After a serious knee injury restricting Dinnigan to stay within her home and rest, she began making evening wear and lingerie for her friends and family. With beautifully hand sewn silks and fine soft laces, it was not long before these creations became the inspiration Dinnigan needed to re launch her career within the fashion industry.…
Schiaparelli’s marriage failed and decided to go to Paris with Gaby Picabia and Man Ray. While she was in Paris, Paul Poriet encouraged her to start designing clothes. 1927 was the start of Schiaparelli’s career, she started her own business called…
Vera Wang, 54, is a fashion designer born in New York City to a Chinese-American family. Wang was the daughter of a Chinese born business tycoon and an elegant, worldly mother who regularly shopped the couture shows in Paris. Wang began figure skating at the age of eight and began training for the Olympics in 1968 and ended up not doing well. She graduated from college of Sarah Lawrence with a degree in art history and tried working her way up the fashion food chain. Wang’s father had no faith in her but she had the passion and desire and continued to focus on fashion. In 1989, it was her own wedding that launched her wedding brand while working for Ralph Laure. She worked at Vogue magazine for sixteen years as a senior fashion editor before she became a successful…
Ai Weiwei was born May 18th, 1957 in Beijing, China. Poet, artist, architect, curator, activist; Ai Weiwei has become one of…
Dr. Maya Angelou is one of the most renounced and influential voices of our time. She played a big part in the global Renaissance and is a poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Dr. Maya Angelou was born as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4th, 1928. Her parents divorced when she was three years old and she and her brother, Bailey were sent to live with her grandmother, Annie Henderson for most of her teenaged years. Maya Angelou spent her childhood in California, Arkansas, and St. Louis.…
Geena`s career began in 1980s, she first worked as a model, a mannequin in the window for the Ann Taylor, and a few months later, signed a contract with the Zoli modeling agency, based in New York.…
After High school she kept on moving back and forth from the East to the Midwest, that was the reason why she attended several different universities. After tried out several different fields of studies, she discovered photography and decided to continue her education in this field. She received her bachelor’s degree in 1927. After her graduation she opened a studio in Cleveland, Ohio. At first she specialized in architectural photography, that was when she started taking pictures of the Otis Steel factory. Her work resulted to be some of the best steel factory pictures of that era, and these earned her…
I chose to read and write about this book out of curiosity, how did Woman Wang die? How can this "novel" be a historical work? I opened the book expecting to see the whole life of Woman Wang, and I was wrong. As Spence has commented " she has been to me like one of those stones that one sees shimmering through the water at low tide and picks up from the waves almost with regret, knowing that in a few moments the colors suffusing the stone will fade and disappear as the stone dries in the sun. But in this case the colors and veins did not fade; rather they grew sharper as they lay in my hand, and now and again I knew it was the stone itself that was passing on warmth to the living flesh that held it." (J. D. Spence, "Death of woman Wang") How can a small stone that has been lost in the ashes of time trigger such an outburst of emotion? Has the life of Woman Wang been so special? No, she was too normal, too unnoticeable and too much like an ant that was meant…
Born in Brooklyn, New York on November 8th, 1897 Dorthy Day was a very influential…
Frida Kahlo de Rivera was born on July 6, 1907. She claimed to been born in 1910 but she was actually born in 1907; she lied about her birthdate for the purpose of vanity. Her given name was Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon. She was born in Mexico City. She was also best known for self-portraits and was considered to be a surrealist and feminist as well. She was also considered to be the most famous painter in Mexico.…
Heather H. Evans (H.E.) graduated from Harvard Business School in June, 1983. She showed considerable interest in the fashion industry, having some background in this area. She was a fashion model from 1975 through 1979 and, in the summer of 1982, she worked for Jackie Hayman, Inc., as an assistant to the President of this young firm that manufactured designer clothing. An additional valuable asset was that she worked as a financial analyst for Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc. from 1979 through 1981 dealing with mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance. Her father is an attorney with a Wall Street firm. H.E. graduated from Harvard College in 1979, earning her bachelor’s degree in Philosophy. Her previous career as a model gave her a taste of running her own business, experiencing independence, the ability to travel and the opportunity to meet people. She was confident that she could run a dress company and her goal was to create a company to manufacture women’s designer clothing to sell high-priced, high-quality dress-and- jacket combinations to executive women, aged 27 to 45.…
My love affair with fashion started years ago, but over these past 2 years it has grown into something so beautiful. Fashion made it’s grand entrance in my life when I was looking over a Chanel catalog along with a few other designers. For example; Vera Wang, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Marc Jacobs, Phoebe Philo, and many more. The designs caught my eye and I was just mesmerized by it all. It literally took my breath away! I always told myself and my family that I will grow to be an amazing fashion designer and sell beautiful, elegant clothing known to man. A worldwide known designer.…
background in design is the reason she is so well known. Her artwork comes off…
1968, she graduated with a Masters in English. After college, she spent most of her time painting, writing, and had several poems published.…
In 1994, Mcqueen then went on to complete a master’s degree at Central St Martins in fashion design, although he was originally only planning on completing a pattern cutting degree. His degree catwalk show attracted a lot of attention from the media, and especially from gifted fashion editor Isabella Blow. She acquired every piece from his collection and devoted herself to building him a successful career. (nytimes.com)…