Fashion Designers A–Z. Updated 2020 Edition

Unquestionably a leader in the global fashion press, Suzy Menkes is International Vogue Editor at Conde Nast International. Her work appears on the websites of 23 international editions of Vogue in 16 languages. She is also a leading Instagram influencer. Among the world's most influential fashion critics, she is an officer of the Order of the British Empire as well as a chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur. She lives and works in London and Paris. @SuzyMenkesVogue Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT and founding editor of Fashion Theory. Described in The Washington Post as one of "fashion's brainiest women" and by Suzy Menkes as "the Freud of fashion," Steele combines serious scholarship (and a Yale Ph.D.) with a rare ability to communicate with general audiences. As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies. Colleen Hill is curator of costume and accessories at The Museum at FIT. She has curated more than a dozen exhibitions, including Paris Refashioned, 1957-1968 and Fairy Tale Fashion, authored or co-authored six books on fashion, and contributed to numerous other publications. Robert Nippoldt is a German graphic designer, illustrator, and book artist. He is best known for his award-winning books Gangster, Jazz and Hollywood about America in the 1920s and 1930s. His studio is located at the very hip old depot of Muenster.