SAMPLE: 100 fashion designers, 10 curators

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SAMPLE takes its place in a series of surveys identifying 100 of the most interesting, cutting-edge practitioners of key art forms. Earlier surveys include cream and Fresh Cream, for contemporary art, 10x10 for architecture, BLINK for photography, Spoon for design and Area for graphic design.

Tim Blanks (London) hosts Fashion File, a magazine-style TV show, which takes an enthusiastic but clear-eyed view of the fashion world. Patricia Carta (Sao Paulo) is managing director of Carta Editorial, the Brazilian publisher of Vogue, Casa Vogue and Vogue Men. Ulrich Lehmann (London) is tutor of the post-graduate course in History of Design, run jointly by the Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Alexander McQueen (London) is one of the most famous and respected international fashion designers in the world. Arianne Phillips (Los Angeles) works as a costume designer in Los Angeles and collaborates with Madonna, styling her for film, music videos, the theatre and the concert stage. Harriet Quick (London) is fashion features editor of British Vogue. Stephen Todd (Paris) is editorial director for a collection of fashion and culture publications produced by Editions Dit-Voir, France. Kyoichi Tsuzuki (Tokyo) is a writer editor and photographer. In 2003 the Center National de la Photographie in Paris and London's Photographers' Gallery exhibited his portraits of obsessive Japanese consumers. Walter Van Beirendonck (Antwerp) is a Belgian fashion designer and professor in the fashion department at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Brana Wolf (New York) is fashion editor-at-large for Harper's Bazaar in New York and collaborates as a stylist with Steven Meisel for Italian Vogue.

'Part museum exhibition, part encyclopedia - profile[s] talent from fashion capitals to far-flung outposts. Rich, visual layouts combine unseen sketches, illustrations, prints and fabric swatches along with ad campaigns and shows. And if that isn't enough to get this on this season's 'must have' list, then the cover, pleated like a white Chanel skirt, complete with belt and pages cut on sharp slanted sections, make this a fashion accessory in its own right' The Guardian, June 2005 'a beautfiully presented, visual and insightful book that is to be seen on the most stylish coffee tables. ... definitive ... pages brimming with beautiful visuals' International Textiles, June 2005 'Part coffee-table book, part future-fashion bible - stunning' Independent on Sunday, 26 June 2005