Lucien Vogel (1886-1954). French illustrator, journalist, publisher. He was the artistic director di Fémina. Together with Michel de Brunhoff, he founded, in 1912, La Gazette du Bon Ton. It is to his credit that fashion periodicals began to use artists…

Roberto Verino (1945). Spanish fashion designer. He was born in VerÕn in Ourense, where his parents owned a company that manufactured articles of leather goods. After finishing his business studies, he decided to move to Paris to follow his dream…

(Italian variant, veletta, is derived from veil, but is a feminine diminutive that accurately conveys the delicacy of what English can only attempt to identify as a “hat-veil.” The Italian term almost equals in grace the evanescent, brief span of…

Joan Vass (1925). American fashion designer, especially of knitwear. Her best known creations are made of chenille, alpaca and angora. After working for ten years as the curator of the department of prints at the Metropolitan Museum in New York,…

Julie Verhoeven (1969). Artist and designer whose talent ranges from fashion to design and art direction. After an early experience as assistant to John Galliano in London, she was a design consultant for Martine Sitbon. Later, for the Spring-Summer 2002…

Diana Vreeland (1903-1989). American journalist. Diana Dalziel was born and raised in Paris at the turn of the century by very sociable American parents. She married Reed Vreeland, a American banker with whom she had two children. They spent the…

Henry Van De Velde (1863-1957). Belgian painter and designer. Protagonist of the Art Nouveau movement. He designed and made, with his wife Maria Séte, avant-garde outfits decorated with syntethic linear motifs in a “dynamic graphic style.” In 1900, he published…

More commonly known as a beauty case. A travel bag that contains toiletry items. Such an object has existed since the nineteenth century, when it was very voluminous, with internal compartments that contained crystal and silver bottles, brushes and combs,…

Francesco Vezzoli (1971). Fashion designer, an expert on embroidery and arte povera. He was a pupil of Alighiero Boetti. The techniques of petit-point embroidery and the art of pillow lace were the foundations of his artistic research. A revival, in…

Roger Vivier (1907-1998). French designer of footwear. “The secret,” he once said, “is to discover the age-old forms and then reinterpret them in the light of the present-day, with the improvements required by our more frantic gait, a less formal…