First Avant Garde Fashion Designer
Fashion designer pierre cardin was credited with revolutionising the industry in the 1960s and 70s with his avant garde style space age designs and love of geometric shapes.
First avant garde fashion designer. Her attitudes towards collaboration were ground breaking she surrounded herself with the crème de la crème of paris talent. According to avant garde fashion designer barbara i gongini the most inspirational figures at the moment are old school avant gardists like yohji yamamoto rei kawakubo and junja watanabe portraid. Yamamoto who originally went to law school decided after graduation that he wanted to help out at his mom s dressmaking shop instead.
Over the years britain has served as the base for numerous fashion designers who have wowed people with their interesting concepts and avant garde styles. Born on august 31 1981 gareth pugh started his fashion career early on working as a costume designer for the english national youth theatre before achieving his fashion degree at central saint martins in 2003. Charles frederick worth born in england served as the favoured designer in the courts of napoleon iii.
Elsa encouraged the relationship between fashion and art acting as godmother to the avant garde. In the hands of spanish designer paco rabanne the space race became perfect stimulus for envisioning an avant garde future working with a series of innovative materials including paper plastic and most famously metal rabanne s designs often resembled very beautiful and sometimes scanty armour from a mysterious universe. The fashion maven is most notable for her brazen originality eccentric design and role as surrealist patron.