Frank Tell

The Spanish-born designer learned to design and sew at a trim and tailor shop owned by his grandmother. He launched his line in September 2007 with a collection inspired by 1920 s icons Josephine Baker and Louise Brooks, as well as the works of artists Georgia O Keefe and Ross Bleckner. Subsequent collections have in turn been inspired by French New-Wave Films, model Penelope Tree, singer Siouxsie Sioux, Elizabethan England, and the oeuvre of Louise Bourgeois.