Michael Kors

Michael Kors has been devoted to luxurious, mix-and-match clothes since he was nineteen, when he dropped out of Fashion Institute of Technology and started designing for a small boutique on Manhattan's Upper East Side. His first collection under his own name, in 1981, was cut entirely in sleek, easy-to-wear black and brown jersey. His clothes have never lost that clarity, that versatility, that American, self-possessed, no-brainer chic.