Word: menswear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone can change that, it's John Bartlett. The first American designer trained specifically in menswear who has attracted a significant following since Ralph Lauren, he's at the start of what critics and retailers are predicting will be a big, bold career. His sexy-but-cerebral aesthetic is catching on with customers outside his traditionally gay following. Already the plucky designs by this graduate of Harvard and the Fashion Institute of Technology have caught the eye of Italian manufacturing giant Genny Holdings SpA, which snapped up the 34-year-old Bartlett for a licensing deal last year after...
...anymore." Bartlett had the shoes custom-dyed in hues to match his suits. Hush Puppies, which claims it was already orchestrating a comeback, got a huge boost from his ideas. Bartlett's newest foray into shoes is a little less traditional. On the catwalk in last month's fall menswear show in Manhattan, models wore leather flip-flops with turned-up toes...
...with a boutique in one of Milan's historic shopping arcades. But since Prada and Bertelli united--in marriage and business--in 1987, they have turned a respectable business into fashion's most watched house. They added footwear, women's ready-to-wear, a younger collection called Miu Miu, menswear, underwear and sportswear. Prada's design sense has made her the most influential designer of the decade, with a ripple effect being felt as far down as the Gap. She has an exquisite offbeat sensibility, creating clothes that look simple, even plain, but are incredibly luxurious. Her first successful item...
TIES TO MATCH To raise funds for the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the Stonehenge menswear company turned some sketches, bottom, from sports celebrities (Jerry Rice, Dick Vitale, Lesley Visser, Joe Theismann and others) into tie patterns, top. Can you match the artist to the sketch to the pattern...
Though he won last year's Menswear Designer of the Year Award, no one mistakes him for a designer in the usual sense. He hires others for that chore and concentrates on image making--not for him the training rigors of the Parsons School (as Donna Karan endured) or the Fashion Institute (Calvin Klein). As a young retailer Hilfiger dreamed of founding an empire like Ralph Lauren's, and he adapted Lauren's strategy of selling a dream instead of a line of clothes. If Lauren offers the charmed world of Scott Fitzgerald to the masses, Hilfiger is selling...