“The Italians have a way of making everything easy,” WWD wrote in 1980, marking the rise of Italian luxury ready-to-wear and Milan’s emergence as its design center, taking over from Rome. Established ...

Armani brought power suits into the American fashion lexicon in the 1980s and has dressed every Hollywood A-lister Colleen Kratofil is the Senior Editor, TV at PEOPLE. Legendary fashion designer ...

In the 1970s and ’80s, Chicago fashion designers held their own against the top names in the industry. Today, the city’s design scene is coming back in its own way. When teacher Emily Porter showed up ...