Ferragamo Salvatore ~ Ever heard of ‘The Cage Heel’? It was designed by Salvatore Ferragamo!

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It’s 1907 in Bonito, Italy.  You’re nine years old.  What do you with your free time?  Most children, one would guess, would play street ball with their friends or perhaps tag along with their older brothers and chase girls.

Not Salvatore Ferragamo.  At age 9, he made his first pair of shoes for his sisters to wear to their Christian confirmation ceremony.  Most brothers wouldn’t want to be dragged to a ceremony, never mind make shoes for their sisters!

Emilio Pucci ~ Prince of Prints

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But for Emilio, there wouldn’t have been the Capri Pants!

Emilio Pucci di Barsento, “Prince of Prints,” was born in Naples in1914. He moved to the University of Georgia for further studies after spending two years at the Milan University.

Miuccia Prada ~ Fashion is my passion but I don’t let it rule my life!

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Born in the year 1949, Miuccia Prada entered family business by 1978. The leather goods Company, a family luxury was founded by Mario, grandfather of Miuccia Prada’s in 1913 in Milan. Though reluctant, Prada took over the reins of the company in 1978. By then Miuccia Prada had completed her studies and acquired a PhD in Political Science.

Victoria Beckham ~ Posh and Style

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Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams; born 17 April 1974) is an English fashion designer, businesswoman and former singer. In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops. 

John Galliano ~ The Designer who changed the Face of Fashion

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“I don’t think people here understood where I was coming from.” - John Galliano

The Elegance of Christian Dior

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Christian Dior (21 January 1905 – 23 October 1957) was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world’s top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior.

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel ~ A Woman of Her Own

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Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, one of the greatest fashion designers of the 20th century.

“I don’t like people talking about the Chanel fashion,”- she once said. “Chanel – above all else, is a style. Fashion, you see, goes out of fashion. Style never.”