The Fashion Elite

From Jacobs to Wintour, New York has got it all when it comes to fashion design. Its fashion weeks are famed, its designers are denizens of style itself, and its garment district is one of the biggest in the fashion design world. Home to hundreds of designers of clothing, architecture, and media projects, New York is a hotbed of fashion industry leaders.

The Fashion Pull of New York

Some shows at fashion week are a mere seven minutes long. So why do thousands line up outside the tents in Bryant Park for fashion week every spring and fall? Because New York is the main hub of fashion design in the US--and for good reason.
If you are looking for a fashion design career, and you're willing to go up against harrowing competition, look no further; you've found your place.

The Fashion Design Elite

Take a look at these three principals of fashion design who have made New York their home base for fashion design revolution:

• Marc Jacobs: Not only is he the creator of an expensive and extremely successful clothing line, he is also the creative director of Louis Vuitton. His runway fashion design is more bulky and billowing, but his everyday fashion has reached peak popularity in fashion design.
• Ralph Lauren: Taking fashion design over the consumer bridge to merchandise has been Ralph Lauren's specialty; you can even paint your bedroom walls with his fashionable paint. He recently gained even more global acclaim (if possible) by landing the contract for this year's Wimbledon staff clothing--one of those random fashion design jobs reserved for the cream of the crop.
• Anna Wintour: Known in New York primarily as the editor-in chief of Vogue magazine, she has also made huge contributions to fashion design, including the $26 million she raised for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute over the past 11 years.

Sources
The New York Times
Slate

Joe Cooper is a freelance education and technology writer and edits medical literature. He holds a bachelor's in American Literature from UCLA.