The Belle

Christy Turlington Burns (born January 2, 1969) is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007. She has worked on dozens of modeling contracts with companies including Maybelline Cosmetics and Versace. Turlington starred in her fashion documentary Catwalk andIsaac Mizrahi's Unzipped.

The Master Balenciaga

Balenciaga is a fashion house founded by Cristóbal Balenciaga, a Spanish designer, born in the Basque Country, Spain. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as "the master of us all" by Christian Dior. His bubble skirts and odd, feminine, yet ultra-modern shapes were trademarks of the house. The house of Balenciaga is now owned by the French multinational company PPR

The New Blood

How does a skinny, 6-foot-1, 21-year-old who lives with his grandparents in St. Albans, Queens, go from sneaking into fashion shows to showing his own runway collection tomorrow?

The answer is a classic New York City tale of a little hustle and a lot of talent.

In the past year, LaQuan Smith has created custom pieces for the likes of Lady Gaga and Rihanna, but he's been making clothes since he got a sewing machine for Christmas when he was 13.

"My friends were all getting PlayStations and I wanted a machine and fabric," says Smith, adding, "I don't think I chose fashion, fashion chose me."

After graduating high school and being rejected by FIT twice, Smith decided to forgo college to try to break into the fashion world. He got his foot in the door scoring an internship with BlackBook magazine, working for fashion editor Elizabeth Sulcer.

The Mad Scientist

Hussein Chalayan (born 1970) is a British/Turkish Cypriot fashion designer who graduated from Central Saint Martins in 1993. Hussein Chalayan was born in Nicosia in 1970 and graduated from the Turkish Maarif College of his hometown. He moved with his family to England in 1978, obtaining British citizenship. He first studied for a National Diploma in fashion and clothing at Warwickshire School of Arts, and proceeded to study Fashion Design atCentral Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. His graduate collection in 1993, titled "The Tangent Flows", contained clothes which he had buried in his back yard and dug up again. An instant sensation, the whole collection was purchased and displayed in luxury designer store Browns in London.

Kell On Earth

Kelly Cutrone (born November 13, 1965) is a fashion publicist and the founder of the public relations, branding and marketing firm People's Revolution. Kelly now stars in her own reality drama Kell on Earth. Kelly Cutrone is from Camillus, a small town in upstate New York. She moved to New York City, where she got her start in public relations, when she was just 21 years of age. Before starting her own public relations firm with Jason Weinberg, Cutrone and Weignberg, in the early 90s, Kelly worked for a stint at Susan Blond, Inc. and as the public relations director of Spin magazine. Kelly ultimately left Cutrone and Weignberg, which is now Untitled Entertainment, and took some time off from public relations before starting People’s Revolution in 1996. People’s Revolution is a fashion public relations, marketing and branding firm that has represented brands such as Longchamp, Vivienne Westwood, Valentino, Jeremy Scott, Paco Rabanne, Thierry Mugler, Bulgari, Christie's, Agent Provocateur, and Alexandre Herchcovitch. “The company occupies three floors of a building on Grand Street in Soho, and Ms. Cutrone lives in a spacious loft in the same building with her 6-year-old daughter, Ava.”

At 24, she married Andy Warhol’s protégé Ronnie Cutrone, who is a pop artist best known for his large-scale paintings of America’s favorite cartoon characters. After her second marriage, Kelly had a brief love affair with Ilario Calvo, the father of her child, whom she met in Paris.

Creativity Behind Vogue: Grace Coddington

Grace Coddington (born 1941) is a former model and the creative director of American Vogue magazine.

The Eye Behind The Lens: Annie

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer. In high school, she became interested in various artistic endeavours, and began to write and play music. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied painting. There she learnt all her skills from her teacher Sasha Michelle, who Annie says she owes a lot of her career to. When Leibovitz returned to the United States in 1970, she started her career as staff photographer, working for the just launched Rolling Stone magazine. In 1973, publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of Rolling Stone, a job she would hold for 10 years. Leibovitz worked for the magazine until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stonelook. While working for Rolling Stone, Leibovitz became more aware of the other magazines. Richard Avedon's portraits were an important and powerful example in her life. She learned that you can work for magazines and still do your own personal work, which for her was the most important thing. It is much more intimate and tells a story for her as she works with people who love her and who will "Open their hearts and souls and lives to you." 

The Fairy GodMother

Eleanor Lambert Berkson (August 10, 1903 – October 7, 2003) was a U.S. fashion pioneer who established the International Best Dressed List in 1940. She was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana and died in New York City. She was an innovator who esthablished many important changes for the fashion industry including the creation of the Council of Fashion Designers of America

Lady In Red

Diana Vreeland (July 29, 1903, Paris, France – August 22, 1989, New York City) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Born as Diana Dalziel, Vreeland was the eldest daughter of American socialite mother Emily Key Hoffman and British father Frederick Young Dalziel. Hoffman was a descendant of George Washington's brother as well as a cousin of Francis Scott Key. She also was a distant cousin of Pauline de Rothschild. Vreeland had one sister, Alexandra.

The Man Behind The Legend

Pierre Bergé (born November 14, 1930) is a French industrialist and patron. He is perhaps best known as the co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent Couture House and former partner of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent

History by Valerie Steele

Valerie Fahnestock Steele (born 1955) is a fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. She was appointed director of the museum in 2003

Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian ( March 7, 1872 – February 1, 1944), was a Dutch painter.

He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neo-Plasticism. This consisted of white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.

Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami (村上 隆 Murakami Takashi^?, born in Tokyo), is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist who works in both fine arts media—such as painting—as well as digital and commercial media. He blurs the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, "Superflat" paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies

What's Popping? Knits

Popcorn Stitch is similar to but different from making bobbles on your knit fabric. Popcorn stitches actually take two rows to complete, with the increase on one row and the decrease on the next.

Anti Chic

Rei Kawakubo (born 11th October 1942 in Tokyo) is a Japanese fashion designer, founder of Comme des Garçons.

She is untrained as a fashion designer, but studied fine arts and literature at Keio University. After graduation, Kawakubo worked in a textile company and began working as a freelance stylist in 1967.

In 1973, she established her own company, Comme des Garçons Co. Ltd in Tokyo and opened up her first boutique in Tokyo in 1975. Starting out with women's clothes, Kawakubo added a men's line in 1978. Three years later, she started presenting her fashion lines in Paris each season, opening up a boutique in Paris in 1982.

Comme des Garçons specialises in anti-fashion, austere, sometimes deconstructed garments. During the 1980s, her garments were primarily in black, dark grey or white. The materials were often draped around the body and featured frayed, unfinished edges along with holes and a general asymmetrical shape. Challenging the established notions of beauty she created an uproar at her debut Paris fashion show where journalists labeled her clothes 'Hiroshima chic' amongst other things. Since the late 1980s her colour palette has grown somewhat.

Concentration Camp Auschwitz

Auschwitz (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz [ˈaʊʃvɪts]  ( listen)) was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated inPolish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. It was the largest of the German concentration camps, consisting of Auschwitz I (the Stammlager or base camp); Auschwitz II-Birkenau (the Vernichtungslager or extermination camp); Auschwitz III-Monowitz, also known as Buna-Monowitz (a labor camp); and 45 satellite camps.^[1]

Auschwitz is the German name for Oświęcim, the town in and around which the camps were located; it was renamed by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939. Birkenau, the German translation of Brzezinka (birch tree), refers to a small Polish village nearby that was mostly destroyed by the Germans to make way for the camp.

Auschwitz II-Birkenau was designated by Heinrich Himmler, who was the Reichsführer and Germany's Minister of the Interior, as the place of the "final solution of the Jewish question in Europe". From spring 1942 until the fall of 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all overNazi-occupied Europe.^[2] The camp's first commandant, Rudolf Höss, testified after the war at the Nuremberg Trials that up to three million people had died there (2.5 million gassed, and 500,000 from disease and starvation),^[3] a figure since revised to 1.1 million, around 90 percent of them Jews.^[4] Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Roma and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and tens of thousands of people of diverse nationalities.^[5] Those not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, forced labor, lack of disease control, individual executions, and medical experiments.^[6]

On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, which by 1994 had seen 22 million visitors—700,000 annually—pass through the iron gates crowned with the infamous motto, Arbeit macht frei ("work makes you free").

Timeless Christian Dior

Christian Dior (21 January 1905, Granville, Manche – 23 October 1957, Montecatini), was an influential French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior.

Best In Show John Galliano

Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano-Guillén,^[1] CBE, RDI (born 28 November 1960), professionally known as John Galliano, is a British fashion designer who was head designer of French haute couture houses Givenchy (July 1995 to October 1996) and Christian Dior (October 1996 to March 2011).

British Fashion Writer & Journalist Colin McDowell

Colin McDowell is a British fashion writer, journalist and academic. As senior fashion writer for The Sunday Times, in the 1990s and 2000s he became a familiar sight in the front row of fashion shows along with his contemporaries Anna Wintour and Suzy Menkes. He is the author of some 20 books on fashion and designers, including McDowell’s Directory of 20th Century Fashion. In 2008 he was appointed Member of the British Empire (MBE) for services to fashion.

Fashion Journalist Robin Givhan

Robin Givhan (born 1965) is the former fashion editor for The Washington Post. She left The Washington Post in 2010 and is is now the fashion critic and fashion correspondent for The Daily Beastand News Week. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, the first such time for a fashion writer. The Pulitzer Committee explained its rationale by noting Givhan's "witty, closely observed essays that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism."

Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld (born Karl Otto Lagerfeldt on September 10, 1933 in Hamburg) is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris,France. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion houseChanel. Lagerfeld helms his own label fashion house, as well as the Italian house Fendi.