Fashion Designers by Designer Name

In this section of the apparel industry directory you will find many of the world's most famous fashion designers. In addition to the seasoned veterans, a few up-and-comers that are worth mentioning are included as well. The guide provides easy access to fashion designer collections, fashion news, collection photos, runway videos, fashion blog posts, fashion week reporting, and much more. The index links directly below divide the directory by name — the full alphabetical list, and the three ranges A-H, I-P and Q-Z.

Fashion designers are interesting creatures, to say the least. They are often considered to be creative, fascinating, and innovative — however, some of them are a bit egotistical and temperamental as well. Combining the good and the bad, designers are special indeed. In this section, various fashion designers believed to be of interest to the fashion industry are presented, and the preview below shows a few of the popular designers reviewed in the directory.

Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not this designer's own garments.

A Preview of the Directory

The names run from Alexander McQueen, Alexander Wang, Anna Sui and Bill Blass through Calvin Klein, Carolina Herrera, Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Christian Louboutin and Coco Chanel, to Daniel Hechter, David Holah, Dirk Bikkembergs, Dolce & Gabbana, Donatella Versace and Donna Karan. The E and F letters bring Elsa Peretti, Elsa Schiaparelli, Emanuel Ungaro, Emilio Pucci, Ermenegildo Zegna and Felipe Oliveira Baptista; the G section opens with Geoffrey Beene, Gianni Versace and Gianfranco Ferre, and continues through Giorgio Armani, Gloria Vanderbilt and on to Karl Lagerfeld, Kate Spade, Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors and beyond. Each name in the preview is linked from the range pages to its own guide pages.

Reading their biographies and viewing images of their previous fashion collections is the directory's purpose: a designer is best understood as a record — the life on the profiles pages, the clothes on the collections pages, the shows on the runway pages, and the coverage on the news pages — and every designer with a series in this guide is filed in exactly that form.

How the Name Directory Works

The directory is organized by designer name and divided for browsing into an alphabetical index and three letter ranges — A-H, I-P and Q-Z — each on its own page and each carrying the series block below so any range can be reached from any other. Within a range page, the individual letter directories lead to each designer's pages. Readers who know the designer they want can go straight to the range; readers browsing can start with the alphabetical index and follow a name wherever it leads.

For designers as a profession rather than as names — the design process, manufacturing and the supporting trades — the fashion designer resources page is linked in the references. For the directory arranged by first name within the designer section itself, the per-letter designer list pages are also linked there.

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