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This is a list of notable fashion designers sorted by nationality. It includes designers of haute couture and ready-to-wear. For haute couture only, see the list of grands couturiers. For footwear designers, see the list of footwear designers.
Michael David Kors (born Karl Anderson Jr.[ 2] August 9, 1959) is an American fashion designer. He is the chief creative officer of his brand, [ 3] Michael Kors, which sells men's and women's ready-to-wear, accessories, watches, jewelry, footwear, and fragrance. Kors was the first women's ready-to-wear designer for the French house Celine, from ...
Thomas Carlyle Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched his eponymous brand in 2005, having previously been the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Ford wrote and directed the films A Single Man (2009) and Nocturnal Animals (2016).
Virgil Abloh ( / ˈæbloʊ /; September 30, 1980 – November 28, 2021) was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. A trained architect, Abloh founded his own line of luxury streetwear clothing under the moniker Pyrex Vision in 2012, which he transformed into the Milan -based fashion label Off-White in 2013.
Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963) is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for his own fashion label, Marc Jacobs, and formerly Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, which was produced for approximately 15 years, before it was discontinued after the 2015 fall/winter collection. [ 1] At its peak, it had over 200 retail stores in ...
Thomas Jacob Hilfiger (/ h ɪ l ˈ f ɪ ɡ ər / hil-FIG-ər; born March 24, 1951) [1] is an American fashion designer and the founder of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. [2]After starting his career by co-founding a chain of jeans/fashion stores called People's Place in upstate New York in the 1970s, he began designing preppy clothing for his own eponymous menswear line in the 1980s.
Jean Paul Gaultier[ a] ( French: [ʒɑ̃ pɔl ɡotje]; born 24 June 1952) [ 1] is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. He is described as an "enfant terrible" of the fashion industry and is known for his unconventional designs with motifs including corsets, marinières, and tin cans. Gaultier founded his eponymous ...
Guccio Gucci was born in Florence, Tuscany on 26 March 1881. [ 1] He was the son of Tuscan parents, Gabriello Gucci, a leather craftsman from San Miniato, and Elena Santini, from Lastra a Signa. [ 2][ 3] As a teenager, in 1899, Guccio Gucci worked at the Savoy Hotel in London. [ 4][ 5] Little is known about his early life circumstances and what ...