Who is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label, who's work was worn by Icelandic musician Björk?
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Greatest Hits Tour (Björk) The Greatest Hits Tour was the fifth worldwide concert tour by Icelandic musician Björk. It was launched in support of the release of her "Greatest Hits" album, her box set "Family Tree", and to coincide with the release of her "Live Box" collection. The tour was supposed to take place one year earlier, but it was delayed as Björk gave birth to her daughter. The first dates of the tour were announced just two months after the birth. The tour kicked off with two shows in London on May 24, 2003, and ended with a rescheduled performance in Toronto on September 3, 2003. The tour visited Europe, Asia and North America with 28 shows in total. Björk wore outfits and creations from Jeremy Scott, Alexander McQueen and Shoplifter.
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Alexander McQueen Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen committed suicide in 2010, at the age of forty, at his home in Mayfair, London.
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Tommy Hilfiger (company) Tommy Hilfiger, formerly known as Tommy Hilfiger Corporation and Tommy Hilfiger Inc., is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures upper market apparel for men, women and children, and a wide range of licensed products such as footwear, accessories, fragrances and home furnishings. The company was founded in 1985, and today is sold in department stores and over 1400 free-standing retail stores in 90 countries. In 2006, private equity firm Apax Partners acquired Tommy Hilfiger for approximately 1.6 billion, and in May 2010, PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH) (then known as Philips van Heusen) bought the company. Daniel Grieder was appointed CEO in July 2014, while founder Tommy Hilfiger remains the company’s principal designer, leading the design teams and overseeing the entire creative process. Global sales in retail through the brand in 2013 were US $6.4 billion, and $6.7 billion in 2014.
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Christopher McDonnell Christopher McDonnell is a British fashion designer who operated in the UK between the 1960s and 1980s. In the US, he was known under his own name, and in the UK he operated under the brand name Marrian-McDonnell before switching to an eponymous label in 1973.
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Hannah Holman Hannah Holman (born March 12, 1991 in Leamington, Utah) is an American model. She has appeared in editorials for "i-D", "V Magazine", "W Magazine", "Dazed & Confused", "Interview Magazine", "Allure", and Japanese, British, Australian, Teen, American, Russian, Italian, and French "Vogue" and on the covers of "French Revue de Modes", "D", and "Elle" Portugal. Holman has appeared in campaigns for Alexander Wang, Burberry, H&M, Iceberg, Jill Stuart, Marc Jacobs, Max Mara, Miu Miu, Chloe and Uniqlo. She has walked in fashion shows for designers including Alberta Ferretti, Antonio Marras, Betty Jackson, Chanel, Christopher Kane, Prada, Erdem, Fendi, Gaspard Yurkievich, Jaeger London, Jonathan Saunders, Karl Lagerfeld, Loewe, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Missoni, Miu Miu, Nina Ricci, Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti, Valentino, Hogan, Iceberg, John Rocha, Les Copains, Mary Katrantzou, Pringle of Scotland, Sonia Rykiel, Topshop Unique, and Vivienne Westwood Red Label.
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Cocoon (Björk song) "Cocoon" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer Björk for her fourth studio album "Vespertine" (2001). It was written and produced by Björk and Thomas Knak, and released as the album's third single on 11 March 2002, by One Little Indian Records. Inspired by her relationship with artist Matthew Barney, Björk wanted to make a record with a domestic mood. Working with Knak, she wrote "Cocoon", a song which is lyrically about a woman who describes making love with her lover during their post-coital hibernation, and includes frank sexual narrative related both explicitly and through over-sharing and metaphor.
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Biophilia (album) Biophilia is the seventh studio album by Icelandic singer Björk. It was released on 5 October 2011, by One Little Indian Records and distributed by Nonesuch Records in North America and by Universal Music Group in the rest of the world. Björk composed it as a concept album during the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis, exploring the links between nature, music and technology. Billed as the first "app album", "Biophilia" is a multimedia project released alongside a series of apps linking the album's themes to musicology concepts. It was followed by a series of educational workshops in four continents.
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Anna Sui Anna Sui (Traditional Chinese: 蕭志美, Simplified: 萧志美, pinyin: Xiāo Zhìměi, Japanese: アナスイ) (born August 4, 1952) is an American fashion designer from Detroit. She was named one of the "Top 5 Fashion Icons of the Decade" and in 2009 earned the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), joining the ranks of Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, and Diane von Furstenberg. Her brand categories include several fashion lines, footwear, cosmetics, fragrances, eyewear, jewelry, accessories, home goods and a gifts line. Anna Sui products are sold through her free-standing stores and distributors around the world in over 50 countries. In 2006, "Fortune" estimated the collective value of Sui's fashion empire at over $400 million.
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Designers Remix Designers Remix is a Danish fashion house founded in 2002 by Charlotte Eskildsen. Eskildsen is the creative director and head of design.
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Daniel Kearns (designer) Daniel Kearns (born April 15, 1975) is an Irish menswear designer with a master's degree in menswear from the Royal College of Art. He has held menswear designer positions at Emanuel Ungaro and John Galliano, and from 2005-2010 he was Design Director of menswear at Alexander McQueen. Since March 2011, he has been the menswear Design Director at Yves Saint Laurent.
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Isobel (song) "Isobel" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer Björk for her third studio album, "Post". Written by Sjón based on a story by Björk, the lyrics of "Isobel" tell the story of the title character, who is magically born in a forest and sends a message of instinct amongst the logic thinking of the people of the city. The story of Isobel has been explored in "Human Behaviour" and "Bachelorette", forming a trilogy. The track was released as the second single for the album as two different CD releases in August 1995. Featuring additional songwriting by Nellee Hooper and Marius de Vries, string arrangements by Eumir Deodato and production by Hooper and Björk, "Isobel" combines a lush orchestral sound with electronic breakbeats.
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Icelandic national costume Icelandic national costume, collectively known in Icelandic as Þjóðbúningurinn has enjoyed various levels of popularity since the term was coined in Iceland in the 19th century, during the fight for independence. Since 2001 the national costume is regulated by "Þjóðbúningaráð" (The National Costume Authority), which preserves the correct techniques of making them and instructs people.
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Mattli Mattli (1907–1982), also sometimes Jo Mattli, was a Swiss-born and London-based fashion designer known for his couture designs and, later, his ready-to-wear clothing and couture patterns.
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Maria Grachvogel Maria Grachvogel (born 11 July 1969) is a British fashion designer. Grachvogel designs under her own label, has a store in London and regularly stages shows at London Fashion Week. Her clients have included Emma Thompson, Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, and Victoria Beckham, who has modelled for her at London Fashion Week.
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Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (] ; born 23 April 1958), also known as HÖH, is a musician, an art director, and "allsherjargoði" ("chief goði") of Ásatrúarfélagið ("the Ásatrú Association").
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Bettina Graziani Simone Micheline Bodin (8 May 1925 – 2 March 2015), known professionally as Bettina or Bettina Graziani, was a French fashion model of the 1940s and 1950s and an early muse to the fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy. She was a designer of knitwear and, later, a poet and composer.
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Aki Narula Aki Narula (born 1968) is an Indian fashion designer and costume designer and wardrobe stylist in Hindi films, who is most known for films like, "Bunty Aur Babli" (2006), "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" (2007) and "Dostana" (2008). His brand label "AKI" was launched in 1996.
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Bryn Taylor Bryn Taylor (née Tripucka, born August 26, 1980), is an American fashion stylist and founder of The Re-Stylist. Originally based in New York, The Re-Stylist became a bicoastal business in December 2011, when Taylor moved to San Francisco.
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Telegram (album) Telegram is the first full-length and second overall remix album by Icelandic musician Björk. The album is a collection of remixes of several tracks from her album "Post", which had all previously appeared as B-sides of the UK versions of the singles off "Post", except the "Enjoy" remix which was previously unreleased. The cover was shot by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. All of the songs on "Post" were remixed, excluding "The Modern Things" and "It's Oh So Quiet". The collection also included one new song entitled "My Spine" which was originally slated to appear on "Post" but was pushed out by "Enjoy", becoming the B-side to the UK "It's Oh So Quiet" single instead. The album has sold 228,000 copies in US according to SoundScan.
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Lars Nilsson Lars Nilsson (born 1966 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a fashion designer and fully integrated member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America who has worked with several major fashion houses, including Christian Lacroix, Balmain,Christian Dior, Ralph Lauren, Bill Blass, Nina Ricci and his own menswear line, Mr. Nils.
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Denimu Denimu (Ian Berry) is a British born artist currently based in Sweden. He creates artwork solely from denim; re-using jeans, jackets, and other denim clothing to create portraits, urbanscapes and other unique works. In 2013, Denimu was named as one of "Art Business News" "30 under 30" influential artists in the world.
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Christophe Josse Christophe Josse (] ) is a French fashion designer and an haute couture fashion brand.