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Cher Coulter is a British celebrity stylist and fashion designer. She is known for her list of celebrity clientele, including Sienna Miller, Kate Bosworth, Elizabeth Olsen, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. [1] [2]
Since the age of 15, Coulter has worked in the London fashion industry in all venues, from helping organize ID magazine photoshoots, coloring sketches for Vivienne Westwood, to dressing models at shows at the age of 17, [3] including Hermès. She received a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design in 1992 from St. Albans College of Art and Design in London and a Fashion Design at Diploma Level from London’s Southend College of Art and Design in 1993. Afterwards, she attended Central St. Martins [2] [3] from 1993 to 1996, honing her creativity in the company of designers like Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, and Phoebe Philo. She graduated with her bachelor's degree in Fashion Design in 1996.
Coulter co-founded the UK Menswear brand, AKA, [4] with fashion designer Anne Marie Ng, acknowledged for its "highly desirable collection of relaxed tailoring" [5] which sold at Colette in Paris, Barneys, Bergdorf's in New York City and distributed from Paris to Japan. Together they designed and produced stage outfits for the female band All Saints [6] [7] [8] as well as T-shirts for Hugh Grant in the movie About a Boy [9] [10] and commissions for Game Boy. [11] Some celebrity fans of the brand included Kate Moss, Liam Gallagher, and David Beckham. From 1996 to 2003, she also designed women’s wear under a private label [ citation needed ] for Urban Outfitters and consulted with their buyers on a monthly basis.
Apart from AKA, Coulter, designed a line of clothes for Richard Ashcroft, and tour T-shirts for the band, Starsailor. Other design accomplishments include T-shirts for Keira Knightley, and T-shirts based on About a Boy for the House of Fraser, clothes for Virgin Music, and a limited edition tracksuit for Pro-Keds.
Coulter is currently a stylist in Los Angeles and New York, working alongside the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Francisco Costa, and Alexander Wang. She styled Sienna Miller for her GI Joe World Tour, Robin Wright for Cannes, Orlando Bloom, Jason Statham, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Eric Bana, Elizabeth Olsen, Nicole Richie, and has been Kate Bosworth’s stylist since 2006. [3] Coulter also finds time to do fashion editorial work for fashion magazines, such as Nylon , Vogue , Elle , Bergdorf Goodman , and Marie Claire [2] and ad campaigns for the likes of Diesel, Shiseido, L'Oreal, and BCBG. Her most recent project is a jewelry line designed with friend and actress Kate Bosworth, called JewelMint. [2]
JewelMint, the first vertical of MySpace co-founder Josh Berman [12] and Diego Berdakin’s social commerce company BeachMint, is a jewelry site with designs exclusively by Coulter and Bosworth. The two paired with the company to create a line of affordable fashion jewelry. [13] The premise of the site is that members receive a new piece of jewelry each month from the personalized choices recommended to them by their JewelMint Style Quiz results. [13] JewelMint has been featured in the Los Angeles Times , [14] InStyle , [15] Teen Vogue , [16] C, [17] People StyleWatch , [18] InTouch Weekly , [19] and OK! magazine. [20]
Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Fuller Olsen, also known as the Olsen twins as a duo, are American fashion designers and former actresses. The twins made their acting debut as infants playing Michelle Tanner on the television series Full House. At the age of six, Mary-Kate and Ashley began starring together in other TV shows, film, and video projects, which continued to their teenage years. Through their company Dualstar, the Olsens joined the ranks of the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry at a young age.
Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for his own fashion label, Marc Jacobs, and formerly Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, which was produced for approximately 15 years, before it was discontinued after the 2015 fall/winter collection. At its peak, there were over 200 retail stores in 80 countries. He was the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2014. Jacobs was on Time magazine's "2010 Time 100" list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and was #14 on Out magazine's 2012 list of "50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America". He was married on April 6, 2019, to his long time partner, Charly Defrancesco.
Michael David Kors is an American fashion designer. He is the honorary chairman and chief creative officer of his brand, Michael Kors, which sells men's and women's ready-to-wear, accessories, watches, jewelry, footwear, and fragrance. Kors was the first women's ready-to-wear designer for the French house Celine, from 1997 to 2003. On January 2, 2019, Michael Kors Holdings Limited officially changed its name to Capri Holdings Limited. Michael Kors, Jimmy Choo, and Versace are the three founder-led brands under Capri Holdings Limited.
Boho-chic is a style of fashion drawing on various bohemian and hippie influences, which, at its height in late 2005 was associated particularly with actress Sienna Miller, model Kate Moss in the United Kingdom and actress/businesswoman Mary-Kate Olsen in the United States. It has been seen since the early 1990s and, although appearing to wane from time to time, has repeatedly re-surfaced in varying guises. Many elements of boho-chic became popular in the late 1960s and some date back much further, being associated, for example, with pre-Raphaelite women of the mid-to-late 19th century.
Robert Verdi is an American TV personality and style expert. He is known for hosting a variety of TV programs featuring fashion and interior design.
House of Harlow 1960 is a lifestyle brand founded by actress, television personality and fashion designer Nicole Richie. In 2008, Richie launched a jewelry line titled House of Harlow 1960. In spring 2010, the line was extended to include apparel and shoes. House of Harlow 1960 later became a lifestyle brand including eyewear, swimwear, home fragrance, and accessories. In 2010 Richie won "Entrepreneur of the Year" at Glamour Women of the Year Awards for her House of Harlow 1960 brand.
Catherine Anne Bosworth is an American actress and model. Following minor roles in the films The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Remember the Titans (2000), she rose to prominence with her role as a young surfer in the box-office hit Blue Crush (2002).
Alexis Bittar is the designer and CEO of the eponymous jewelry and lifestyle brand. He was credited for reviving the art costume jewelry movement in the 1990s.
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Isabel Marant is a French fashion designer, owner of the eponymous fashion brand. She won the Award de la Mode (1997), the Whirlpool Award for best female designer (1998), Fashion Designer of the Year at British Glamour's Women of the Year Awards (2012). She was named Contemporary Designer of the Year at the Elle Style Awards in 2014. Her collaboration with H&M in 2013 was so successful that company's website crashed under the demand and the collection was sold out within 45 minutes. Celebrities wearing Marant's designs include Alexa Chung, Katie Holmes, Victoria Beckham, Kate Moss, Sienna Miller, Kate Bosworth, and Rachel Weisz.
Eric Daman is a costume designer, fashion model, television personality, and author from New York City. Known for costume design and fashion styling on the American television series Sex and the City and Gossip Girl as well as designs for various products.
Richard Philip Nicoll was an English fashion designer, best known for his work on modernist classics with the coined term "night-to-day" versatility.
Ashley Fuller Olsen is an American fashion designer, businesswoman, and former actress. She began her acting career at the age of nine months, sharing the role of Michelle Tanner with her twin sister Mary-Kate Olsen in the television sitcom, Full House (1987–1995). They also starred in numerous films together.
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Ashton Michael is an American fashion designer and celebrity wardrobe stylist based in Los Angeles.
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