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              So this is my very first time writing a blog about myself. I never thought of writing blog until I find that I need some kind of way to express my thought and my feeling since I cannot find someone to talk to. Well I am not a good writer. I hate taking English classes and barely got B for English. Hence I think this is a good way to improve my writing. So well my life kinda gets odd since December last year. Everything slowly change and become chaotic. My mental life has been mess up. I got depress for several months since then. It was mainly because of relationship problem. We date for nearly a year and from the month of sixth, many things break out and it was just like a boom. We fought, we argued, and we tired. It was a time that seems like I cry every single day. I am tired and sick of fighting and arguing with him. And I know I am not the only one who was tired. Yes, everything might because of me. But that's just me and who I am. I know to him, I was definitely wrong and he wants me to change. However, he never understand me and why I am that way. I think everyone has their own dark side and my problem is a common one that many people has in their relationship or marriage life. He doesn't want to accept me for who I am and live with it but want me to change or we move on break up. I was so disappointed because of his easiness of giving up this relationship. He doesn't know that what I do for him and the love that I gave him are worth more than that....Now I am the one who have to change myself and shut my month up, live with the reality so I can be with him...I dont know what to do more than that.

Salvatore Ferragamo and Christian Louboutin

Salvatore Ferragamo was born in 1907 in Bonito. At very young age, Ferragamo found his passion for shoes. At age nine he made first pair of shoes for his sisters. After study shoesmaking in Naples, Ferragamo has designed many innovative shoes, yet they hurt the foot of the wearers. Thus, Ferragamo decide to studied anatomy at the University of Southern California.  When he return to Italy, Ferragamo started making shoes for many famous celebrities such as Rita Hayworth, Sofia Loran, Audrey Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman. Salvatore Ferragamo has designs many creative forms of shoes. He got inspire from architecture, unconventional materials, industrial design and art.

Christian Louboutin was born in Paris 1963. He has three sisters. Because he thought that he has adopted by his family, he had decided to invent his own history. He decided to come to Egypt and India as a teenager. Then came back to French with a portfolio of drawing shoes. Christian got inspire from seeing a sign from Africa forbidding women wearing sharp stilettos from entering a building. The image caused a strong impact on Christian mind and he decides to use the idea in his design. Christian Louboutin design has been well know with the red sole signature. The idea about the red sole came up when he saw his assistant red nail polish.

There are differences and similarities between Salvatore Ferragamo and Christian Louboutin. The similarities are Salvatore and Christian both have the passion and fascination on shoes making. They all start making and drawing shoes from very young age. They are both have an innovation and difference in their designs. Moreover, Christian and Salvatore had make shoes for many famous celebrities by their time. Salvatore had make shoes for Sofia Loran, Audrey Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman and Marilyn Monroe in the past. And now, Christian has make shoes for Lady Gaga, Joan Collins, Jennifer Lopez and Madonna. And now the two companies are both expand into leather goods and other accessories.

The differences between Salvatore and Christian are their inspiration. Salvatore got inspiration mostly from architecture, industrial design, and art. However Christian got his inspiration from history and event or even random thing like red nail polish. Salvatore had his strong background in shoes design by attend to shoes making school and Anatomy University. However, Christian did not attend to design school. He is a truly self taught designer. Salvatore Ferragamo shoes design often has massive platform and wedge shape. However Christian Louboutin concentrated on the sharp stiletto heels with red sole.

Work Cited

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Lacroix Christian

Lacroix Christian was born in 1951 in Arles, France. As a child, Lacroix have had a strong sense of art and design; he likes putting together little albums on theater and opera, collages assembling family portraits.  In 1973, He left Arles to study art hisoty in Montpellier, Paris. At the same time Lacroix wrote a master’s thesis on French costume in the paintings of the seventeenth century, he took courses at the Ecole du Louvre to become a museum curator. His wife was the one encouraged him to become a fashion designer. In 1978, Lacroix worked for Hermes where he learned the technical aspects of the profession.  He got the Golden Thimble award for dresses designed in 1986. In the same year, the chief officer of the luxury operation LVMH supported financial needed for Lacroix to open his own couture house. Lacroix’s creation manifested his fascination in the history of clothing. He puts the mixture of luxury, youthful, baroque, and sophisticated into his designs.

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Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani was born in Italy, 1934. He was known as the most authoritative names in Italian ready-to-wear design. Founded his passion in fashion, Armani left the medical school at the University of Piacenza to follow the fashion business. Armani became a buyer for the La Rinascete chain in Milan. In 1964, Nino Cerruti, ower of Hitman, the Italian men’s clothing producer recognized Armani’s ability in clothing materials. Thus, Nino Cerruti acquired Armani to restructure the company’s approach. After six years worked with Cerruti, Armani developed his menswear tailor skills. In 1960, Armani began a relationship with Sergio Galeotti. In 1973, they opened a design office in Milan. In 1975, Giorgio Armani presented his first collection of men’s ready-to-wear and women’s line for the same season. The keys of Armani’ style are clean, simple, and beyond. His design enhances the personality of the person who wore it. The innovation in selecting fabric is always the distinction of Armani’s collection for men and women.

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Jean Paul Gaultier

               Jean Paul Gaultier

                Jean Paul Gaultier was born in 1952 in Paris. At very young age, he fascinated about fashion from television and fashion magazine. From 1970 to 1975, Jean Paul work as an apprenticeship for the famous couture house Pierre Cardin. In 1976, Jean Paul first presented a women fashion show. By the financial support of the Japanese consortium Kashiyama, Gaultier opened his own fashion business in 1982. In 1984, Gaultier established a new line for younger people, which called Junior Gaultier. This new line attracted many young clienteles for both men and women. Gaultier got most of his design inspiration from his city Paris then Lodon, which is his second city. The streets of London and famous monuments like Eiffel Tower and Moulin Rounge fascinated him, and he translated those into fashion. Jean Paul Gaultier well known for his idea of mixing the masculinity and femininity together. He use the masculine design of double-breasted, leather jacket inflected by the femininity of the corset. And he had showed his men models have worn skirts, corsets and dresses to indentified their masculinity. Gaultier is very sosphisticated about his fabric choices. He always chooses the most luxurious materials in his design and often give the fabrics a worn, faded look as they had already been worn. 

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Hubert de Givenchy

                Hubert de Givenchy born on February 21, 1927 in France. At the same time Givenchy studied at the Ecole des Beauz Art School in Paris, he got a position as an apprentice designer at Jacques Fath couture house. Series of jobs as an assistant designer build up Givenchy’s skill as a fashion designer. In 1951, he opened his own couture house and immediately became well known with the design “Bettina blouse”. Bettina blouse is a simple white cotton shirt named after Bettina Graziani, a model at Fath. In1953, Givenchy met his professional and personal partner Cristobal Balenciaga. Givenchy’s fragrance business “Societe des Parfums Givenchy was introduced in 1954. Audrey Hepburn was his signature model and his inspiration. He designed many outfit for her in her series movies: Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, My Fair Lady. Givenchy was famous for his style of bright cheerful colors and youthful feminine design.

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Jeanne Lanvin

                Jeanne Lanvin was born in 1867 in Paris, France. She was a millinery apprentice at the hats workshop of Madame Felix from the age of fifteen.  When she was eighteen She started her open her own millinery workshop. In 1897, Lavin bore her first child named Marguerite Marie-Blanche. Her daughter is her inspiration for her children’s clothing line. In 1908, She started design children’s clothing and sold it in her millinery shop. Then one year after that, Lanvin expand her career by opening a department for women in the millinery house as well. Lanvin was well known with the empire-waist design, the chemise frock and the shade of light blue. In 1927, she opened shops in Deauville, Biarritz, Buenos Aires and Barcelona. In 1926, Lavin carried additional departments for furs, menswear and lingerie. In 1946, after Jeanne Lanvin death, her daughter became the director for Lanvin perfume business. Madame Lanvin inspired from many things. For Instance, her signature color “Lanvin blue” was inspired from the painting by Fra Angelico.

                                                                  Work Cited 

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Christian Dior

Christian Dior

Christian Dior was born in 1905 and died in 1957. He was born in Granville, France. His family moved to Paris in 1911, in here Dior followed Parisian artistic development. In 1927, Dior opened an art gallery on rue de la Boetie in Paris after his military service. His gallery exhibited varies of works of many contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Lurcat, Ossip Zadkine, and Giorgio de Chirico. In 1931, a huge crisis came to Christian life; his mother died, and his father completely bankrupt. Dior had to close his gallery in Paris in a stage of no income and no place to live. A designer for couture house called Jean Ozenne is the one who introduced Christian Dior to the fashion industry. Dior started study fashion drawing at the age of thirty. He sold his sketched of dresses and hats to many hat makers and couture houses. Christian Dior personality created his first fours dresses for Robert Piguet in Robert midseason collection. Because of Dior’s talent, Robert Piguet offered Dior a designer position in his studio. In there, Dior created three collections and had been success in these. In 1935, He developed his interest in foreign markets and high-end ready to-wear. In 1946, Dior opened his own couture house included two workshops for dresses and one for suits. The name of Dior became very popular since the opening of his couture house. The two famous lines of Christian Dior were Huit and Corolle (the New Look). The New Look line played a synonymous role in 1950s fashion.

Work Cited

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Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

Gabrielle Chanel born in the town of Saumur in the Loire Valley in French on August 1883 and died in 1971. Because of the early death of her mother, Chanel and her sister were sent to an orphanage at Aubazine, where the nuns have taught the two girls sewing. Later on, Chanel and her sister both assist Monsieur Henri Desboutin of the house of Grampayre as dressmakers. Chanel’s neat tailor-made suit and masculine riding dress made her stand out from other designers. In 1908-1909, Chanel used an apartment of her friend, Balsan, in Paris to set up a millinery business. Chanel’s lover, millionaire Arthur Capel, who also known as “Boy”, lent her money to rent commercial premises on the rue Cambon and found a shop for Chanel to open on the fashionable rue Gontaut-Biron. Chanel’s first collection was presented there in 1913. Chanel was well known with her little black dress and the ballet flats with contrasting toe-caps. In 1921, Chanel launched her first perfume, Chanel No. 5. Chanal No.5 was the first perfume has a designer’s name. It remains top sellers perfumes until today.

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Alexander McQueen

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Alexander McQueen was born on 17 March 1969 in Lewisham, London. Alexander left school at the age 16 and worked for the tailors Anderson and Sheppard on a traineeship with Saile Row. Although Alexander has never study fashion design before, his years working for Saile Row have help to build his skill and his reputation in the fashion industry. Then Alexander went to Italy alone and got a job with Gigli. After all the years in Italy, he decide to come back to London to get fashion degree at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. McQueen has been know for his provocative, romantic and extraordinary designs on stage. His choice of models was idiosyncratic. “One had a shaved head; other had hair teased into spiky nests. The star mannequin, who had flown in from London, was an out, black lesbian”. McQueen has wok for Gucci Group as creative director in 2000. He has won the British Fashion Awards’ British Designer of the year and received the CFDA Award for Best International Designer.

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