Born: Athens, Greece, 197 Died: London, England 2019 Sophia Kokosalaki moved to London after completing a degree in Greek and English Literature. With the desire to pursue fashion, Kokosalaki enrolled
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Born: Athens, Greece, 1972 Died: Paris, France, 2016 At the age of seventeen Sonia Rykiel’s fashion interest began when she was hired to dress window displays in a Parisian textile
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Born: Cheshire, England, 1974 Educated in Manchester, Sarah Burton studied for an art foundation course at Manchester Polytechnic. Burton then enrolled at Central Saint Martins studying Print Fashion. On the
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Born: Bonito, Italy, 1898 Died: Fiumetto, Italy, 1960 Salavtore Ferragamo, the eleventh of fourteen children started his passion for shoes at an early age. Making his first pair of shoes
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Born: Castelbolognese, Italy, 1949 Romeo Gigli’s childhood was immersed in art history and antiquarian books thanks to his father and grandfather’s profession selling books. He originally trained as an architect
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