Fashion Icons: A Celebration of Fashion's Legendary Designers

Fashion Icons celebrates the origins and contributions of some of the world's most remarkable and gifted fashion designers throughout history

Bold, whimsical illustrations by David Lee Csicsko along with concise, engaging bios written by Gillion Carrara celebrate a diverse group of designers. From Paul Poiret, the visionary who shunned the corset, to Elsa Schiaparelli, who shocked the world with her "shoe hat", to Comme des Garcon's Rei Kawakubo, Fashion Icons celebrates 50 fashion designers who have influenced historical trends, how we dress today, and what the future of fashion will look like.

Featured designers include: Jeanne-Marie Lanvin, Madeleine Vionnet, Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Cristobal Balenciaga, Ann Lowe, Christian Dior, Pierre Cardin, Hubert de Givenchy, Sonia Rykiel, Halston, Valentino Garavani, Karl Lagerfeld, Giorgio Armani, Azzedine Alaia, Yves Saint-Laurent, Issey Miyake, Vivienne Westwood, Rei Kawakubo, Stephen Burrows, Yohji Yamamoto, Gianni Versace, Miuccia Prada, Franco Moschino, Jean Paul Gaultier, Martin Margiela, Dries Van Noten, Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana, Ann Demeulemeester, Isabel & Ruben Toledo, John Galliano, Junya Watanabe, Alber Elbaz, Tom Ford, Rick Owens, Marc Jacobs, Thom Browne, Duro Olowu, Hedi Slimane, Alexander McQueen, Viktor Horsting & Rolf Snoeren, Nicolas Ghesquiere, Stella McCartney, Rabih Kayrouz, Phoebe Philo, Kate & Laura Mulleavy, Virgil Abloh, Simone Rocha, and Kerby Jean-Raymond

Author: David Lee Csicsko
Publisher: Trope Publishing Co.
Published: 09/26/2023
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781951963156
Audience: Ages 4-8

About the Author
David Lee Csicsko is an award-winning artist and designer whose distinctive artwork, stained glass, and mosaics beautify train stations, hospitals, churches and universities across the Midwest and East Coast. His many credits include designing the Obamas' White House Christmas in 2012. David's lively illustrations can also be seen in The Skin You Live In from the Chicago Children's Museum, now in its 16th printing, and the other books in his "People Series", LGBTQ+ Icons, Science People, and Iconic Composers. Through his use of color, bold graphics and playful patterns, David Lee Csicsko celebrates the richness and diversity of life.

Gillion Carrara is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art institute of Chicago. She has been employed in the Department since 1991, and in the Department of Fashion Design since 1978. In her studies, her focus is on contemporary and avant-garde fashion and dress, art, literature, sociology and the aesthetics of fashion and dress. Until 2017, she was the founding Director of the Fashion Resource Center, and for thirty years built a collection of contemporary and avant-garde fashion, publications and various media. It is not a historic collection but a hands-on visual and tactile collection. She actively writes book and exhibition reviews for publication. She presents lectures locally and nationally, attends costume symposiums, travels to costume exhibitions and is on the Board of Costume Colloquium, Florence, Italy, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the Costume Society of America (CSA).