Passion and dedication - these are perhaps the most important features inherent in each" of the heroes of this book. Amazing fashion achievements of the 21st century would not have been possible without Marie Vernet. Madeleine Vionne, Nadezhda Lamanova, Elsa Schiaparelli, Chanel, Twiggy, Sonya Rickel, Mary Quant, Vivienne Westwood, Elena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden, Estée Lauder. In this book, the author talks about trends in the development of fashion of the 19th - 21st centuries with the help of an impressive selection of facts from the life of those who created the world of fashion, who dominated the minds of millions, sometimes becoming a model of fashion for contemporaries.