Designers
Fashion designers
Biographical and visual-analytical profiles of fashion designers whose methods shaped the language of modern dress.
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Alexander McQueen
Fashion as theatre, anatomy, trauma and technological spectacle02Christian Dior
The New Look and the architecture of femininity: how ten years of one couturier's work changed postwar fashion, the economy of haute couture and the very model of the global fashion house03Cristóbal Balenciaga
The architect of the fashion silhouette: how a Basque tailor turned fabric, cutting and the emptiness around the body into one of the principal languages of twentieth-century haute couture04Gabrielle Chanel
Creating the modern women's wardrobe: how comfort, menswear cutting, knitwear, black and a managed legend formed one of the most durable languages of twentieth-century fashion05Gaetano Pesce
Industrial production tuned so that every example in a series differs from the next.06John Galliano
Historic costume, theatrical storytelling and fashion as a total staging07Karl Lagerfeld
The author of a visual empire: how drawing, the archive, photography and parallel work for several houses formed the model of the contemporary creative director08Martin Margiela
Deconstruction, anonymity and clothing as a system of time09Miuccia Prada
Intellectual fashion and the aesthetic of contradiction: how nylon, the uniform, 'wrong' beauty, architecture and contemporary art changed the language of luxury10Philippe Starck
The designer as a public figure and media argument, selling an object together with their own name.11Rei Kawakubo
Clothing as a conceptual object: how Comme des Garçons destroyed habitual ideas of beauty, the body, authorship and the very boundary between fashion and art12Verner Panton
Colour and synthetic material as the load-bearing structure of an entire environment rather than an object’s finish.13Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion, art and the women's tuxedo: how a designer turned the menswear wardrobe, painting, the street and ready-to-wear into a new language of the modern woman