Analyzing the Signature Looks of Some of Our Favorite Designers

The fashion historian Valerie Steele once told us that she wears "a kind of uniform, like many people in fashion." But in particular, designers' daily outfits tend to go beyond simple guidelines for dressing and become artistic statements that are almost as important as the clothes they send down the runway. Case in point: Most photos of Prabal Gurung feature him wearing a t-shirt and slim-fitting jeans that make him look like nothing so much as a certain rebel without a cause. Carolina Herrera ...