Without fail, each decade produces one maverick fashion designer whose forward vision and unique execution of that forward vision essentially summarizes the visual identity of its time.

The 50's emitted Balenciaga. The 60's Couregges, the 70's Yves St. Laurent and even the god forsaken 80's conjured up Gaultier, names that now reek of revoloutionary innovation. During the course of the 90's only one designer has managed to channel the digital turbulence, the post-nihilist trauma, the sheer fin de siècle mess of these millennial times.