German company of women’s clothing. It was established in 1976 by Margaretha and Wolfgang Ley and named after a famous thoroughbred. The headquarters is in Munich. During the 1980s, new offices were opened in London, Milan, Canada, Japan, and France.…

French school for fashion and design. Its graduates include designers such as Thierry Mugler, Hechter, José Lévy, and Mariot Chanet. Established in Paris in 1841, today this private school has about ten education centers all over France. It has an…

Historic griffe for underwear and linens. It was named after its founder. All through the 1970s, Emilia Bellini represented “the best” for underwear and linens that were “made in Florence.” In Summer 1952, she participated in the first presentation of…

A haircut worn by students at Eton, the boys’ boarding school founded as a college by Henry VI in 1440. It is characterized by short, straight hair worn above the ears, and was copied in the 1920s and 1930s as…

American brand of high-fashion costume jewellery. It was created in New York in 1983 based on an idea of Karen Erickson and Vicki Sarge (1954): to manufacture handcrafted costume jewellery of very high quality following the latest women’s fashions. The…

Jacques. Business name of Charles Henri Martin (1917-1974). He made his début in fashion after being the president of a foundry in St. Etienne and the director of an import-export company. In 1950, in Cannes, he met Zizi and Louis…

Green Brand of shoes named after the artisan who in 1891 started to produce hand-made shoes for English gentlemen in a small factory in Northampton. In short, he made himself famous as a master shoemaker capable of producing the best…

Umberto Eco (1932). Scholar, writer and essayist. His interests range from medieval aesthetics (he received a degree in philosophy in Turin in 1954, with a thesis on St. Thomas Aquinas), to avant-guard art, including the formulation of a coherent theory…

Japanese manufacturer of jeans, established in Tokyo in 1969. Due to increased specialization in denim products, it soon became one of the leaders in the Japanese market. It is part of the purist vintage tradition which established itself in the…

Udo Edling (1965). Designer of Romanian origin. In 1981, he left Romania for Germany, where he worked as an assistant in an advertising agency in Frankfurt. In 1987, he moved to France, where his actual career began. From 1991 to…