Zang Toi was born and raised in a small village in Kelantan, the youngest of seven children of a grocer. After leaving his native Malaysia at the age of eighteen,
Zang arrived in New York and at the age of 20, began his studies […]
Fashion designer Derek Lam was born in San Francisco, and is 4th generation Chinese American. Growing up the youngest of three children, his parents had a business that imported clothes from Asia.
Additionally, his grandparents ran a garment factory that focused on bridal and wedding […]
Toni was born in Badalona, Barcelona, and felt attracted by fashion since he was a child. His mother was dressmaker and he grew up between threads and patterns.
He studied fashion design at Instituto de la Moda in Barcelona at eighteen an immediately after he began […]
Cynthia Rowley constructed her first dress when she was seven years old. Her intuitive technical skill paired with a love of “making things” led her into an undergraduate degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she began to pursue a career in fashion.
Nicole Miller, with a background in both art and haute couture fashion design, has 15 free standing stores across the US and with her designs available at 1,200 stores world wide.
With varied interests in visual expression, Nicolle is an avid collector of artists like Andy Warhol, Ross […]
In 1985, with the assistance of a controversial marketing move in Times Square naming Tommy Hilfiger as one of the top four fashion designers America, he introduced his first signature menswear collection.
Born the second of nine children in Elmira, New York, Hilfiger’s career in fashion began […]
Likely the largest collection I photographed in Mercedes-Benz Fall 2011 Fashion week, G-star Raw, a denim oriented fashion label started in 1989 and today with almost 200 stores across the globe, operates under the philosophy “Just the product”.
Combining everything from using 3-D thinking in the construction design […]
Just announced – Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Board of Directors ratified the addition of 33 new designers to its membership, bringing the group’s total to 406.
“The class of 2011 represents the largest number of designers since the organization’s founding in 1962,” said Steven Kolb, CEO of the CFDA.
Two of the newly added designers are among those I have photographed showing their designs on […]
Charlotte Ronson was Born in London into an artistic family and raised in New York. She followed the tradition by developing her own unique style at an early age.
In 2000, Ronson launched her first collection, C. Ronson, which gained instant recognition and the […]
