Those who have challenged convention and created more than a mark and forged norms of their own. These are the mavericks of fashion that inspire, propel, rouse and challenge from times gone by and the times that prevail.
Diana Vreeland: Fashion Editor Harper’s Bazaar, Editor-in-Chief Vogue, Special Consultant for Metropolitan Museum of Art
This seminal fashion editor could
very well be described as a sobriquet for an original fashion eccentric. Her well-rounded singular style arising from
the pedigree of first-hand experience of the roaring 20’s, a peculiar work dynamic- the sharp-witted and
blunt memos- are the distinguishing attributes that made her the fashionably
notorious “high priestess of fashion”. Discovering Laurell Bacall and Eddie
Sedgewick, making famous the lips of Mick Jagger, the neck of Cher and scouting
Twiggy the ineffaceable model, this model editrix had an eye for all that is
contrary to stereotype and will always hold the highest of ranks amongst all
time fashion royalty.
Lynn Yaeger:
Oddity at its best, Lynn
Yaeger the renowned fashion reporter and critic, the voice that held the
fashion viewpoint for the newspaper Village Voice through her coloumn ‘Elements
of Style’ for three decades. The idiosyncrasies manifest just the same in the
peculiar dolled up face she wears and in the individualistic plus intelligent
character of her writing.
Iris Apfel:
Not a fashion personality
per se but a fashion icon in all her form and being; outrageous and veritable.
The queen of kitsch exudes eccentricity and quirks that account majorly from
thrift rather than luxurious labels that galore. The chunky jewellery, slouchy
layers of clothes and the flying saucer glasses being a signature, “throwaway
chic” as she calls it. The interior designer extraordinaire has received many a
laurel for her taste in fashion and very aptly been referred to as Rara Avis
for a 2005 exhibition by Metropolitan museum of art; a rare bird indeed.
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