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Karl Lagerfeld

Born to wealthy parents and immense privilege, at the age of four little Karl demanded his own personal valet so that his underwear could be heated before he slipped it on each morning. Well, he did live in a mansion in chilly Hamburg. He moved to Paris as a teenager and worked for several designers before setting up shop backed by family dosh. Not before he had consulted Madame Zereakian - Christian Dior's Turkish fortuneteller - who told him he would find success in fashion and perfume. This outspoken workaholic with a voracious appetite for books recently shed six stone in order to wear Hedi Slimane drainpipes. You could say he was as mad for fashion as it is for him. Or you could say he is simply mad. Although financial wizards behind the privately owned house of Chanel might disagree. There is nothing mad about generating a $500m dollar turnover even if it does mean teaming Coco's twinset and pearls with biker boots, headphones and wellies.

Dame Vivienne Westwood

Love or hate her, no other designer comes close to Dame Viv when it comes to influencing fashion trends over the past three decades. Being eccentric and operating entirely in her own sphere, at her own whim has resulted in both bizarre and brilliant new dress codes which have revolutionized modern clothing. She talks in riddles, sometimes reciting 17th century poetry or sounding off about world politics. She wears whatever are her current creations, from fetish rubber to sheer body stockings, even when meeting the Queen. Her catwalk shows set out to shock and yet her softly spoken Derbyshire accent sounds like your quaint old auntie. Without her madness who knows what we may be wearing today, certainly not trainers, Lycra leggings (as daywear), underwear as outerwear, layers, hoodies, punk, pirate captain jackets or English hunting apparel. Everyone laughed when Westwood rescued Harris Tweed from imminent disaster. Until Dolce, Gabbana and the rest of them followed suit.

John Galliano

There are designers. There are Paris-based designers. There are Paris catwalk shows and there's Dior designed by John Galliano. No surprises the man behind these extraordinary clothes is a little, dare we say, special himself. A star ever since he first graduated from Central St Martins in 1984. What's even more exciting than his wild creations is what the theatrical fashion wizard will wear to take his bow. No one pulls off bonkers quite like Galliano. As with Vivienne Westwood, Galliano looks to no particular current trends for inspiration preferring to plunder costume archives and history books. The result which first electrified the eighties fashion scene is still causing reverberations two decades later. Romantic and outrageous are his trademarks. It takes an unusual mind to dream up his eye-catching fashions. It takes a genius like Galliano to turn around a flagging French fashion house and make it one of the most successful luxury brands on the planet - helped by sales of accessories, perfumes, make-up and an eccentric Brit at it's helm

Anna Piaggi

She might look like a little old bag lady to you or I but look beyond the (lopsided) Stephen Jones' Dior hat and shock of Prussian blue hair and what you see is the most important women on planet fashion. Manolo Blahnik calls her, "The world's last great authority on frocks." She is also a voracious writer, stylist, networker and fashionista who has been responsible for promoting/discovering many photographers, designers and models over the years. Despite being in her sixties, she still dresses in the same eclectic mix and match style that befits one of the greatest collectors of 20th century fashion. In 2006, the Victoria And Albert Museum in London staged an exhibition of her wardrobe, which featured a smattering of every designer worthy of a mention in the last 50 years. What a show! Anna claims to have never appeared in the same outfit more than once in public and never travels without at least six trunks of clothes. That's fashion for you dahling!

Paco Rabanne

Most famous for his pioneering use of radical materials including chain mail and plastic around the time of the moon landing in 1969, ‘Wacko' Paco, who trained at Balenciaga, Givenchy and Dior, catapulted Sixties Sci-Fi into fashion. He made headlines just before the millennium (wrongly) predicting Paris would be destroyed, and 24 million people killed, by an atomic bomb on board the Mir space station. Happily, he has proved to be a better couturier than philosopher and fashionwise his legacy of space age chic is still be referenced. As well as putting man-made textiles - previously unheard of - in haute couture he also was considered outrageous and a rebel for pioneering ‘unisex' perfumes for women and men. A strong believer in reincarnation, he claims to have murdered Egyptian King Tutankhamen and to have been killed by an Englishman during the battle of the Spanish Armada.

Isabella Blow

This fashion stylist and muse was born into the rarified English aristocracy, which could account for her peculiarity? A talent spotter who collected protégés from both ends of the social class ladder, she discovered Alexander McQueen, the son of an East End London cabbie as well as several blue-blooded debutante types such as Stella Tennant, Iris Palmer and most famously Sophie Dahl (whom she described as "a blow-up doll with brains", who thanks to dizzy ‘Izzy' became successful models. Her trademark five-inch heels, blood red lipstick and quirky hats (which also put Irish milliner Philip Treacy on the fashion radar), made it hip to dress up in the dress-down Blair decade. A fabulous front row fixture at fashion shows wearing full-on evening couture at 9am, she was famous for nutty aunt outbursts and making the fashion industry a fun place to work in. A fashion editor at Vogue, The Sunday Times and Tatler, she sadly took her own life by drinking deadly weedkiller, paraquat, in May 2007.

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Patricia Field

A fashion guru who knows the fashion industry back to front, Field is one of the most in-demand stylists and costumiers of her age. As costume designer for Sex And The City, she created the biggest fashion icon of our times, Carrie Bradshaw, which simultaneously shot her to international acclaim. Many of Carrie and co's clothes were in fact borrowed from Field's vintage shop in New York, which dates back to 1966. She also created costumes for The Devil Wears Prada and Ugly Betty and recently came up with a Sex And The City collection inspired by Carrie's eclectic clothes dreamt up by Field for Marks & Spencer. (Oh come on, you must have seen that red floral peplum dress, it's everywhere.) Field is a familiar sight perched front row at international designer catwalk shows (when she's not backstage styling them). This flame-haired eccentric might look like a nutter but clearly knows the next big thing before anyone else.

Marie Antoinette

The frivolous, fashion-crazy French Queen married Louis XVI when she was just 14. From the start Marie Antoinette got on the wrong side of the sophisticated French Court at the famous Palace of Versailles and up the noses of the people of France. Hailing from Austria she was already seen as a foreigner not to be trusted. Her fate was sealed when she refused to wear the heavy make-up of the Court or wide-hooped panniers and set about creating a party lifestyle to distract her from dull Royal life. Her flamboyant tendencies weren't confined to her wardrobe either. She built a tiny village complete with farms and sheep to remind her of rustic times at a time when many French people were in fact starving. She is famously attributed with saying, "Let them eat cake," when asked how the nation should cope. As more people got wind of her trivial and expensive pastimes she got the chop. Literally. She was guillotined at the height of the French Revolution in 1793.

Diana Vreeland

The first truly modern fashionista, Diana (pronounced Dee-Ann) broke the rules of what was considered fashionable and brought trends to the masses. Before Vreeland, fashion was demure, created by socialites exclusively for socialites. After her it went crazy mad. Vreeland was considered bonkers for showcasing clothes and trends every modern woman could aspire to, from shoes with chains on, to the bikini. She chose outrageous new models and photographers like David Bailey and put them together in daring locations like India and Africa. Her career began on the American magazine, Harper's Bazaar, in 1936 with her column Why Don't You? in which she suggested dotty themes like, "Why don't you wear violet velvet mittens with everything?" And why not? She was fashion editor of the magazine until she joined American Vogue as editor-in-chief in 1963. She was fired eight years later for refusing to cut her lavish budget and became a consultant at the Costume Institute at New York's Museum of Modern Art until her death in 1989.

'Little ' Edie Beale

Designers like Philip Lim, John Galliano and Marc Jacobs frequently reference the rather tragic New York socialite, Edie Bouvier Beale. This stylish beauty partied in rarified Upper East side circles throughout the 1930s and her cousin was Jackie O. Her fabulous fashion eccentricity revs up in the latter part of her life, broke and living with her mother, ‘Big" Edie in a crumbling mansion in East Hampton, known as Grey Gardens. Mother and daughter became unlikely stars of a documentary in 1971, when they were discovered cut off from the outside world still wearing threadbare couture, despite living in a house infested with raccoons and mountains of junk. Not even selling off Tiffany pieces had saved them from a life of abject poverty. Little Edie spent her days creating fashion fantasies, glamming-up in bizarre and quirky ensembles from her glory years. Her jumpers as skirts, tops as capes, swimming costumes as eveningwear and turbans with everything will be revealed in a new film starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lang.

iice:

ahahahahahaha. I'l send you my biography

Sure babes, make sure you send pictures of you wearing nothing but toe socks too!

Moyola:

wtz on her head?

Why, a fancy hat of course!

iice:



Don't know why you don't like my toe socks

Gloves on your feet? Why the heck not?