Christian Louboutin & Blake Lively

Designer: Christian Louboutin 

Muse: Blake Lively

Christian Louboutin is a French footwear designer whose footwear has incorporated shiny, red-lacquered soles that have become his signature. He helped bring stilettos back into fashion in the 1990s and 2000s, designing dozens of styles with heel heights of 120mm and higher. The designer’s professed goal has been to “make a woman look sexy, beautiful, to make her legs look as long as he can.”

Blake Lively is an American actress and model who stars as Serena van der Woodsen in the television teen drama series Gossip Girl.

“She is not only beautiful, but also very talented girl. I really appreciate people with the education and intelligence. Blake has it all, plus she has a natural grace, that makes her incredible”.- Christian Louboutin

“His shoes are great, it is unbeatable and innovative. I have a lot of pairs of Christian’s shoes.”- says Blake.

Louboutin and Lively met during filming in Paris in the summer of 2010, when Blake looked into his shop for personally saying about her love for the creatures of shoemaker. A few months later they became a good friends. Christian sent her the whole latest spring collection of his shoes, which took them to the new level of their relationship. blake-lively-christian-louboutin-shoes-spring

It seems that the designer founded an ideal model to demonstrate his shoes,- well, and Lively clearly just happy to “walk” a new pair of the beautiful shoes in a daily regime.

Kate and Laura Mulleavy (Rodarte) & Elle Fanning

Designer:Kate and Laura Mulleavy (Rodarte).

Muse:Elle Fanning.

Rodarte is a brand of clothing and accessories founded by Kate and Laura Mulleavy. The Mulleavy sisters are UC Berkeley graduates from Aptos, California,and have received a number of industry awards since the line’s inception in 2005. The sisters have also collaborated with Gap and Target, on limited edition pieces.

After their initial collection of just 10 pieces, the Mulleavys appeared on the cover of Women’s Wear Daily and had a meeting with US Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the sisters behind the fashion label Rodarte. People have a difficult time telling the Mulleavy sisters apart. Both have glossy brown hair, dark eyes, and pale skin. Laura, who is twenty-nine, is thinner, with wavier hair and sharper features. Kate, who is thirty, has larger eyes and a rounder face. They do not attempt the six-inch heels they routinely send down the runway. Physical differences aside, the sisters act like a single organism. The designers have remained in Pasadena, far outside the fashion industry’s axes of influence, and until mid-2006, when they rented a studio in downtown Los Angeles, they designed from the kitchen table of their parents’ two-bedroom bungalow. And yet, in less than five years, Kate and Laura have become the most celebrated American designers working today.

Mary Elle Fanning (born April 9, 1998), credited as Elle Fanning, is an American actress and model. She is the younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning and mainly known for her starring roles in Phoebe in Wonderland and Somewhere.

 

Miuccia Prada & Women

Designer: Miuccia Prada.

Muse: Women.

 Miuccia Prada (born Miuccia Prada Bianchi 10 May 1949 in Milan,Italy.) is an Italian fashion designer (Prada, Miu Miu) and entrepreneur. She also has a Ph.D. in political science.

 After graduating with a PhD in political science Miuccia attended Teatro Piccolo to study and perform as a mime for five years. She was known to be a member of the Communist party and a champion for women’s rights during the seventies in Milan. In 1978 she entered into her family’s business of manufacturing luxury leather bags, a company established by her grandfather in 1913. Around the same time Miuccia met her now husband and business partner, Patrizio Bertelli.

In 1985, Miuccia had her first hit when she designed a line of black, finely woven nylon handbags that instantly became a hit. By 1989, Miuccia designed and introduced her first women’s ready-to-wear collection that was critically acclaimed; men’s wear followed in 1995.

 

Miuccia Prada and her husband Patrizio Bertelli

 

 

Miu Miu was introduced in 1992 as a less expensive women’s wear line that was inspired by Miuccia’s personal wardrobe and nickname. Miuccia was honored with the prestigious Council of Fashion Designers of American International Award in 1993. The following year she showed her collections in both New York’s and London’s fashion week, although she had already become a staple of Milan’s fashion week. Miuccia’s husband, Patrizio Bertelli, is still the predominant business force in the company who is responsible for the commercial side of products and Prada’s retail strategy.

The design house has grown into an international conglomerate that added labels such as Fendi, Helmut Lang, Jill Sander, and Azzedine Alaia to its portfolio of brands. Miuccia Prada is known for her understated, minimalist, classic, cool, and comfortable luxury. The company has expanded into leather goods, shoes, fragrances, and apparel for both men and women. Prada currently has about 250 stores in 65 countries.

Miuccia Prada

Miuccia Prada has no woman who embodies her brand — out of choice.

When asked about her muse, she tells Interview: “Everybody knows that I don’t have a muse. I’m not interested in that. When I talk with people, I don’t even see what they are wearing . . . No, I recognize it if it’s something particularly nice and interesting. I see the exception.”

Instead, it almost sounds as though Prada works as her own muse: “I would say there is no Prada woman. I’m interested in women in general. I don’t have any kind of preference. I do what I think is right.”

As for her main design goal? “Basically I’m trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.”

Prada Spring/Summer 2012 Collection

Nicola Formichetti and Lady Gaga

Designer: Nicola Formichetti

Muse: Lady Gaga

Nicola Formichetti is an internationally prolific fashion director and fashion editor of mixed Italian and Japanese heritage. He is most widely known as the new creative director for the French fashion house “Mugler”, as fashion director of Vogue Hommes Japan and for being a frequent collaborator with singer – songwriter and performance artist Lady Gaga.

 

Lady Gaga was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986 in New York City to parents Cynthia (née Bissett) and Joseph Germanotta, an Internet entrepreneur. Descending from Italian and more distant French-Canadianroots, Gaga is the elder of two children.Despite her seemingly affluent upbringing in the family home in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Gaga has stressed that she did not come from a wealthy background, stating that her parents “both came from lower-class families, so we’ve worked for everything—my mother worked eight to eight out of the house, in telecommunications, and so did my father.”

 

From the age of 11, Gaga – who was raised Roman Catholic – attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private all-girls Roman Catholic school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. She described her academic life in high school as “very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined” but also “a bit insecure”: “I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn’t fit in, and I felt like a freak.” Acquaintances dispute that she did not fit in at school. “She had a core group of friends; she was a good student. She liked boys a lot, but singing was No. 1,” recalled a former high school classmate.Gaga began playing the piano at the age of 4, went on to write her first piano ballad at 13.

 

His collaboration with Lady Gaga as her stylist, or more appropriately fashion director, began in early May 2009. Formichetti saying that “It was an instant love.” The following June he was the fashion director for her performance at the 2009 Much Music Video Awards. In late January 2010 he was stylist/fashion director for Lady Gaga’s music video “Telephone”. In 2011 after several months largely out of the spotlight (except on tour) Gaga returned in January 2011 to begin the serious promotion for her upcoming album “Born This Way” and Formichetti was fashion director for the project. 

He has also done Gaga’s styling  for her as spokesperson for the MAC VIVA GLAM Campaign of the MAC AIDS Fund. A new project called “The Masterpiece” has been announced in which Formichetti will collaborate with her for MAC to create a “wearable piece of art” composed of the profile photos of fans who join the campaign.

Jeremy Scott & Devon Aoki

Designer: Jeremy Scott 

Muse: Devon Aoki

Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer born in Kansas City, Missouri. Scott attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, for fashion design. He started his runway career in Paris and has since shown collections in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, London, Moscow and Seoul. He has built a reputation for outrageous designs favored by pop stars and celebrities.

Model and actress Devon Aoki, which has a Japanese, German andBritish roots, debuted on the runway in Paris during the show of Jeremy Scott. Since then she has managed to become not only his official muse, but also a close friend.

People, who closely follow the work of this designer will understand that the best model to demonstrate  Jeremy’s clothes is Devon Aoki  anyone else would be difficult to imagine. Despite the fact that her height is only about 165 centimeters, which is why designers always use her as a model for photo-shoots and not a runway model, Devon participated in all the Jeremy’s Scott shows.

Nicholas Ghesquière (Balenciaga) & Charlotte Gainsbourg

Designer: Nicholas Ghesquière.

Muse: Charlotte Gainsbourg.

At Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquière has forged a powerful bond with the French actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg. He unabashedly calls her his muse and for his latest fragrance, baptized l’Essence, he has turned to Ms. Gainsbourg to be the face of the perfume.

Now friends for more than ten years, Gainsbourg was already an influence on the designer decades before they were first introduced. As the daughter of the famous French singer Serge Gainsbourg and the actress and singer Jane Birkin (who was a muse in her own right inspiring the Hermes Birkin bag), Gainsbourg grew up in the public eye. Singing with her father and staring in films from an early age.

“She is a part of my personal history,” states Ghesquière. “We are born the same year. I grew up knowing Charlotte. She didn’t know me, of course, but I knew her, like every kid in France. So when I was in school, when I was growing up she was already kind of like a friend, in a very childish sort of way. And so when I finally met her I had the feeling that we had known each other forever.”Asked what it is about his muse that he loves in particular, Ghesquière has a hard time choosing only one aspect of the actress to highlight. From her non traditional beauty and challenging artistic choices to her low profile style and shy nature that have created a mystery about her, the affection the designer feels for his muse can be heard in his answer.

 

Charlotte Gainsbourg wearing Balenciaga

“When I design a collection there is always a moment when Charlotte comes to my mind,” says Ghesquière. “A lot of women are projecting on Charlotte because she has this eternal adolescence spirit and look. There is a real softness in Charlotte and there is a real strength too. She is not artificial.”

Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren (Viktor&Rolf) and Katherine Mathilda “Tilda” Swinton

Designers: Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren

Muse:  Katherine Mathilda “Tilda” Swinton

 

Viktor & Rolf is an Amsterdam-based fashion house. The company was founded in 1993 by designers Viktor Horsting (born 1969, Geldrop) and Rolf Snoeren (born 1969, Dongen).

 

Viktor and Rolf met while studying fashion at the Arnhem Academy of Art and Design in The Netherlands. They began working together upon graduation, relocating to Paris in 1993 to launch their careers.

While on the runway during the show “Viktor&Ralf 2003” which was dedicated to the tenth year of the brand, there was a Scottish actress  named Tilda Suiton, not many were surprised by her presence – rumors that the red-haired owner of the Oscar will be the new face of Victor&Rolf, came out a few months before.

The actress did not become the new face of the brand, but a show in which she participated, was remembered by many people in industry. Sarah Mower( one of the world’s foremost fashion journalists) even called it “A Parade of Tilda” – all 15 models that participated in the show, looked exactly like Swinton.

Frida Giannini (Gucci) & Florence Welch

Designer: Frida Giannini. (Gucci)

Muse: Florence Welch.

Frida Giannini ( born in Rome, 1972) is an Italian fashion designer and currently the Creative Director of the Italian fashion house Gucci. In 1997, she worked for Fendi to design ready-to-wear. After three seasons, she was promoted to designer of leather goods. In 2002, she joined Gucci as design director of handbags.In 2004, Giannini was appointed to head women’s accessories when Tom Ford departed the company. At the time, Gucci stores focused its inventory on the “GG” monogram canvas bag. Giannini attempted to change Gucci’s style from Tom Ford’s designs by drawing from Gucci’s heritage. Based on the 1960s Grace Kelly scarf, she developed the “Flora” collection of colorful bags. In 2006, Giannini was promoted to Creative Director for the entire Gucci label.Giannini continues to design from heritage. For example, the 2010 Winter Men’s line was noted for influences from Gucci’s equestrian history. However, Giannini says, “I don’t think it is a nostalgic collection, but heritage is good for me — going back to the archives, but looking forward to the future.”

Florence Leontine Mary Welch (born 28 August 1986) is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of Florence and the Machine, an English indie pop band, consisting of lead singer Florence Welch and a collaboration of other artists who provide backing music. The band’s music received praise across the music media, especially from the BBC, before they gained mainstream success. Specifically, the BBC played a large part in their rise to prominence by promoting Florence and the Machine as part of BBC Introducing.

The band’s debut album, Lungs, was released on 6 July 2009, and held the number-two position for its first five weeks on the UK Albums Chart.On 17 January 2010, the album reached the top position, after being on the chart for twenty-eight consecutive weeks.As of October 2010, the album had been in the top forty in the United Kingdom for sixty-five consecutive weeks, making it one of the best-selling albums of 2009 and 2010. The group’s second studio album, Ceremonials, released in October 2011, debuted at number one in the UK and number six in the US.

Florence and the Machine’s sound has been described as a combination of various genres, including rock and soul. Lungs won the MasterCard British Album award at the 2010 BRIT Award. At the 53rd Grammy Awards, Florence and the Machine were nominated for Best New Artist.

Giannini described  Welch as her inspiration for Gucci’s autumn-winter 2011 collection. “As I was imagining this collection I was thinking of a strong and somewhat mysterious muse. Florence is that kind of woman,” she explained. “She has a powerful personality and an entrancing quality to her performances. She also has that confident and self-assured look that goes hand in hand with the Gucci woman.” Soon after the collection was shown it was revealed that Gucci would design Florence’s stage outfits for her North American tour.

Marc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola

Designer: Marc Jacobs

Muse: Sofia Coppola

Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963) is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, with more than 200 retail stores in 80 countries. He has been the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton since 1997. Jacobs is on Time Magazine’s “2010 Time 100” list of the 100 most influential people in the world,and ranked 12th on Out Magazine’s 2011 list of “50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America”.

Sofia Carmina Coppola ( born May 14, 1971) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer and actress. In 2003, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation, and became the third woman (and first American woman) to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. In 2010, with Somewhere, she became the first American woman (and fourth American filmmaker) to win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival as born in New York City, New York, the youngest child and only daughter of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola and director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather and Apocalypse Now).

The love affair between Sofia and Marc is purely a fashionably platonic one, but that hardly matters. For years actor/director Sofia has served as Marc’s largest source of inspiration, and has watched intently from the front row as he has  become one of the most talented and covet designers in the world.

In 2002, fashion designer Marc Jacobs hand-picked the actress/director to be the face of his house’s fragrance. The campaign involved photographs of her shot by photographer Juergen Teller in his signature grainy style.

“Young and sweet and innocent and beautiful. The epitome of this girl I fantasize of.” Those were the words that Marc Jacobs once used when describing his close friend and longtime muse Sofia Coppola.

Domenico Dolce, Stefano Gabbana (Dolce & Gabbana) & Madonna

Designers: Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana.(Dolce & Gabbana)

Muse: Madonna.

 

Domenico Dolce was born on 13 September 1958 in Polizzi Generosa, Sicily. Stefano Gabbana was born on 14 November 1962 in Venice. The two met in Milano in 1980 and worked for the same fashion house. In 1982 they established a designer consulting studio. In time it grew to become “Dolce & Gabbana”. They presented their first women collection in 1985 in Milan, where a year later their store would open its doors.

 

 

“Madonna – our friend, our admiration, our inspiration.” said Domenico and Stefano.
Long time ago, when Domenico and Stefano were modest young designers, an interesting story has happened to them. They were browse a glossy magazines until one of them suddenly came across a picture of Madonna in the gossip section. The pop-queen had an outfit from a new collection of  the designers duo. Today it is  something common, but at that time Dolce & Gabbana were unknown. They  worshiped  Madonna and thought that working with her is unbelievable and quite out of reach.

 

Soon Madonna personally asked Dolce and Gabbana to create the costumes for her concert tour «The Girly Show». Since then, Madonna and the Italian designers  became close friends, and 17 years later the pop queen has become the “face” of their new spring-summer collection, and co-author of a line of sunglasses.