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HISTORY + FUTURE OF FASHION 101

HAUTE COUTURE

Question: What is the opposite of Haute Couture (the pinnacle of High-end Fashion, constructed by hand from start to finish and made from high-quality, expensive and unusual fabrics)?
Answer: Fast Fashion 

Question: Who was the longest reigning designer at House Chanel?
Answer: Karl Lagerfeld, who worked at the legendary fashion house for more than 30 years since 1983, passing away at age 85.


Question: At the start of the 1980's, 6 graduates from Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts became Belgium's most influential Avant-garde Fashion Collective. Who is the sole Honorary member of the "Antwerp 6" who makes Haute Couture?
Answer: Maison Margiela (The Antwerp 6 are Walter Van Beirendonck, Anne Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Bikkembergs, Marina Yee, and Dirk Van Saene).

Question: What is the name of the French Institution est. in 1945, that officially ordains whether or not a Fashion Designer can be a member of "Haute Couture?" 
Answer: Chambre syndicale de la haute couture


Question: Who took over the reigns of Dior after Christian Dior passed away?

Answer: In 1957, Yves Saint Laurent became his successor and the world's youngest couturier at the age of 21. But in 1960, Yves' collection for Dior received bad reviews from the press & clients for introducing a leather jacket for haute couture- resulting in his termination from Dior. Yves Saint Laurent would eventually create his own eponymous Haute Couture Label with Pierre Berge.

ATHLEISURE

Question: Which German sportswear companies were created from a rift between 2 rival brothers in the 1920's?
Answer: Adidas and Puma by the Dassler Brothers (Adolf and Rudolf). Adidas is the 2nd largest sportswear manufacturer in the world, after Nike.

Question: What athleisure company innovated yoga pants with the gusset in the crotch (A diamond-shaped piece of fabric in between the pant legs that increases coverage and flexibility) by building a bodysuit into the pant? 

Answer: Lululemon

Question: What word was coined to embody a casual, urban lifestyle becoming more popular and cool than formal business dressing in youth culture?
Answer: Streetwear



Question: What Milan-based streetwear company does Virgil Abloh run as CEO while being Artistic Director of Louis Vuitton's menswear in Paris, France?  
Answer:
OFF-WHITE, which means "the grey area between black and white, like the color 'off-white' in-context to the fashion world. 


Question: Which Billion-dollar streetwear brand first opened on Lafayette street in downtown Manhattan, catering to skateboarding and hip-hop youth culture? 
Answer: SUPREME (founded by James Jebbia) uses a white Futura font against a distinctive red box, largely based on Barbara Kruger's propaganda art.

MOVIES

Question: Which Tunisian Haute Couture Designer initially studied sculpture and dressed singer and actress Grace Jones in the James Bond movie "A View to a Kill" (1985)?
Answer: Azzedine Alaia


Question: Who is the Red-headed Queens-born wardrobe stylist and costume designer for "Sex and the City" (movies + TV series) and "The Devil wears Prada" inspired by Anna Wintour?


Answer: Patricia Field


Question: Which American heist film takes place during the Met Gala?
Answer: "Ocean's 8" (2018) with Anne Hathaway, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Awkwafina and Rihanna to name a few.

Question: Who is the French Haute Couture Costume Designer for the "5th Element," "The City of Lost Children" and "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover?"
Answer: Jean Paul Gaultier

Question: Who's career was the inspiration for the fictional Fashion Films, "Funny Face" (1957) an American romcom musical with Audrey Hepburn & Fred Astaire, and "Who are you, Polly Maggoo?" (1966) a French satirical arthouse movie?
Answer: Diana Vreeland

LUXURY

Question: Which Italian Luxury Fashion House Director appointed Belgian Designer Raf Simons as their co-creative director in 2020?
Answer: Miuccia Prada 

Question: Which Dutch Haute Couture duo (specializing in conceptual and avant-garde designs) created an exhibition of dolls that wore miniature versions of all their fashion designs spanning 15 years of their retrospective work?
Answer: Viktor & Rolf. Each of the dolls had a corresponding, twin copy in the shape of a life-size porcelain doll wearing the original garments. 

Question: Which French Haute Couture Designer, known for their waist-cinching dresses, sharp-as-a-knife-silhouettes and voluminous capes, dressed Cardi B in their archival Venus crinoline sheath gown made of blush satin and velvet for the 2019 Grammys?
Answer: Thierry Mugler 

Question: Who is the Japanese founder of Comme Des Garcons & Dover Street Market (a retail department store focusing on high-fashion & streetwear brands) with locations in London, Ginza, Singapore, Beijing, NYC, LA and Paris?
Answer: Rei Kawakubo

Question: Which conglomerate companies control the world's top luxury fashion brands?
Answer: LVMH (Louis Vuitton, Dior, Fendi, Givenchy)
Kering (Gucci, YSL, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen)
OTB (Maison Margiela, Vivienne Westwood, Viktor & Rolf)
Richemont (Cartier, Alaia, Chloe, Van Cleef & Arpels)
PUIG (JPG, Carolina Herrera, Dries Van Noten, Paco Rabanne) 
Prada Group (Miu Miu, Prada)
Capri Holdings (Versace, Jimmy Choo, Michael Kors)


TECH

Question: What is the blueprint/manual called that contains all the components and step-by-step instructions on how to put your garment together, that's required for a manufacturer to turn your design into a finished product?

Answer: "tech pack" 




Question:
What movie does Michael J. Fox star in where he has a pair of automatically self-lacing Nike Shoes?

Answer:
"Back to the Future II." In 1989, shoe designer Tinker Hatflield was asked to create the Nikes worn by Marty McFly set in the then-futuristic year of 2015. To commemorate the movie in 2011 and 2016, Nike released limited-edition replicas of the "Back to the Future" shoes as the "Nike Mag" with real power-lacing technology.  


Question:
Who is the world's largest producer of chemical and science-based products, based in Wilmington, Delaware, that's responsible for developing dacron(polyester), nylon(stockings) and lycra(spandex) for "aerobic" sportswear?

Answer: Du Pont 

Question: Which Dutch Haute Couture Guest Member (since July 2011) frequently uses 3D printing and unconventional, hi-tech materials in their Fashion? 
Answer: Iris Van Herpen

Question: Which Italian Haute Couture Designer made the plunging jungle-print dress worn by J.Lo at the 2000 Grammys that changed Google's history? 
Answer: Versace made the green dress that J.Lo wore to the Grammys; it was the most searched query on Google, which led to "Google Images." 
Coming fulll circle, almost 20 years later, J.Lo closed the Versace SS2020 runway show during Milan Fashion Week, wearing an updated version of the iconic dress.