The Rodeo Drive Walk of Style, located on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, commemorates people who have made important contributions to fashion, design, and costume.
The Rodeo Drive Walk of Style, located on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, commemorates people who have made important contributions to fashion, design, and costume.
The "Walk of Style" was founded in 2003 by the City of Beverly Hills and the Rodeo Drive Committee. [1] Fred Hayman, who is known as "the father of Rodeo Drive," was involved in conceptualizing and creating the idea of the Walk of Style. [2] He himself was granted the honor in 2011. [2] The Walk features a statue called Torso by sculptor Robert Graham, which was unveiled at its founding ceremony, attended by Giorgio Armani, the first honoree. [3] The sculpture was designed by Graham specifically for the Walk of Style. [4] Like the more famous Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Walk of Style has bronze plaques set into the sidewalk for each person being honored. [3] The plaques feature an idealized representation of Graham's sculpture. Each honoree is also awarded a miniature version of Graham's sculpture to mark the occasion. [5]
Donatella Francesca Versace, sometimes simply referred to mononymously as Donatella, is an Italian fashion designer, businesswoman, socialite, and model. She is the sister of Gianni Versace, founder of the luxury fashion company Versace, with whom she worked closely on the development of the brand and in particular its combining of Italian luxury with pop culture and celebrity.
Rodeo Drive is a two-mile-long (3.2 km) street in Beverly Hills, California, with its southern segment in the City of Los Angeles, known as one of the most expensive streets in the world. Its southern terminus is at Beverwil Drive, and its northern terminus is at its intersection with Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. The name is most commonly used metonymically to refer to the three-block stretch of the street between Wilshire Boulevard and Little Santa Monica Boulevard.
James Galanos was an American fashion designer and couturier. Galanos is known for designing clothing for America's social elite, including Nancy Reagan, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and others.
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Bijan Pakzad, generally known mononymously as Bijan, was an Iranian designer of menswear and fragrances.
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Giorgio di Sant' Angelo (Jorge Alberto Imperatrice), commonly known as Giorgio Sant'Angelo, (1933–1989) was an Italian/Argentinian fashion designer based in the United States. He was known for creating ethnic-inspired looks early in his career, for which he won the prestigious American Coty Fashion Critic's award in 1968 and in 1970. Using fabrics like tie-dyed chiffon, leather and cotton, he created romantic clothing that reflected the hippie culture of the era. But his innovative use of knitwear, which he continuously developed throughout his career, was often his signature and was an influence on other designers.
Italian design refers to all forms of design in Italy, including interior design, urban design, fashion design, and architectural design. Italy is recognized as a worldwide trendsetter and leader in design. The architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni claimed, "Quite simply, we are the best. We have more imagination, more culture, and are better mediators between the past and the future". Italy today still exerts a vast influence on urban design, industrial design, interior design, and fashion design worldwide.
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But back in 1964, when Fred Hayman started building his Giorgio Beverly Hills shop, Rodeo Drive was just a regular city street, with a grocer, a gas station and a hardware store. Hayman became its ambassador. He envisioned the street as an elegant home to the finest designers and boutiques, a magnet for starlets and socialites, like an American Champs-Elysees, a sexy, fun, camera-ready intersection of Hollywood and fashion. It's for his vision – which became reality – that the 86-year-old entrepreneur became the latest inductee to the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style , an award and concept that Hayman helped create to honor designers and retailers for their contributions to fashion and entertainment, and to promote the street he loves.
Cabe señalar que Salvatore Ferragamo es el octavo en recibir el Rodeo Drive Walk of Style , premio que se entregó por primavera vez en 2003 a Giorgio Armani y a quien le siguió Tom Ford en el 2004, Herb Ritts y Mario Testino en el 2005 y Edith Head , James Acheson y Milena Canonero en el 2006.
Yet when Donatella, as everyone calls her, is in residence, the glamour quotient rises, even at a legendarily fashionable place. Her celebrity friends turn up, for one thing -- the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Rupert Everett and Cindy Crawford. And since the centerpiece of her visit is celebrating a Rodeo Drive Walk of Style award given to her and her late brother, Gianni, on an otherwise quiet Monday afternoon, the hotel lobby is taken over by a crowd of chiseled young models. A few giraffe-girls with Slavic accents drape themselves over the furniture -- they will hover in the background of one of Donatella's television interviews wearing killer Versace gowns.
Blahnik 's shoes are a perennial on Hollywood red carpets -- as common as Spanx and cleavage tape. Last week, Hollywood thanked the designer for his contributions to the entertainment and fashion industries by awarding him the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award.
Only last month, [Anne] Hathaway introduced the recently-retired Roman couturier Valentino Garavani when he picked up the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style award in Los Angeles. "I knew it would be a great challenge to be perfect in Valentino for Valentino," she said. "At my first fitting, I put the dress on backwards. Luckily there were strategically placed sequins." Hmmm.
Famous film fashionistas converged on the corner of Rodeo Drive and Wilshire Boulevard on Thursday night to celebrate one of their own, as Princess Grace of Monaco was posthumously honored for her iconic fashion sense with the Rodeo Walk of Style Award. The late princess, better known as Grace Kelly, shared the spotlight with Cartier jewelers, as both were given the prestigious award in a ceremony that shut down the street described as 'the epicenter of fashion.'
Family members of the late fashion editor Diana Vreeland celebrated Vreeland 's posthumous induction into the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Monday morning. The ceremony, which was sponsored by the Rodeo Drive Committee and City of Beverly Hills, involved dedicating a plaque on Rodeo Drive with Vreeland 's signature and quote: 'You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it you're nobody.'
Bulgari became the twentieth recipient of the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award, on Dec. 5, 2012. Nicola Bulgari , grandson of founder Sotirio Bulgari , was presented with a plaque with a personal quote that reads, 'Style is an everlasting impression and jewelry is a passion that is passed through generations.'