WWD's 100 influential designers
November 14, 2010, Sunday
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FROM Adolfo to Yohji Yamamoto, Women's Wear Daily has recorded the A to Z of fashion over the past 100 years. There are the suffragettes, flappers, career women in pantsuits and, later, miniskirts.
Fashion is an industry that's always on the hunt for the next big thing. Yet, in researching a new book about a century of style, "WWD 100 Years, 100 Designers," executive editor Bridget Foley found some constants.
"So many designers, when they talk about their work talk about women first," Foley says. "There's an idea and a belief among the very best designers that you have to push forward, but also that you also always have to consider what women will wear."
For all the declarations of trends, including hemlines, silhouettes and embellishments, Foley finds that most garments - be they skinny jeans or pencil skirts - are consistently available year after year, even when they're not winning headlines.
And, she adds, however modern and urban we like to think black is, women have been wearing it - regularly - since the 1920s.
The power of buzz has been around even longer.
Some of the designers included in the book were chosen because they literally changed the shape of fashion: Paul Poiret, Claire McCardell and Christian Dior, among them. But someone such as Gabrielle Chanel (known, of course, as Coco) really created an entire culture around a brand.
Winnowing down this list of most influential designers to 100 was harder than it sounds, especially balancing new talent like Jason Wu against Dior and Oscar de la Renta, Foley says.
"Is this all good fashion?" she wonders. "I'm not sure it's all good fashion, but it's all representative fashion, and much of it is really good."
Other familiar names include Giorgio Armani, Donna Karan and both Gianni and Donatella Versace.
Fashion is an industry that's always on the hunt for the next big thing. Yet, in researching a new book about a century of style, "WWD 100 Years, 100 Designers," executive editor Bridget Foley found some constants.
"So many designers, when they talk about their work talk about women first," Foley says. "There's an idea and a belief among the very best designers that you have to push forward, but also that you also always have to consider what women will wear."
For all the declarations of trends, including hemlines, silhouettes and embellishments, Foley finds that most garments - be they skinny jeans or pencil skirts - are consistently available year after year, even when they're not winning headlines.
And, she adds, however modern and urban we like to think black is, women have been wearing it - regularly - since the 1920s.
The power of buzz has been around even longer.
Some of the designers included in the book were chosen because they literally changed the shape of fashion: Paul Poiret, Claire McCardell and Christian Dior, among them. But someone such as Gabrielle Chanel (known, of course, as Coco) really created an entire culture around a brand.
Winnowing down this list of most influential designers to 100 was harder than it sounds, especially balancing new talent like Jason Wu against Dior and Oscar de la Renta, Foley says.
"Is this all good fashion?" she wonders. "I'm not sure it's all good fashion, but it's all representative fashion, and much of it is really good."
Other familiar names include Giorgio Armani, Donna Karan and both Gianni and Donatella Versace.
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