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  1920s Icons Movie Stars Greta Garbo Louise Brooks Royals
In their day they were thought every bit as much fashion icons as Princess Diana, Princess of Wales was in her era.
Louise Brooks is one the most famous fashion icons of the 20th century and of the 1920s.
She may not have fitted the same mould as other fashion icons but even in her 100th year people loved to see what outfit she would be wearing at an event.
www.fashion-era.com /1920s/fashion_icons_1920s.htm   (2653 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Icons of Fashion: The 20th Century (Prestel's Icons): Books: Gerda Buxbaum,Andrea Affaticati   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The history of the 20th century can be revealed through its fashion trends, and Gerda Buxbaum Icons Of Fashion: The 20th Century proves this with an overview of fashion trends and revolutions.
Yes, there are the icons of fashion to testify to these changes: Chanel, Karan and others - but also fine photos capturing styles ranging from body stockings to military and cocktail dress; all contained in an excellent overview blending visuals with a running commentary on fashion's influence.
The history of the 20th century can be revealed through its fashion trends, and Gerda Buxbaum Icons Of Fashion: The 20th Century proves this with an overview of fashion trends and...
www.amazon.com /Icons-Fashion-20th-Century-Prestels/dp/3791321617   (922 words)

  
  Jewish Fashion Icons
He was one of the first in the fashion industry, in 1985, to take a public stand in the fight against HIV.
He was also the first fashion designer to use vinyl and plastic in his collections.
Calvin Klein was born Richard Klein on November 19, 1942, in the Bronx, New York.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Fashion.html   (1109 words)

  
  Fashion - Further Reading - MSN Encarta
Encyclopedia of fashion covering designers, photographers, models, and other fashion icons.
Examines fashion as a reflection of European culture from the Middle Ages to the 1990s.
Fashion in Detail: From the 17th and 18th Centuries.
encarta.msn.com /readings_761585452/Fashion.html   (168 words)

  
 CollegeJournal | Fashion
There's serious money to be made in the fashion industry, the fourth largest in the world; in the U.S. alone, total clothing sales topped $180 billion in 2001, despite the economic downturn and reduced spending.
Fashion houses, manufacturers, and retailers are expanding and diversifying while taking advantage of new technology.
Insiders from all over the fashion world say that their jobs are high on stress and low on pay.
www.collegejournal.com /researchindustries/researchindustries/fashion-v.html   (1712 words)

  
 Legendary fashion icons of yesterday inspire modern styles - Arts & Living
Fashion has become the means for ultimate artistic expression, continuously transforming itself as it reflects its time.
Many fashion icons have influenced this evolution of style with their own exclusive vision of what is aesthetically pleasing.
Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind.
media.www.dailycollegian.com /media/storage/paper874/news/2007/05/01/ArtsLiving/Legendary.Fashion.Icons.Of.Yesterday.Inspire.Modern.Styles-2889180.shtml   (485 words)

  
  Victoria Beckham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victoria is a pop singer, songwriter, fashion designer, model and international tabloid icon.
Known also as "Posh Spice" - or, affectionately, "Posh" - a nickname given to her by the BBC's Top of the Pops magazine, Victoria is one of the most celebrated, photographed, criticised and gossiped about celebrities of the modern era.
In 2004 Victoria designed a fashion line for Rock and Republic called 'VB Rocks'consisting mainly of jeans for the high end of the market (retailing at approximately $300 in the U.S.).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria_Beckham   (1900 words)

  
 ARX. FASHION LAWS. STREET RULES.
The label earned wide appeal as a high-end fashion label, and was stocked alongside international fashion icons in boutiques across Australia and New Zealand.
A second generation in style, one that's revolutionary in its appeal and extraordinary in its ability to combine the laws of fashion with the rules of the street.
Consisting of specialists in engineering, graphic art, advertising and design, the team combines the experience of the fashion world with the knowledge of the street market to create a label that is stylish, smart, tough and streetwise.
www.a-r-x.com /profile.html   (293 words)

  
 Italian Fashion Icons - D&G, Georgio Armani, Gucci, Roberto Cavalli, Ferragamo Salvatore, Fernanda Gattinoni, Emilio ...
Armani is not just any fashion house that we are discussing now but rather the name which decide the ultimate in any form of fashion.
Call it glamour, fashion, rock or simply Roberto Cavalli, the fashion idol of Italy has rocked the world of all fashion maniacs.
The Valentino fashion house was the brain child of Valentino Garavani, who is known to every fashion conscious citizen in Italy and all around the world.
www.ultimateitaly.com /fashion   (420 words)

  
 Icons of Fashion: The 20th Century (Prestel's Icons)
The history of the 20th century can be revealed through its fashion trends, and Gerda Buxbaum Icons Of Fashion: The 20th Century proves this with an overview of fashion trends and revolutions.
Yes, there are the icons of fashion to testify to these changes: Chanel, Karan and others - but also fine photos capturing styles ranging from body stockings to military and cocktail dress; all contained in an excellent overview blending visuals with a running commentary on fashion's influence.
as i am one who like fashions i have a request which i dont no if will be possible to assist, and that is i would like to have copy of fashion books if possilbe every year and i would like to have free catalogue.
www.homehealthcareinfo.com /books/isbn3791321617.html   (633 words)

  
 Fashion Icons: Finding Your Favorite - The Student Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The ubiquity of this response brings up an central point about fashion icons: the way in which they wore clothes is just as important, or maybe more so, than the actual clothes they wore.
Jennifer Aniston’s fashion choices tend to be tame, with lots of fl dresses, but, like a modern Audrey Hepburn, she never fails to look beautiful and classy.
Being a fashion icon is definitely about beautiful clothes, but also about wearing them with poise and elegance.
www.tsl.pomona.edu /index.php?article=248   (1084 words)

  
 More Fashion Quotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
For FutureFashion, 28 leading fashion designers were given the opportunity to create fashion using renewable, reusable, sustainable and eco-friendly fabrics such as organic cotton, organic wool, soy and corn fibers, eco-friendly biopolymers, and natural and low-impact dyes.
Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
Yves Saint-Laurent, considered by many in the fashion world to be the greatest fashion designer of the last century and the inventor of modern fashion.
www.lotusorganics.com /articles/MoreFashionQuotes.aspx   (1138 words)

  
 LBC Advertising: Client - Fashion Icons
Oscar de La Renta is one of the premiere fashion brands in the world.
Liz Claiborne is also one of the premiere fashion brands in the world.
The strategy was to bring the brand to the world of home furnishings as it has appeared for years in print.
www.lbcad.com /c_fashion.html   (156 words)

  
 Fashion in India,Indian Fashion,Fashion Design in India,Fashion Week,Fashion Icons,Fashion designers in India,India ...
Fashion in India is a vibrant scene, a nascent industry and a colorful and glamorous world where designers and models start new trends every day.
Fashion designers such as Ritu Kumar, Ritu Beri, Rohit Bal, Rina Dhaka, Muzaffar Ali, Satya Paul, Abraham and Thakore, Tarun Tahiliani, JJ Valaya and Manish Malhotra are some of the well known fashion designers in India.
Fashion in India is continuously evolving as new designers from leading institutes such as the National Institutes of Fashion Technology continue to redefine the meaning of Fashion in India.
www.indiaprofile.com /fashion/index.html   (668 words)

  
 Kids Domain Icon Mania - Fashion Doll Icons
These icons are fan art, and should not be confused with official products from any company.
Here are some icons I've made of my Favorite Fashion Doll that are free for personal use.
The outfits are reminiscent of the haute couture fashions of the early 1960s.
www.kidsdomain.com /icon/doll.html   (355 words)

  
 KSBI-TV - Fashion & Beauty - Jessica Simpson Debuts Jeans Collection for Fashion Bug
With her success in music, television and film, Simpson's clothes have influenced fashion from the biggest cities to the smallest towns.
Fashion Bug customers will find the new Jessica Simpson(TM) jeans in a variety of styles and fits that will meet each one of their denim needs.
The "fashion" style is a low-rise fit that is fitted through the hips and thighs with a slightly flared leg.
www.ksbitv.com /fashion/1791117.html   (354 words)

  
 UCW Entertainment Newswire - British Fashion Icons Step out in Their Favourite Dress to Help British Youngsters
Zandra and her creative team are working with teenagers from the museum’s education programme to design the event décor – an explosion of colour and fun in hot summer colours pink, orange blue.
Located in one of the fashion capitals of the world, London, the museum is the first of its kind to showcase the talent of local and international fashion and textile designers.
Fashion and Textile Museum’s educational program aims to stimulate, encourage and inspire young minds through the study of contemporary fashion and textile design.
news.ucwe.com /content/view/438/2   (809 words)

  
 CANOE - Lifewise Style: Fashion Icons
As the new spokesman of Pleasures fragrance, Paltrow was chosen, according to Estee Lauder chairman John Dempsey, for her innate sense of elegance and style, and for her intuition for fashion.
We have to believe that, because she has a gift of renewing herself over and over, Madonna is the icon that had the biggest influence on the world of fashion.
Here is how fashion designer Roland Mouret describes her: "Every decade, a woman marks the world of fashion and represents her generation.
lifewise.canoe.ca /Style/2006/01/24/1409655.html   (541 words)

  
 Fashion icons reunite - Fashion - Entertainment - theage.com.au
The icons of Melbourne fashion who attended the launch of a new book on the history of fashion.
It's about fashion generally, and "The Lane" particularly; the once thumping heart of a grinding, funny, naughty and, very occasionally, glamorous industry.
A top model of the 1950s, Diane Masters remembered the glamour of fashion parades when Georges of Collins Street was a portal of international high fashion.
www.theage.com.au /news/fashion/fashion-icons-reunite/2005/09/09/1125772695277.html   (750 words)

  
 Fashion Icons of the 1930's - Associated Content
The 1930’s was an ironic period in the field of fashion.
This article offers short biographies of those 1930 fashion icons and briefly discusses how each one influenced women for generations to come.
She started a wave of starlets that were not classically beautiful but still had that “something about them” The fashion world is forever indebted to the woman with those “teasing” eyes.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/28641/fashion_icons_of_the_1930s.html   (537 words)

  
 MyWestTexas.com - Fashion icons had their own 'look' that others imitated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
There are other things that link the three fashion icons -- their heyday was the mid-1950s through the '60s, yet they continue to serve as inspiration to today's designers.
She followed fashion and could be seen front and center at Givenchy runway shows, yet there always was a touch of girlishness in her style.
--Jackie Kennedy: She was a fashion innovator, and her daring fashion choices were a sign that she had an innate sense of style instead of one manufactured by advisers.
www.mywesttexas.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=17590030&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475591&rfi=6   (349 words)

  
 Television Without Pity Iconic Statement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Heidi explains vaguely that the challenge will be for the designers to modernize the look of a fashion icon.
There are ten fashion icons waiting for them in the workroom.
Distracting us from her claims of having TEN icons in the untidy workroom, she says that the models will be choosing the icons for the designers.
www.televisionwithoutpity.com /articles/content/a12250/index-1.html   (465 words)

  
 TLC :: The Greatest Fashion Icons in Film
The Greatest Fashion Icons in Film celebrates legendary fashion icons in cinema, yet also has a surprising, contemporary twist.
Not only do we focus on the great fashion moments, scenes that are iconic, we also celebrate which of today's stars best exemplify fashion legends.
Then, Tune-in for The Greatest Fashion Icons in Film premiering February 23 at 10/9c.
tlc.discovery.com /tv/specials/film-fashion-icons/film-fashion-icons.html   (120 words)

  
 Unlikely fashion icons | Metro.co.uk
The footballer's fiancee was once universally derided for her appalling but expensive fashion sense, but has made an astonishing transformation from chav to chic - even appearing in Vogue magazine.
When she appeared in the fashion bible, she was criticised by some but editor Alexandra Shulman defended the magazine's decision, calling "beautiful" and praising her "brilliant sense of style".
She is currently the face of Asda's fashion line, George, for which she was paid a reported £3 million.
www.metro.co.uk /fame/article.html?in_article_id=28410&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=   (519 words)

  
 The fashion world pays tribute to one of its best-loved icons | Vogue
The ultimate Park Avenue princess, Kempner will always be remembered as the definitive style icon, a woman in possession of all the fashion rules worth knowing, among them: "Spend the money", "Never forget your gloves", "Dress for lunch", and "Make the effort".
A loyal couture customer and an avid supporter of fashion as an art in its own right, she was as charming as she was self-deprecating.
Admitting that her father had once told her, "You'll never make it on your face, so you'd better be interesting", she claimed that intellectuals only warmed to her because she was so stupid that they had plenty to teach her.
www.vogue.co.uk /vogue_daily/story/story.asp?stid=27280&date=&sid=   (472 words)

  
 Fashion Icons of the 50s Inspire Winning Dress in The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition for High School ...
Open to high school seniors in the U.S. and Canada, the Passion for Fashion Competition awarded two grand-prize winners full-tuition scholarships to study fashion design or fashion marketing at one of 22 Art Institute locations with fashion across North America.
Field's winning design, a light brown knee-length dress with fitted bodice and tulle skirt, was inspired by fashion icons of the 50s, including Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, and the woods surrounding his family's vacation home in New Hampshire.
The views expressed in the articles are not necessarily those of earthtimes.org and we accept no responsibility for the views or opinions expressed in the articles either direct or indirect.
www.earthtimes.org /articles/show/news_press_release,43647.shtml   (655 words)

  
 Home design borrowing from runway fashion
The worlds of runway fashion and interior design, once thought to occupy separate spheres, are overlapping more and more.
The first hint that fashion icons were storming the home front may have come in 1983, when Ralph Lauren launched his home collection, which includes everything from paint to bedding.
As soon as she started seeing pale blue and brown combining on the runways Buisson knew it was a matter of time before people took that idea into their homes, and she quickly got her product line ready to meet that demand, she says.
www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/home/articles/0923fashion0923.html   (721 words)

  
 Patty Fox Returns as Oscar® Fashion Coordinator
Trained as a fashion designer, Fox is the author of two books, Star Style: Hollywood Legends as Fashion Icons and Star Style at the Academy Awards.
During a decade as the Fashion Director for Saks Fifth Avenue's Western Region, she launched the premiere collections for such designers as Christian Lacroix, Donna Karan, Isaac Mizrahi and Karl Lagerfeld.
In her role as Academy Awards fashion coordinator, Fox will coordinate the fashion preview, scheduled for February 11, 2004 in the Academy's Grand Lobby, and will assist presenters and performers in their Oscar Night fashion selections.
www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2003/03.12.05.html   (216 words)

  
 Patty Fox : Alumni : Fashion Design : FIDM
FIDM graduate Patty Fox is a multi-talented fashion professional "of and for ALL seasons".
Prior to opening her studio, Fox was Director of Fashion and Marketing for Saks Fifth Avenue's Western Region.
She produced the annual sneak-preview fashion shows for an international press corps and world-wide audience.
www.fidm.com /academics/majors/fashion-design/alumni/patty-fox/index.html   (354 words)

  
 Hot Scott! International Fashion Designer Willie Scott Designer Of Choice For Nation's Top Cultural Icons
International Fashion Designer "Willie Scott's" reputation as the "Go To" Guy in enhancing the personal and professional profiles for Prince, Michael Jackson (for his Trial Of The Century recent court appearance), current and previous NBA and NFL Legends and world leaders is well earned and expanding.
It is akin to selecting a crafty captain to lead a seasoned commander and his ship (their careers) to shore…to refit them for battle and assure their triumphant emergence.
The interest is more than design, but Willie’s intuitive ability to craft and define the images of some of our decade’s most profound icons in a manner that is synomonous with their esteem or that conveys a sense of dignity and conquest at moments that are challenging.
www.prweb.com /releases/2004/4/prwebxml119949.php   (775 words)

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