25 Women Designers Who Changed Fashion Forever The upcoming Costume Institute exhibit and Monday's Met Ball honors two of fashion's most beloved women designers: Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada. But what about the other female names that have helped to change fashion forever? Recently, Style.com's Nicole Phelps noted that in New York fashion today there is a surprising lack of big-name female designers, which begged the question: "Is it easier to succeed in New York fashion as a man?" Phelps certainly has a point: After all, in the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund's eight year history, the prize has only been awarded to women designers twice. The dearth of female designers in New York is particularly disheartening, when you consider the important role women have played in shaping fashion's past and present. So, in honor of those women that have blazed the trail in fashion design, we take a look at the 25 most influential female designers, with the help of Parsons' Francesca Granata and Pratt's Jennifer Minniti.
London Fashion Week 2015: From catwalk to High Street 24 February 2015Last updated at 19:03 ET By Harriet Hall BBC News Inside London Fashion Week Twice a year, London's grand neoclassical Somerset House, welcomes a tumult of fashion designers and their models dressed in their finest gladrags. The courtyard becomes the centre of London Fashion Week - a far cry from the building's sober past as home to the Inland Revenue. This year sees the event's 61st year, during which more than 250 designers will showcase their collections for autumn and winter to a global audience. For those outside the fashion industry, it can be difficult to appreciate why this week is so important. Indeed, watching the crowds teetering on vertiginous heels, heads topped with designer sunglasses, arms toting handbags and hands clutching smartphones, it is easy to understand why. Yet while it may look like a big party to outsiders, the week is a crucial one for the industry. Some catwalk fashions may seem outlandish or frivolous.... Trickle-down trends “Start Quote
All Workspaces: Spring 2015 Pantone Fashion Color Report - from Pantone.com Alice & Trixie by Angela George The creative director, designers and sales teams all sit in an open space - bringing creativity and input to all areas of the company, while the production team and sewers (not pictured) help create amazing garments that are produced right here in New York. Banjanan by Caroline Weller I like to surround myself by all my inspiration and fabric developments as I pull my final collections together, in this case SP15. Connect With Banjanan Visit www.banjanan.com BCBGMAXAZRIA Submission by Lubov Azria, Chief Creative Officer Betsey Johnson Bibhu Mohapatra My desk is my drawing board - a creative sanctuary where all ideas come to life with my drafting pencil and paper. Christian Siriano In the studio creating a custom black beaded feather gown for a client. Cynthia Steffe Daniel Silverstain Located in the flower district of New York City, the Daniel Silverstain studio is an open, creative space, full of soft natural light and industrial features. David Hart David Tlale Gents
Designers | PatternVault Search: PatternVault Fashion history through sewing patterns. Designers An index to this blog’s posts on commercial patterns by a single designer or design duo. Badgley Mischka Belinda Bellville and Bellville Sassoon Alber Elbaz for Guy Laroche Frederick Fox Diane von Fürstenberg John Galliano for Givenchy Rudi Gernreich Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis Patrick Kelly Krizia Christian Lacroix Hervé L. Bob Mackie Alexander McQueen for Givenchy Bruce Oldfield Yves Saint Laurent (Mondrian collection) Elsa Schiaparelli Anna Sui Isabel Toledo Gianni Versace Gianni Versace for Genny and Complice Madeleine Vionnet Vera Wang Damian Yee for Guy Laroche Share this: Like this: Like Loading... § 3 Responses to Designers Clare Nightingale (@drasticsturgeon) says: December 2, 2012 at 8:36 am Would be fab if you could do a post on Byron Lars patterns. Leave a Reply Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. The Oulipo Theme. Follow Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Join 699 other followers Build a website with WordPress.com
Image Gallery - Design Download: ALYX - SHOWstudio - The Home of Fashion Film and Live Fashion Broadcasting Launched in 2002, SHOWstudio's Design Download initiative has a simple and direct aim: to help demystify the fashion process by offering prestigious designer garment patterns for download via the Internet. Past contributors to the series include John Galliano, Junya Watanabe, J.W. Anderson, Yohji Yamamoto and Alexander McQueen. For 2017, ALYX’s Matthew Williams has offered up a pattern from the brand’s A/W 17 collection. Once you've constructed your take on the dress, simply submit images of your creation to SHOWstudio via Twitter (@SHOWstudio #DesignDownload) and/or email (design.download@showstudio.com) for the chance to see your work displayed online in our submissions gallery.
Design Download: Giles Deacon - SHOWstudio - The Home of Fashion Film and Live Fashion Broadcasting Launched in 2002, SHOWstudio's Design Download initiative has a simple and direct aim: to help demystifying the fashion process by offering prestigious designer garment patterns for download via the Internet. The ninth installment in the series comes from one of London's top talents; acclaimed designer, renowned wit and party dress doyen Giles Deacon. He's offered up the pattern to his saucy double duchess silk The Troubadour dress from his nature-inspired Autumn/Winter 2007 collection. The frock - which was modelled on the runway by Lara Stone - is part playful, part traditional, thanks to eighteenth century notes such as a regal square neckline and puff sleeves. We celebrated the artistic potential of Deacon's pattern with an amazing competition.
Image Gallery - Design Download: J.W. Anderson - SHOWstudio - The Home of Fashion Film and Live Fashion Broadcasting Launched in 2002, SHOWstudio's Design Download initiative has a simple and direct aim: to help demystifying the fashion process by offering prestigious designer garment patterns for download via the Internet. For our tenth Design Download - launched as a special Christmas gift to viewers - J.W. Anderson offers up not one but two patterns, for a leather top and balloon skirt from his acclaimed A/W 13 collection. The asymmetric pieces, which featured in Anderson's first advertising campaign, encapsulate his experimental attitude towards shape and texture. The garments give the wearer the ability to toy with their silhouette. The 'ribbon' that loops through the hole of the skirt can be tied together as the wearer pleases, depending on how much of a balloon effect the individual would like to create. We will be celebrating the artistic potential of Anderson's pattern with a competition. Competition now closed as of 1 April 2014!
Design Download: Stephen Jones - SHOWstudio - The Home of Fashion Film and Live Fashion Broadcasting The eighth pattern in our Design Download series celebrates the seemingly endless creativity, wit and invention of master milliner Stephen Jones. A leading figure in international fashion for three decades, Jones' work has garnered international acclaim ever since his graduation from Central Saint Martins in 1979. Credited as some of the most technically innovative and creative millinery of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Jones' work has topped the collections of designers including John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Comme des Garcons and Marc Jacobs' collections for his own label and Louis Vuitton. For SHOWstudio, Jones contributed a piece that epitomises the seemingly contradictory qualities of whimsical fantasy, stunning technique and unexpected practicality that characterise his work.
Weaving is back: Take a peep inside the studios of contemporary makers on the loom Weaving is back. Not only is it very popular among DIY'ers who try it at home with the help of a YouTube tutorial, there's also an exciting scene of professional designers, artisans and artists that revitalise the centuries-old craft today. From rugs and wall hangings to art installations and subversive interventions, contemporary expressions of the craft are as diverse as they are numerous. Now you can find out more about the movement thanks to a new book by design journalist Katie Treggiden, Weaving – Contemporary Makers on the Loom, that presents a survey of this vibrant revival, with profiles of over twenty contemporary weavers: Argentinian Alexandra Kehayoglou, for example, designs breath-taking natural landscapes (for the likes of Dries van Noten), while Daniel Harris makes textiles for famous clothing brands using nineteenth-century looms and Brent Wadden weaves museum-standard fabrics.