Chloe
Phoebe Philo's fresh designs speak in a thick girly accent.

Madeleine Vionnet
One of the grandes dames of the haute couture.

Yves Saint Laurent
Forever Paris with a capital "P."

Jean Paul Gaultier
The perennial provocateur of French fashion.

Balenciage
Nicolas Ghesquière put the defib paddles to the once clinically-dead house.