fashion career. On June 1, 2008 Yves Saint Laurent passed away in his Paris home from brain cancer. He was 71 years of age.
Alexander McQueen was a fashion designer born in London in 1960. Once he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1992, he founded his own, self-titled music