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Book top models to show off your designs. If you have lots of money, hire a supermodel and you’ll be taken seriously.

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In 1990, Canadian supermodel Linda Evangelista famously said: “We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.” She was talking about the huge amounts of money that top models were paid.

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1873

Levi Strauss creates the first pair of copper-riveted waist overalls, also known as blue jeans

1913

Paul Poiret is one of the first designers to create trousers for women - he called his loose-legged design “harem pants"

1917

Bastketball player Chuck Taylor adopts Converse Ali-Star as his preferrred shoe, leading to a long-lasting fashion craze

1947

Christian Dior’s New Look makes skirts fuli and the desired female form curvy

1954

French shoe designer Roger Vivier creates the first stiletto heel

1960

The classic 1460 Dr. Martens boot is created

1964

Andre Courreges brings the mini skirt into high fashion

Coco Chanel

Little black dress (1920s)

Christian Dior

New Look (1947)

Andre Courreges

Space Age (1960S)

Yves Saint Laurent

Le Smoking tuxedo (1970s)

Calvin Klein

Designer jeanswear (1970s)

Vivienne Westwood

New Romantic pirate-look (1980s)

JEANS

01: The name jeans comes from the French bleu de Genes which means “blue of Genoa.”

02: True jeans must be madę of denim - a cotton fabric -and dyed indigo blue.

03: In the 1850s, merchant Levi Strauss began selling blue jeans to miners in Califomia loołang for gold.

04: In 1873, on the suggestion of one of his customers, Jacob Davis, Strauss began using copper rivets to reinforce weak points, Uke the corners of pockets and the base of the button fly.

05: In 1886, Strauss branded his jeans with a label showing a pair of horses trying to rip apart a pair of jeans, to show how tough the jeans were.

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