Miami native a Colombian-American designer Brian Reyes moved to New York at age 17 to pursue a career in fashion. After earning considerable hands-on design experience working with fashion icons Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors and Oscar De La Renta, Brian Reyes in 2004, Brian Reyes launched his ready-to-wear collection at the young age of 24.  Reyes is best known for his complex designs and romantic fabrics with a modern twist.

Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer of Hungarian origin who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry. Klein was born in The Bronx to Jewish-Hungarian immigrants. He attended the High School of Art and Design and matriculated at, but never graduated from…

Carly Cushnie is one half of Cushnie et Ochs. She was born and raised in London. After graduating high school she attended Parsons School of Design in both Paris and New York, where she completed a BA in Fashion Design. While attending Parsons she was hired as a design intern at Donna Karen, where she developed a strong sense of drape and movement. Later she joined the team as a design intern at Proenza Schouler.

Born Maria Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Nino in Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas on January 8, 1939, she was one of four daughters in a family whose roots on the continent stretched back to the 1500s. Her father  Guillermo Pacanins Acevedo, an aviation pioneer, served as governor of Caracas and was twice the country’s foreign affairs minister. Herrera’s mother and grandmother were chic women who regularly traveled to Paris to have…

A passion for couture gowns took a hold of Caroline Seikaly at a very young age. She has been drawing and designing for as long as she can remember. Having grown up in the United States, Caroline Seikaly studied fashion design at the Rhode Island School of Design, during which she interned at Issac Mizrahi in N.Y.C., she fluorished in a rich artistic environment of photography, design and fine arts.

Born in Grenoble, in the French Alps from Italian parents, Catherine Malandrino had ambitions to be a global luxury designer from a very young age, sketching dresses as a child. She began her professional career in Paris after graduating from Esmod. Subsequently, she worked in the fashion houses of Dorothee Bis, Louis Feraud, Emanuel Ungaro, and in the 1990s, was the creative force at the French label “Et Vous”.