Fashion Designers A–Z. Updated 2020 Edition

Suzy Menkes, an undisputed grande dame of the fashion world, is the international editor at Condé Nast International. Her contributions appear on the websites of 23 international Vogue editions in 16 languages. She is also one of the leading influencers on Instagram. As one of the most influential fashion critics in the world, she has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and a Knight of the French Legion of Honor. She lives and works in London and Paris. Robert Nippoldt is an illustrator and book designer. He gained wider recognition through various publications and stage programs about the 1920s, as well as drawings for The New Yorker and Time Magazine. He has received more than two dozen awards, including those from the Art Directors Club in New York and the International Design Award in Los Angeles. Colleen Hill is a curator of costumes and accessories at the Museum at FIT in New York. She has curated more than a dozen exhibitions, including Paris Refashioned, 1957-1968 and Fairy Tale Fashion, published six books on fashion as an author or co-author, and contributed to numerous other publications. Valerie Steele is the director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and the editor of the journal Fashion Theory. Steele, regarded by the Washington Post as one of the "most intellectual women in the fashion world" and by Suzy Menkes as the "Freud of fashion," possesses the rare ability to convey her profound academic knowledge in an accessible manner. As an author, curator, journalist, and media-savvy intellectual, she has significantly contributed to the emergence of the still-young field of Fashion Studies.