Bruce- The King Of Fashion and Style World!

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I stumbled upon this interview and felt like sharing with you people. On the back ground you can visualize personality of Bruce,the fashion designer.His fashion designs are matchless and just adorable through out the world!Just go through this interview to understand this fashion designer deeply!


LO: Many of the smaller companies showed their fall '99 collections after Europe, but you showed yours according to the new schedule, before Europe. Why is that?
Nicole: Everyone's going to eventually have to change to the schedule, so why not change now instead of later? Because there would have always been a time when there was a crunch, we just decided to do it right away. And it's also like people were coming in for those shows, and I don't know how many people came in for the second group of shows that just happened.
LO: I'm curious, why don't you walk out on the runway at the end of your shows?
Daphne: No particular reason. It's not meant to pose any statement. You know, if it was just our friends it would be one thing, but we're not really the type of people that go out in public and, you know, a "Look at me! Look at me!" kind of thing. It's just kind of nerve-wracking. And anyway, if you're not really some sort of exhibitionist, for people to actually go out on a stage with everyone staring at you, it's very strange.
LO: What was the inspiration for fall '99?
Daphne: Everybody asks us that question about inspiration. The way Nicole and I work, it's never really like that. It's not like, "Oh, my inspiration this time was the Renaissance, you know, during the Dark Ages." It's never really about that. Nicole: Fall '99 ended up being a little tough because the seasons changed. The fashion calendar changed a lot, so we had a lot less time. But I think we're just -- we're really trying to focus on the construction of our clothes right now. We don't have themes. But it's pretty much like an evolution of design ideas that we've been working on from seasons past. That one was more construction, I think.
Daphne: Of course, you try to stick to a real cohesive thing during a collection, but really we've kind of dabbled. In every collection we've kind of dabbled in a little bit of everything, whether it's the embroidery or things that are really tactile, like yarns. And we're actually really strong in knitwear. It's not any one particular thing. And we always try to throw in something that has more of a personal feel to it. Sometimes it's not just about a pair of pants, you know, there always might be a little bit of humor in something. If you split the legs open there's air holes on the bottom. We try to take time to make it a little bit more personal. But in terms of inspirations, I guess it's about everything.
LO: How would you describe your customer?
Daphne: Hopefully she's hip. I like to think that our customer could be -- in terms of age at least -- I'd like to think that it can pretty much follow in a really wide range of people. And even in style. I think there should be things that every type of woman should want, that can appreciate. And it varies. I mean, if there is one point of view that I find for some reason stands out in my mind, it's "female." It's funny because we had spoken to a department store once and they said, "Well, because with your name, no one's going to know that you're two females." And I said to her, "Well, if you actually look at our clothing, you would never not know that these are females that designed this."
LO: Do you have any famous customers?
Daphne: From what I understand, in London they've sold things to PJ Harvey.
LO: What do you offer the customer that other designers don't?
Nicole: I think it's our design. The type of design that we do is -- it's not mainstream, but I think it's very easily every-day wearable clothing. We try to make things a little bit more personal to the wearer. There's a lot of small details there that I think are special.
LO: What is your price range?
Daphne: We sell denim that we try to sell with our main collection as well. And it's a really good support for us. So, our least expensive items can run from $150 for a pair of jeans to $500 for a pair of the wool, lined pants, to a leather jacket that runs about $1,300. And that's all retail prices. Tops can range anywhere from, I 'd say, $300 to about $700. For someone who can't go shopping like that every day it's an awesome thing to think of spending $700 on a shirt. I mean, I can justify it because I know how much it took -- how much it cost to make it, and also how much labor went into it.
LO: Did your exposure in "Vogue" a few months ago help your business?
Daphne: Actually, it's been helpful with stores because, you know, your average store probably looks at "Vogue", in America at least. So, it's been pretty good in that way.
Nicole: We were very surprised about that, actually. It was really nice, I think. We've been getting a lot of support from them, from the people there, so it was nice.
LO: So, where did the two of you meet?
Daphne: We met at Parson's, and we used to live across the hall from each other and we became friends that way and we just stayed friends.
LO: Why did you start Bruce?
Nicole: When I was in college I kind of always knew I wanted to do my own thing. And when I got out of school -- you know, there's really not many places to work. So, I took jobs. I mean, the first job I ever took was horrendous. I actually worked at J. Crew and it was like one of the worst experiences I've ever had in a job before. I got out of school and I realized that the opportunities I was interested in weren't there. So, I kind of took jobs that would help me more with what I wanted to do eventually. I ended up taking a job later on at Isaac, which is a secondary line, in the fabric department, in order to help me with this business. And Daphne worked in production for, I think it was Donna Karan mens.
Daphne: It was your typical 9:00 to 5:00 job. Actually, in the design business it's never really 9:00 to 5:00, it's usually 9:00 to 11:00 or 9:00 to 10:00. So, you know, just getting really weary about the kind of jobs that were out there. We were always talking about it and just being friends for so long, we just shared a lot in common in terms of, like, aesthetically looking at clothes. So, one day we just kind of decided.
LO: When was that?
Daphne: About four years ago. This is our fourth season doing shows, but we've actually been doing this for about five. Six, actually. And the first two seasons were trial for us. It was more about getting our feet wet and making sure that we kind of knew what we were doing before we started investing a lot of money in shows and things like that.
LO: How were you funded?
Daphne: Both of us had financial help. I don't think anybody -- unless you're independently wealthy -- I don't think anyone would be able to support this kind of business on a continual basis.
LO: So, you've had help from your parents? Nicole: They help us out quite a bit.
LO: How many employees do you have?
Daphne: None. We do everything ourselves. We don't sew the garments, of course, but we contract people, contract help as we need it. But in terms of organizing and running the entire business, from show to production to everything, to press. Nicole and I pretty much do everything ourselves. And we've never had any full-time employee. They've always been sort of freelance contractors.
LO: Do you plan on hiring anyone?
Nicole: That's our goal. Our goal is to be able to hire several people, you know, to have a staff, and maybe even an assistant, so that when we will be able to focus on the creative end a lot more.
LO: What's the worst thing about being in fashion?
Daphne: I guess the obvious things. The workload. The business. I'd say everything is the worse thing except for the actual creating. Everything else is just horrible. It's such a funny thing because it is a business, and with every business there is PR, there's financial knowledge that you have to deal with.
Nicole: I really like to design, but since we've been doing this, the things that we really love to do, you just never get to do them. It ends up being like the smallest part of your day. Out of each season you might spend like two weeks -- not even -- like probably a week designing.
LO: What do you like about working in fashion? Nicole: [Speechless] I don't know why I can't answer that question. Right now I can't think of anything.
Daphne: I like the idea of sculpting things three-dimensional. And the idea of working on a form and looking at something from all around. And also the power of what clothing can have. I shouldn't really say "power," because it doesn't necessarily have power, but the fact that it can actually represent or express something so powerfully. And depending on how good it makes a person feel, to what it symbolizes. It could be a uniform, or -- it's so representational of so many things and it changes so often. And it could be an incredibly superficial thing. It just has so many different meanings. It's just nice, also, to see people express themselves individually through it.
LO: What are your plans for the future?
Nicole: I think a lot of people get sidetracked on doing a lower priced line in order to support their more expensive line. But the thing is for us we think we need to build up creatively, and also the business side. We need to build up one line. And then when we're really happy with that and that's stable, then we'd like to go into a lower priced line. We'd love to do menswear, accessories, lingerie. We have a lot of plans.
LO: Do you see yourself designing when you're 70?
Daphne: Maybe. Maybe not. Never say never. I wouldn't mind it. If the situation is still good, I definitely would like to continue doing it, but I have so many of my own personal goals. The future is sort of like a question mark. It would be nice to be able to do lots of other things besides just this. I like cooking. I would love to have a restaurant some day. I know for me, anyway, when I first started this and every day was sort of a struggle for us, these interests that you have are the things that kind of keep you going also.


Source: About.Com

Bruce-The Brightest Star Of Fashion And Style World.

Another fashion and style guru, Bruce Oldfield was born on July 14, 1950. A British designer by birth is known for his high style and fashion apparels. Hollywood stars, celebrities, royalty and the wealthiest of the world look for his advice for their occasions to dress up. Almost all Hollywood celebrities depend entirely on him. Jerry Hall, Joan Collins, Queen Noor of Jordan and Queen Rania of Jordan and list never ends. He gave a new direction fashion and stylesHis childhood may not be very comfortable as he spent childhood in children's charity, Barnardo's. But his determination made him stand apart in celebrity fashion and style.
He graduated from St. Martin's School of Art in London in 1973 with minimum score. That year he staged his first one-man show for Henri Bendel, later returning to London to show his first collection. Bruce started his own label of ready to wear stuff and sold them to American and British stores. He began making clothes by order of celebrities. By this time he had international clientele.He was honored by OBE for his contribution in fashion and style industry. His famous biography came to lime light in 2004 named ‘Rootless.’ A long list of awards and honors trailed him. His fashion dresses have set the floor on fire.Today also he is the hot favorite of bridal and ready-to-wear, and also he redesigned the uniform of McDonald in 2008! Hail an icon of fashion world

Bliss Blass A Pioneer In Fashion and Style Ideas

The determination that Bill Blass had, was corner stone for his expansion of his expire. Bills started his career in fashion world in 1946. He bought the company Maurice Rentner Ltd., which he had joined in 1959, and renamed it Bill Blass Limited. Then his expansion had no boundary. Next three decades he ruled the fashion industry in swim wear, furs, luggage, perfume and chocolate. His company grew by leaps and bounds by 1998, claiming $700 million a year
Usually fashion designers designs will be too high to wear in daily life. But Bliss’s designs were wearable. Bliss hit the dart, understood the necessity and needs of working class of America, and gave it what it wanted. In a time when other designers were designing clothes which were known more for being a work of art, Blass was designing clothing which even everyday women could wear day or night.   He made carved a special place for sports wears, gave them a stylish and clean look. Probably till the date Bliss understood his clients better than others.          
Blass was hired by Ford Company to give the exclusive look. Then consequently he was associated with Emilio Pucci, Hubert de Givenchy, and Cartier. Each year as the fashion changes the colors, fashion style and fashion designs were updated.  A truly unique feature of this model, and the 1980 through 1983 Mark series Blass models, was a "carriage roof" giving a convertible top look to the cars. After 1983, the Blass edition became just a unique color option with rear quarter window model designations and a few features that were options on the standard model.
He died of throat cancer. Just 6 days after completing his memoir. Blass was a perfect connoisseur of century in fashion and style.

Bill Blass- A Bliss For Fashion And Style Industry!

Another American in fashion designing was Bill Blass, born on June 22, 1922; he ruled the fashion world up to June 12 2002.Bill was known for his extra ordinary tailoring talent and combination of texture of fabrics and patterns. Bill received plenty of awards in the fashion industry. In 1999, Bill also received Life Achievement Award.
Began his fashion designer career in 1946, joining joining Maurice Rentner Ltd.Bill was highly creative and produced expensive but the most beautiful fashion apparels. Bill’s fashion apparels stand apart in the crowd because of his innovative combination of patterns and textures. Bill produced his own label and bought the company and renamed it as Bill Blass Ltd.
Somehow his early life was not that happy and pleasant. His father worked as a salesman of hardware committed suicide when bliss was five years old. Bliss’s mother died in 1952. Bliss had one sister.
Bliss once admitted that all his school books were filled with Hollywood stars and their fashion clothes. Unknowingly he was dragged into fashion and style world. At the age of fifteen, Bliss started sewing, and selling evening gowns. He saved money and then joined fashion design course at Manhattan. Bill was cut out for the fashion and style industry, so he excelled and won Design for Living award. Bliss was so fashion conscious; he spent his salary on clothing, shoes, and elegant meals.
Bliss joined army in 1942, he met so many artists, writers and sound engineers. We can say he that  learnt the hard truth of life here.
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Betsey-Betted and Ruled Over Fashion!

Betsey was graduated from Syracuse University in 1964.Betsey got a plum position as a guest editor at Mademoiselle, a fashion and life style magazine. In this short stint she impressed everyone, and got a permanent position in the art department. Immediately Betsy was sent to London when Beatle fashion, bell bottom and belly baring knit tops were on pinnacle. There she visited the hub of fashion named Carnaby Street. After returning from London she started designing on those lines what she had witnessed in London. Her fashion ideas, fashion and styles, and celebrity fashion and style created whirl pool in the fashion industry.
She started designing for all branded companies of America. In the 1970s Johnson designed slip dresses, drop-waist ballerina dresses, double knit A-line minis, and "nutsy artsy" embroidered sweaters for the Alley Cat clothing line, then for her own New York shop, Betsey Bunky Nini. Her fashion ideas became the craze among the youngsters. They gave the look of celebrity fashion styles.
1990 was an era of Betsey; she ruled the roof of fashion industry, expanding her empire. She captured the youngsters mostly because her clothing had ‘young look’ in them. Polly Mellen of Allure magazine said: "Her clothes are fun, female, flirty, slightly aggressive and teasing. Her fashion shows are always witty, fun and slightly shoddy. But in the showroom, the clothes are real and the prices right." Betsey told plainly that only her passion for clothing made her come in this limelight otherwise she did not have any brilliant fashion ideas. She just made things with heart and burning passion.Betsey may be floating like this but she ships out every month at least dozens of designs. Johnson was her own fitting model, as he used to wear designs in daily life also.She started with the British Invasion of America style, hopped on the early 1980s punk bandwagon with safety pins and ripped T-shirts, and kept current with the 1990s rave, grunge, medieval, and deconstructionist fashion movements, all of which began on the streets and in music clubs haunted by disenfranchised youth.She simply says: "I've stopped aging in my work 25 years ago."Perhaps it is just that sense of wonder, openness, and a bizarre sense of humor that keeps this over-50 designer in touch with the youthful trends of today.

Betsey’s World of Fashion and Style!

Betsey was graduated from Syracuse University in 1964.Betsey got a plum position as a guest editor at Mademoiselle, a fashion and life style magazine. In this short stint she impressed everyone, and got a permanent position in the art department. Immediately Betsy was sent to London when Beatle fashion, bell bottom and belly baring knit tops were on pinnacle. There she visited the hub of fashion named Carnaby Street. After returning from London she started designing on those lines what she had witnessed in London. Her fashion ideas, fashion and styles, and celebrity fashion and style created whirl pool in the fashion industry.
She started designing for all branded companies of America. In the 1970s Johnson designed slip dresses, drop-waist ballerina dresses, double knit A-line minis, and "nutsy artsy" embroidered sweaters for the Alley Cat clothing line, then for her own New York shop, Betsey Bunky Nini. Her fashion ideas became the craze among the youngsters. They gave the look of celebrity fashion styles.
1990 was an era of Betsey; she ruled the roof of fashion industry, expanding her empire. She captured the youngsters mostly because her clothing had ‘young look’ in them. Polly Mellen of Allure magazine said: "Her clothes are fun, female, flirty, slightly aggressive and teasing. Her fashion shows are always witty, fun and slightly shoddy. But in the showroom, the clothes are real and the prices right." Betsey told plainly that only her passion for clothing made her come in this limelight otherwise she did not have any brilliant fashion ideas. She just made things with heart and burning passion. Betsey may be floating like this but she ships out every month at least dozens of designs. Johnson was her own fitting model, as he used to wear designs in daily life also.She started with the British Invasion of America style, hopped on the early 1980s punk bandwagon with safety pins and ripped T-shirts, and kept current with the 1990s rave, grunge, medieval, and deconstructionist fashion movements, all of which began on the streets and in music clubs haunted by disenfranchised youth. She simply says: "I've stopped aging in my work 25 years ago."Perhaps it is just that sense of wonder, openness, and a bizarre sense of humor that keeps this over-50 designer in touch with the youthful trends of today.


Betsey was graduated from Syracuse University in 1964.Betsey got a plum position as a guest editor at Mademoiselle, a fashion and life style magazine. In this short stint she impressed everyone, and got a permanent position in the art department. Immediately Betsy was sent to London when Beatle fashion, bell bottom and belly baring knit tops were on pinnacle. There she visited the hub of fashion named Carnaby Street. After returning from London she started designing on those lines what she had witnessed in London. Her fashion ideas, fashion and styles, and celebrity fashion and style created whirl pool in the fashion industry.
She started designing for all branded companies of America. In the 1970s Johnson designed slip dresses, drop-waist ballerina dresses, double knit A-line minis, and "nutsy artsy" embroidered sweaters for the Alley Cat clothing line, then for her own New York shop, Betsey Bunky Nini. Her fashion ideas became the craze among the youngsters. They gave the look of celebrity fashion styles.
1990 was an era of Betsey; she ruled the roof of fashion industry, expanding her empire. She captured the youngsters mostly because her clothing had ‘young look’ in them. Polly Mellen of Allure magazine said: "Her clothes are fun, female, flirty, slightly aggressive and teasing. Her fashion shows are always witty, fun and slightly shoddy. But in the showroom, the clothes are real and the prices right." Betsey told plainly that only her passion for clothing made her come in this limelight otherwise she did not have any brilliant fashion ideas. She just made things with heart and burning passion. Betsey may be floating like this but she ships out every month at least dozens of designs. Johnson was her own fitting model, as he used to wear designs in daily life also.She started with the British Invasion of America style, hopped on the early 1980s punk bandwagon with safety pins and ripped T-shirts, and kept current with the 1990s rave, grunge, medieval, and deconstructionist fashion movements, all of which began on the streets and in music clubs haunted by disenfranchised youth. She simply says: "I've stopped aging in my work 25 years ago."Perhaps it is just that sense of wonder, openness, and a bizarre sense of humor that keeps this over-50 designer in touch with the youthful trends of today.

Betsey Johnson - A Bold Soul With Determination!

Betsey Johnson was a gutsy lady. Born in 1942 in Connecticut, She lived a passion led profession! Betsey was inspired from her dance classes where she attended as a little girl. She was an awful admirer of dance and costume. The deadly combination boosted her burning passion.  She started getting the attention   once she got a position as designer for Paraphernalia, a hip and sexy boutique with other young designers.She set latest fashion trends.Betsey was a fashion designer,class apart.
In 1968 she married John Cale, who wore her designs on the stage and in daily life also. They divorced in 1971.Betsey opened the Betsey Bunki Nini boutique in 1969 and immediately got offered a job by Alvin Duskin in San Francisco. The two jobs kept her over busy and globetrotting.   Betsey had a fancy over silk, her most of the clothes are silk in texture. Betsey was a designer with full ear to ear grin and a force of energy in the fashion world.Her fashion and styles have carved a niche in fashion industry.
She stole the stage with swinging style in 1960’s. It was a turbulent time when conservationists believed that her style and fashion was meant for only street-inspired chic and had the influence of British rock n roll on American youth culture.Betsey is known for trendy fashion and styles.
During this decade, Johnson helped launch the American fashion revolution with her space age silvery sci-fi dresses, see-through plastic shifts with discreet stick-on cover-ups, a "noise dress" with metal grommets at the hem that went clink-clank when the wearer moved, elephant bell-bottoms, and 14-inch metal micro-miniskirts. In those years her designs were worn by style setters such as actresses Julie Christie and Brigitte Bardot, model Twiggy, and first lady Jackie Kennedy. Over the ensuing decades Johnson continued to be an energetic leader in fashion design. As Susie Billingsley of Vogue magazine wrote: "She got on the street fashion wagon before anyone. She's always been way ahead of what's hip."