Laura Eceiza (Barcelona, Spain) is a sociologist with a doctorate in communication and cultural communication from the Complutense University in Madrid. She began her professional career combining work as a writer for Canal Estilo (E!) and as a "sociology of fashion" professor at the European Design Institute, with whom she collaborates to this day. She has taught trend workshops in different institutions and she presently collaborates with Canal 14 as a stylist, and Label networks as a coolhunter.

Current fashion is a complex phenomenon. In a constant state of constant flux, contemporary fashion combines a mix of the different cultural aspects that inform the modern individual. Atlas of Fashion Designers is born out of this proposition, and features a compilation of the most important fashion designers and their work in the past five years, selected from a multi-disciplinary perspective that display the heterogeneous mix of today's fashion world.

Featured designers all have one trait in common: they were singled out, not only for the quality of their work, but also because they illustrate different perspectives in their approach to fashion. This book includes designers with a wide array of visions, from classical haute couture to those who experiment with developing fields such as anthropology, new textiles, high technology, architecture, art, or recycling. From Ricardo Tiscci, Nicholas Ghesquiere to Sybilla, to artists who are primarily concerned with pure fashion such as Lucy Orta, or to those investigators who concern themselves with innovation in the fields of textile research and technology, such as Issey Miyake or Hussein Chalayan.

Atlas of Fashion Designers is a very relevant and useful reference in a hybrid society, which is composed of ever increasing heterogeneous elements. By offering a synthetic, fluid and diverse approach to the subject, the "Atlas" draws a map of the complex world of fashion at present time, and looks forward to what it may be tomorrow.

Fashion identity; diversity and design around the world

Addy van den Krommenacker

Alber Elbaz (Lanvin)

Alena Akhmadullina

Alexander Wang

Alexandra Moura

Angel Sainchez

Anunciacao

Ashish

Avsh Alom Gur

Basso & Brooke

Bernhard Willhelm

Blanc de Chine

Bless

Bora Aksu

Cathy Pill

Claudia Rosa Lukas

Clements Ribeiro

Costume National

Craig Robinson

Deepak Perwani

Denis Simachev

Eley Kishimoto

Fukuko Ando

H. Fredriksson

Helen Storey

Henrik Vibskov

Hikaru Katano

Igor Chapurin

Ilia Visser

Isabela Capeto

Jens Laugesen

Jeremy Laing

Jeroen van Tuyl

Joe Casely-Hayford

Jorge Luis Salinas

Jose Ram6n Reyes

Josep Font

Josh Goot

Julia y Renata

Kanya Miki

Karen Walker

Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel)

Karlla Girotto

Katarzyna Szczotarska

Kim Jones

Kostas Murkudis

Lie Sang Bong

Maison Martin Margiela

Manish Arora

Maria Cornejo

Martin Grant

Mikio Sakabe

mina perhonen

Neil Barrett

Nina Donis

Pablo Ramirez

Rick Owens

Spastor

Sun Goddess

Susan Cianciolo

Sybilla

Temperley London

Thorn Browne

Timothy Everest

Unconditional

Vero Ivaldi

Viktor & Rolf

Walter Van Beirendonck

Yigal Azrouel