From Beijing to Chicago, Fashion Designer Cyndi Chan reaches out far and wide delighting both socialites and fashion enthusiasts alike. Her saliency as a crafter of fine fabric has earned her notoriety on the runway, in the media, and inside the covers of well-known publications across Asia and Ameri
The youngest granddaughter of Prada founder Mario Prada, she and her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, took over the family-owned luxury goods manufacturer in 1978. Since then, they've turned it into a fashion powerhouse, acquiring Jil Sander, Helmut Lang and shoemaker Church & Co.
Paul Poiret was born on April 20th, 1879 to a cloth merchant in the neighborhood of Les Halles, Paris. When Poiret was a teenager he took some of his sketches to Madame Cheruit, a dressmaker, who purchased a dozen from him. He continued to sell his sketches until he was hired by Jacques Doucet in 189