Alexander McQueen Bio

Alexander McQueen is an English Fashion Designer. His mix of creativity, contreoversy, and technical mastery has earned him three British Designer of the Year awards and many celebrity fans.He studied at St. Martin's College in London.. In 1996, he was named the role of chief designer at Givenchy. In 2000, McQueen left Givenchy and has joined the Gucci Group because he felt creatively stifled.

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Nina Ricci Bio

Nina Ricci is a Parisian fashion designer born in 1883. She became an apprentice in a paris couture house in 1900. She showed her first collection in 1932 and her fragrances in 1941. She developed a wide range of products in furs, cosmetics, and fashion accessories. Aftre her reirement in 1959, the company contiued to prosper. Nina Ricci died in 1970. By the mid-1990s she had boutiques in over 130 countries.

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Yves Saint Laurent Bio

Yves Saint Laurent was born on August 1, 1936. He continues to be innovative, and a directional force in fashion design. IN 1957, he inherited Christian Dior's Fashion house and designed there until he opened his own fashion house in 1962. Yves Saint Laurent is highly influenced by art. He opened his own boutique chain Rive Gauche in 1966 which soon expanded to 160 branches worldwide. He launched the Left Bank Look, insiped by the students who inhabited Paris. He introduced masculine tailoring for women(tuxedos and pant-suits) in 1966. He followed this with the knickerbcker suit, then culottes, then his trouser suit. An important quote from Yves Saint Laurent was "clothes were a form of protest"

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