This designer who started on the scene with dramatic club wear and outré cuts has grown up to create sophisticated designs for both men and women, but he never lost his innate sense of drama. He is a risk-taker who invests even his casual signature pieces – tank tops, dresses – with a sense of the spectacular, thanks in most part to his original take on cuts. He trades in a very simple palette – all-black, all-white, or an occasional mix of the two – and stays focused on refining the most interesting and flattering shapes he can from season to season. This means cocktail dresses that will (tastefully) turn every head in the room, as well as everyday outfits that make a trip to the grocery store extraordinary.