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DESIGNERS

Donna Faske

Donna Faske, who later becomes fashion mogul Donna Karan, was born on the 2rd of October 1948 in Queens, New York. Her upbringing was tailored for a career as a budding fashion designer. Her mother was a showroom model and her step-father was a practicing suit maker.
Such influences and auspicious connections were not wasted on the young Karan, and she was admitted to the prestigious Parson’s School of Design in 1968. While attending the design school, Karan managed to get a summer job working for designer Anne Klein. Her work was so impressive that within two years, she was promoted to associate designer. By the tender age of 14 she was already selling clothes on Cedarhurst in New York. Donna Karan is respected as one of the world’s foremost designers and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels. 

Donna Karan

                                                        Walter Van Beirendonck
Walter Van Beirendonck was born on 4^th of febuary 1957 Born in Antwrep (BE). Since his early collections, Walter has been inspired for his designs by art, music and literature, all mixed with ethnic and nature influences.

Walter Van Beirendonck is considered to be one of the main trend-setters in men's fashion by the professional press.His designs are very recognizable by either strong graphics or innovating cuts and unexpected colour combinations . The red thread throughout his collections is his sense of humor, sex with an eye-wink and his concern about 'safe sex'.
His continuous statements about the fashion world, earth, nature,  contemporary life and society are collected in prints and slogans.Often 'double bottomed'! Always in a complete unconventional context. Since 1983 carries every collection a well-defined name.
since 1985 is Walter teaching in the fashion department from the Royal Academy of Arts-Antwerp/Belgium

 Walter Van Beirendonck

                                                            Lee McQueen

Lee Mcqueen

Lee McQueen who would later find fame as fashion visionary Alexander McQueen was born on 17 March 1969 in London. The boy destined for a future in high fashion came from a very modest background. His father was a cabbie and Lee McQueen grew up in council house in East London.

By the time he was sixteen, McQueen had decided to devote himself entirely to fashion. He dropped out of school and took an apprenticeship at the Savile Row tailors Anderson and Shepherd. This experience gave him the opportunity to sharpen his technical skills and tailoring, for which he later became famous. He progressed to Gieves and Hawkes and then to costumiers Angels and Bermans. The variety of his apprenticeships gave him the opportunity to master many different tailoring techniques.

From tailoring on Savile Row, McQueen made the transition to working alongside Koji Tatsuno and at the age of 21 he moved to Milan to work with Romeo Gigli. McQueen completed master’s degree in fashion design at the prestigious Central St. Martins College, where he had originally just hoped to be a pattern cutter. His collection, the culmination of his apprenticeships, received keen media attention and firmly established him as a promising young fashion designer. He then set about making a name for himself.

He also crafted a reputation. McQueen, by virtue of a petulant bad boy image and frequent outbursts, became ‘L’Enfant Terrible’. Attitude in tow, McQueen and his new self-titled label were taking over fashionable London. He won the British Designer of the Year Award in 1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003. In 1997, he was employed by couture house Givenchy and promptly, and impudently, dismissed the label’s founder, Hubert de Givenchy, as ‘irrelevant’. Subsequently, his first Givenchy line bombed.

McQueen, however, was still respected in the fashion world and was allowed a second chance, a great mark of respect in a notoriously unforgiving industry. In 2000, Gucci purchased a controlling interest in the McQueen line. This move ended McQueen’s tumultuous relationship with Givenchy and gave him a greater creative license.

In 2003, McQueen was presented with the International Award by The Council of Fashion Designers of America and also received a CBE. By 2007, he had opened boutiques in cities across the world, including in Las Vegas, New York and Milan. And A list celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker and Nicole Kidman were wearing his creations on red carpets from LA to London.

It was announced on 11 February 2010 that McQueen had been found dead at his Mayfair home. The news came just days after the death of his beloved mother, Joyce.

Lee McQueen will be remembered for introducing us to the “bumster”, for his fabulous tailoring, outrageous style and enormous talent. He is much mourned by the fashion community.