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Erreuno
Company established in 1970 by Ermanno and Graziella Ronchi, before they were married. The story starts in a basement on via Segantini in Milan, very far from the traditional streets of fashion. Ermanno was 23 and a clothing salesman. Graziella…
Etzdorf
Etzdorf (von) Georgina (1955). Fabric designer, born in Lima, Peru. In 1981, she established, along with two business partners, Martin Simcock and Jonathan Docherty, a company under her own name, producing highly decorative fabrics for fashion, ready-to wear, high fashion,…
Eula
Joe. English illustrator and costume designer. During the 1950s, her drawings in the Herald Tribune accompanied articles by Eugénia Sheppard, a pseudonymous byline covering fashion. Later, she worked with the journalist Ernestine Carter of the Sunday Times. She also worked…
Elvstrom
Line of sportswear created in 1975 by two friends with a passion for sailing, Beppe Croce and Paul Elvstrom. At first, the seal of quality for the products, which were rigorously hi-tech, was provided by the continuous sailing victories of…
Erès
French brand of bathing suits. Created in the mid 1960s by Irene Leroux, its success has steadily increased thanks to spontaneous testimonials from stars of show business and fashion who prefer Erès products because of their cut, quality manufacture, palette…
Erotokritos
Antoniadis Erotokritos (1967). Greek designer. He was born in Cyprus, where he still designs the largest part of his collections. The son of a winery owner and a manager of an art gallery, he studied art in San Francisco and…
E2
Behind this brand are the creative minds of Michèle and Olivier Chatenet, both of them French, work partners and life partners. After founding the Mariot Chalet brand together in the 1980s, they ended their working partnership, with Michèle hired by…
Ecko
American company making urban clothing and sportswear. It was established in 1993 by Marc Ecko, one of the most important figures in the spread of hip-hop fashion among young people. That fashion came out of Afro-American neighborhoods in New York…
Everest
Timothy Everest (1961). English tailor. Born in Southampton, he opened his men’s tailoring shop in London in 1991, after working with Tommy Nutter and Malcolm Levine. A great supporter of the British tailoring tradition, he offered old fashioned hand-made suits,…
El Charro
Italian brand known especially for leather goods. It had a good piece of the market in the 1980s, offering a country-western urban style with echoes of the Native American Indians: boots, belts with big buckles, jeans decorated with glass beads,…