Steve Jobs wanted Apple employees to wear uniforms like at Sony, but resisted the idea. Instead, he wore black turtleneck shirts made for him by fashion designer Issey Miyake, having him make about 100 shirts. In the 1990s, Tom Ford spearheaded a provocative "porno-chic" strategy as creative director at Gucci that included sensual dresses and limited edition products like handcuffs. Vivienne Westwood designed a wedding dress for a character in Sex and the City. Peter Lindbergh photographed 15 women leaders including environmental and racial justice activists for British Vogue's "Forces of Change" cover in 2019, one of his last works before passing away.

2. Maîtres du jeu
Masters of the Game

3. Q 1
In 1980, post observing the Sony Employees at Japan
don a uniform, Steve Jobs wanted to implement the
same at Apple. His plan was resisted, but Jobs stuck to
his Black signature Turtleneck.
To quote Jobs , "So I asked X to make me some of his
black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a
hundred of them.”
Identify this fashion designer X that Steve Jobs
mentions.
The San Francisco Chronicle fashion editor Sylviia
Rubin credits X together with Babette Pinsky with
"reinventing" the Fortuny pleat in the 1980s.

5. A 1
X = Issey Miyake

6. Q 2
When Dawn Melo was hired as Gucci’s executive
vice president, she overhauled the women's ready-
to-wear collection. The 1995 collection sensual
white dresses with provocative cut-outs, became
an instant hit.
Gucci also launched provocative products in
limited edition such as silver handcuffs, a G-String
and provocative ad campaigns in a strategy
known as the Porno-Chic Revival.
Who was the designer spearheading this
strategy ?

7. A 2
Tom Ford

8. Q 3
In a 2008 movie adapted from a cult television
series at HBO by Darren Star, the Fashionista
Heroine is a writer at Vogue. Her editor asks
her to model for a wedding dress by a famous
designer. The dress is subsequently sent to her
as a gift, with a handwritten note from the
designer herself.
Name the designer and the cult
movie/Television series I am talking about.
Hint : She designed clothes for Malcom
McLaren’s Boutique and the name of the
Boutique was the starting word of the series

9. Vivienne WestWood
Sex and The City
A 3

10. Q 4
Fill in the Blanks

11. A 4
Pierre Cardin

12. Q 5
“Cars are like children; It’s hard to say that
any one is more special than the other .….
They all have identities; they have spirits
and characteristics that are truly endearing
in some way.”
Name the Designer whose short sleeved
shirts became collectibles while he
collected ritzy cars.
2011 Louvre hosted a 4 month long
exhibition of 17 of his cars

13. Ralph Lauren
A 5

14. The maisons de Couture
The Mansions of Fashion

15. Q 6
The Dutch Painter Piet Mondrian is regarded
as one of the pioneers of abstract art in the
20th century whose neoplasticism served as
an inspiration for the future.
In 1930s, French fashion designer Lola Prusac
designed a range of bags and luggage with
inlays of red, blue and yellow leather squares.
Name the fashion design studio who launched
these.

16. A 6

17. Q 7
Termed as "a king of French fashion" post
WWII, this Paris house outfitted stars
including Ava Gardner, Brigitte Bardot and
Marlene Dietrich. Evolving with the times, in
2019 the establishment announced the
capsule makeup collection in a collaboration
with cosmetics entrepreneur, Kylie Jenner, as
their “artistic director”.
Identify the fashion house

18. A 7

19. Q 8
Connect

20. A 8

21. Q 9
Connect

22. A 9

23. Q 10
A 2006 American comedy-drama film directed
by David Frankel featured Meryl Streep as a
powerful fashion magazine editor, and Anne
Hathaway as a college graduate who goes to
New York City and lands a job as her co-
assistant.
a) Identify the movie and the US Vogue editor
on whom Meryl Streep’s character was based
on.
b) How did this editor famously react at a
subsequent press screening ?

24. A 10
Anna Wintour
The "devil" really wore Prada: Although Anna Wintour
(inspiration for the protagonist, Miranda Priestly) was
not invited to the film's premiere, she did attend a
press screening, fittingly, in head-to-toe Prada.

25. The Avant Garde

26. What first of Yves Saint Laurent that changed the female wardrobe is
featured in Vogue April 1967 cover ?
Q 11

27. The Tuxedo
A 11

28. The British Vogue cover in 1990 featuring Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda
Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, and Tatjana Patitz, photographed by Peter Lindbergh
created a new term in the fashion industry. What word/term defined these Big
?
Q 12

29. A 12
Supermodels

30. Q 13
As a tribute on his 20th death anniversary,
Donatella Versace gathered some of the
`90s models Gianni used to work with and
dressed them all in variations of the iconic
metallic golden dress, that her brother
created and patented in 1982.
What was the patented name of this
metallic fabric that reminded one of a
very fine net ?

31. Oroton
A 13

32. Q 14
Launched in 1997 in Paris the initial strategy
of this network channel was to provide an
insider’s view of the fashion industry in a
unique, cosmopolitan style in partnerships
with many global brands.
Within the first 10 years of its existence, it
swiftly expanded its span in markets like
China, India, Australia, Africa and South
America.
Identify the channel and the program that
led to its ban in India in 2007

33. A 14

34. Q 15
In 2019 Vogue changed its stance to feature 15
women world-leaders who reshaped public life for
global good, and were personally chosen by The
Duchess of Sussex, and the editor in chief Edward
Enninful. The 16th slot appeared as a mirror to
include the reader as a part of collective change.
Who was the photographer who shot the 15
women for the cover titled “Forces for Change” ?
This was one of his last works.

35. A 15
Peter Lindbergh

36. The Indian Panorama

37. Q 16
He is the only Indian designer to be a part of all three
leading fashion weeks: New York, Milan and London.
Despite the international collaborations this designer
philanthropist remains a revivalist at heart. He runs a
project called ‘Save the Saree’ where he retails hand-
woven Indian sarees on a non-profit basis priced at Rs
3500, the entire proceeds of which goes to the
weavers of Murshidabad.
Identify this much loved designer of the Bollywood
divas, who styled Neha Dhupia as Frida Kahlo for a
calendar in 2006

38. Sabyasachi Mukherjee
A 16

39. Q 17
This painting entitled ‘Rang Mahotsav’ was
painted in 1950 by a 21 year old young painter,
of the Progressive Arts Group of Bombay, who
later became famous in another profession.
Two of her paintings ‘A Prayer’ (1952) and ‘A
Lady in Repose’ (1953) were recently auctioned
at the Princeps Gallery at Bombay on 2nd
December 2020.
Identify the Painter.

40. Bhanu Athaiya
A 17

41. Q 18
Identify the Indian designer featured by
Business Today in their Oct 2020 edition
celebrating India’s Most Powerful Women.
With a recent new #Netflix release, she
becomes the only Indian designer with
series title.

42. Masaba Gupta
A 18

43. Q 19
This is a Kansa (bronze – alloy of copper
and tin) tiffin career that is marketed as a
revivalist strategy of going back to the
routes by Tatacliq in their INDILUXE
category.
Name the designer who designs this
product

44. A 19

45. Q 20
“Men had such dull wardrobes….. In India, we have a
khazana of traditional clothes. Everybody was designing
for women but no one was designing for men. So, I
thought, why not me,” she said.
Name the visionary revivalist designer who designed
the wedding trousseau of these two grooms.
MF Husain, Russi Modi, Jagjit Singh, Kapil Dev, Sunil
Gavaskar, Al Gore, Ismail Merchant, Pranab Mukherjee,
TN Seshan, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma and Ustad Amjad
Ali Khan were also her clients besides many other high
profile ones.

46. Sharbari Dutta
A 20

47. Hasta La Vista !