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The iconic and often controversial British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has celebrated her 70th birthday this week.
After a career spanning nearly forty years, the flame-haired, punk-inspired designer is still going strong. Westwood’s empowering clothes – plus signature tartan pieces - are still as popular as ever, inspiring new trends and stirring up some much-needed controversy [...]

The next designer profile is on Thomas Burberry. Before i start, everyone knows that unfortunately, Burberry is more popular with the chavs and they have given it a bad name, so check out this video clip, it’s quite funny..

Who: Thomas Burberry, born in 1835.
How it all started: Burberry was first founded when Thomas was 21 [...]

Who: Vivienne Isabel Swire (now Dame), born in 1941 in Tintwistle, Cheshire.
How it all started: Vivienne  started off her career as a primary school teacher at a school in North London. Vivienne fell in love, and married her first husband Derek Westwood, to whom she had a child with. Sadly the marriage only lasted 3 [...]

After giving people the chance to vote for which designer they would like to find out more about, Christian Dior came out top, so, here you go….

Who: Christian Dior, born in January 1905 in Granville, France.
How it all started: Dior started his life by attending the ‘Ecole des Sciences Politiques’, this was due to his [...]

You may always hear about these fantastic fashion designers who are taking the industry by storm, you may even own a garment designed by them, but do you actually know anything about the designer? Well, every week i will give you an overview on how the designer started and also how they become one of [...]