The 10 Women-Run Fashion Houses Changing How We Dress - Refinery29

Posted: 08 Mar 2020 06:15 AM PDT

And yet, when it comes to designing, men continue to hold the majority of creative director roles at major brands. According to BOF's spring '17 fashion week study, only 40.2% of the 371 designers surveyed were female. Ralph Lauren, Tom Ford, Calvin Klein, Raf Simons now at Prada, Riccardo Tisci at Burberry, Hedi Slimane (who, in 2018, replaced a female as creative director) at Celine, Nicolas Ghesquière at Louis Vuitton, and Daniel Lee at Bottega Veneta — and that's just the Cliff Notes version. All that being said, though, the less-than 50% of brands led by female designers are consistently some of our favorites — a fact that shouldn't take anyone by surprise.