#10. Valentino
Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, best known as Valentino, is an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Valentino SpA brand and company. His main lines include Valentino, Valentino Garavani, Valentino Roma and R.E.D. Valentino.
#9. Versace
The first Versace boutique was opened in Milan's Via della Spiga in 2000,and its popularity was immediate. Today, Versace is one of the world's leading international fashion houses. Versace designs, markets, and distributes luxury clothing, accessories, makeup, and home furnishings under the various brands of the Versace Group. In 1994, the brand became a household name after the widespread coverage of the Black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley.
#8. Guess
Guess is an American clothing line brand. Guess also markets other fashion accessories besides clothes, such as watches, jewelry and perfumes. The company also owns the line Marciano.
#7. Dior
Dior is known for its highly sophisticated, glamour, elegance, modernized and prestige clothing designs. Its quality products with latest fashion trends are regarded as status symbol. These highly expensive products attracts women from fashion industry as well. The prestigious reputation of Dior has been enhanced after including new products like perfumes, bags, sun glasses, women wear and other fashion wearing. There are various other items which are being marketed and exported by Dior to other countries but the most appreciable fabric wearing is the female purse and handbags.
#6. Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, with over 200 retail stores in 80 countries.
He has been the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton since 1997. Jacobs was on Time magazine's "2010 Time 100" list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and ranked number 14 on Out magazine's 2012 list of "50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America".
#5. Armani
Giorgio Armani S.p.A. is an international Italian fashion house founded by Giorgio Armani, which designs, manufactures, distributes, and retails haute couture, ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes, watches, jewelry, accessories, eyewear, cosmetics, and home interiors. The brand markets these products under several sub-labels, including Giorgio Armani, Armani Collezioni, Emporio Armani, AJ | Armani Jeans, AX | Armani Exchange, Armani Junior, and Armani/Casa. The brand utilizes the association of the Armani name with with high-fashion, benefitting from its prestige in the fashion industry. By the end of 2005, estimated sales of the company were around $1.69 billion.
#4. Dolce and Gabbana
Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian luxury industry fashion house. The company was started by Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. By 2005 their turnover was 597 million pound.
The two met in Milan in 1980 and worked for the same fashion house. In 1982 they established a designer consulting studio in time it grew to become "Dolce & Gabbana".
They presented their first women's collection in 1985 in Milan, where a year later their store would open its doors.
#3. Prada
Prada S.p.A. is an Italian fashion label specializing in luxury goods for men and women, founded in 1913 by Mario Prada.
#2. Chanel
Chanel S.A. is a French privately held company owned by Alain Wertheimer and Gerard Wertheimer, grandsons of Pierre Wertheimer, who was an early business partner of the couturiere Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel.
Chanel S.A. is a high fashion brand that specializes in haute couture and ready-to-wear clothes, luxury goods and fashion accessories. In her youth, Gabrielle Chanel gained the nickname Coco from her time as a chanteuse.
As a fashion designer, Coco Chanel catered to women's taste for elegance in dress, with blouses and suits, trousers and dresses, and jewelery of simple design, that replaced the opulent, over-designed, and constrictive clothes and accessories of 19th-century fashion.
#1. Gucci
Guccio Gucci, better known simply as Gucci, is an Italian fashion and leather goods brand, part of the Gucci Group, which is owned by French company Kering formerly known as PPR. Gucci was founded by Guccio Gucci in Florence in 1921.
