Steffie Christiaens completed fashion design studies at the IFM in Paris and The Arnhem Academy in the Netherlands.
Silvio Betterelli left the idyllic island of Sardinia to pursue his lifelong passion of design in the fast-paced urban cityscape of Milan.
Marko Mitanovski is a London-based serbian designer who graduated from the College of Design in Belgrade in 2009.
Kristofer Kongshaug started his fashion career at age 16 as an assistant buyer for the Oslo luxury department store Voga.
Ilaria Nistri unfolds a universe of darkly futuristic fashion in every collection to date. Her first, held at La Bourse de Commerce, met with success in Paris in 2006.
Daniela and Annette Felder are familiar faces on the British fashion circuit.
Elisa Palomino began a passionate love affair with fashion while rummaging through her eccentric grandmother’s house and stumbling upon all sorts of strange and exotic accouterments.
Dora Mojzes began to study technical design when she was awarded the prestigious erasmus scholarship from london college of fashion.
Cushnie et Ochs provide sartorial assistance for braving that inevitable up/downtown cab ride.
Becky Cooper and Bridget yorston met at design school and from the first instant knew their acquaintance was destined for greater things.
Zda Zanditon launched her eponymously named company in 2008 after being a finalist in ‘fashioning the future’ at the London College of Fashion.
Young Lilee was one of two graduating students awarded a special distinction after presenting her very first line at the London College of Fashion’s Masters Degree Fashion show in 2010.
Yotam Solomon approaches fashion in the same way he once approached fine art school or the viola: with the dynamic talent of a virtuso.
To Long-Nam took up the sewing needle just seconds after mastering control of his motor-skills, which is to say he was very young when he began.
Siki Im’s strong menswear line is perfectly suited to the urban landscape of New York City where the designer’s creativity thrives.
Ronald Abdala creates elegant clothing that has become red carpet favorites for Hollywood’s most elite actresses.
Risto has spent a life dedicated to worldly pursuits, much like his fellow Macedonian Alexander the Great.
Rad Hourani opted out of formal design education, preferring instead to earn his fashion pedigree from the school of hard knocks.
Johanna Perret and Tutia Schaad were nominated for several design awards for their work after graduating from Berlin Kunsthochschule Weißensee in 2009.
Demi (Choon-Moo) Park was born in Kimje, a small town in the southern part of Korea, where her family owned a children’s apparel company.
Stefan Orschel-Read won gold medals as a dressage rider for Great Britain and studied law prior to designing clothes.
Matteo Thiela was born in Milan in 1972 and currently resides in a city steeped in two worlds.
Mary Katrantzou attended the Rhode Island School of Design and then completed both her BA and MA at Central Saint Martins.
Mandy Coon was thrust into the fashion world at age 20 when approached by a model scout at a Houston, Texas shopping mall.
Limi Feu taps into her deep stores of genetically passed down talent to create clothes for her own generation.
Lako Bukia’s signature style—inspired by minimalistic geometric shapes and the cubists—appeals to a woman searching for a new definition of beauty.
Krystof Strozyna already has six stunning collections to his young name after graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2007.
Prior to becoming a designer, Kilian Kerner threw his heart and soul into thespian art, following in the great tradition of german theater at drama schools in cologne and Berlin.
Katie Gallagher recreates the idyllic circumstances of her forest-fairy childhood in the cold, dark urbanity of counterculture New York, her vision thriving like lush dewy moss amidst the concrete outside of a dive bar.
Karolin Kruger has carved out a solid reputation crafting modern, feminine, pure dresses that demand high quality and perfect workmanship.
Jonathan Cohen was born and raised in California to Mexican parents, but it was in New York at the Parsons School of Design that he found his aesthetic voice.
Joanna Kulpa was born on a farm in a small town in rural Poland, moving to Toronto at the age of seven.
Jade Kang studied Fine Arts and Fashion Design and cut his teeth at the top Korean fashion houses before deciding to get expansive with his fashion outlook by traveling to London.
Graeme Armour designs clothes that have all but scythed down the wheat from the chaff.
Elise Øverland’s collections mix Scandinavian charm with rock and roll edge.
Edward Finney enrolled in a fashion course at age 18 because he reasoned that he would be the only male in a room full of females.
Delia Covezzi has cultivated a solid reputation as one of the best womenswear and accessories designers since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2006.
Christian Cota’s interest in the decorative arts compelled him to move to Paris and study fine painting before he returned stateside to graduate from Parsons School of Design in 2005
Alice Palmer’s mother taught her “the ropes” in knitting at the age of six
