The incredibly stylish woman above is indeed Elsa Schiaparelli – which was correctly guessed by Aja! (Sorry, we don’t have your last name on the comment!) Mrs. Schiaparelli was born in Italy, but her true artistic talents were realized when she moved to Paris. Mrs. Schiaparelli first began designing with encouragement from the famed couturier Paul Poiret. Unfortunately, after only a few years her business closed despite glowing reviews. Not to be deterred, she launched a collection of knitwear in 1927, featuring sweaters with surrealist images. Her first collection was featured in Vogue, and her career took off. She expanded her line to include sportswear and evening wear – a few of her evening wear pieces even made it into The Impossible Collection of Fashion. Schiaparelli was lauded as one of the most innovative fashion designers of her time, which brings us to the clues.

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It’s time for another edition of our Who’s That? Contest!

Clue #1: Colored zippers

Clue #2: Lobster

Clue #3: Hats

Tell us who you think this gal is in the comments below! Be sure to include the significance of the clues and why she is important in the fashion world! We’ll post the answer on Thursday!

This amazing woman is Eleanor Lambert – creator of the fashion public relations industry, founder of the Costume Institute at the Met, the CFDA, and the International Best Dressed List, creator of Fashion Week – her list of accomplishments honestly goes on and on. Basically, the fashion industry would not exist as it does today if it weren’t for Miss Lambert, one of the hardest working women of all time.

Congrats to Yufei and Brenda M who both guessed correctly!! You will both receive a ticket to Thread Show SF!

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Today we are reviving an old Fashion School Daily column that many have missed – the Who’s That? Contests. We’ll show you a photograph of the fashionable persona in question and give you a few clues – and it’s your job to guess the famous face! Just write your answer in the comments below (you’ll have to register with WordPress – but it only takes  a second!). Be sure to tell us why this person is so amazing in the comments too! And this week we are giving away a prize to the first person with the correct answer – a free ticket to Thread Show San Francisco, a trade show with the best and brightest from local designers, artisans, beauty companies, and more!

Here are your clues:

1. She represented almost everyone in fashion including Norman Norell, Halston, Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta, Christian Dior, Pierre Cardin, James Galanos, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren, and many more.

2. She created fashion week by organizing a schedule for designers to present collections to the international and regional press. She then began a similar schedule for Europe.

3. She founded the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

4. She founded the Council of Fashion Designers of America

5. She founded the International Best Dressed List

Alright – we’ve given you a lot of hints, so get guessing! Entries will be accepted until noon on Thursday, November 10. Good luck!

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Fashion School Daily reader, Larnie was correct! The clues all pertained to the gentleman William Ivey Long, costume designer extraordinaire:

Mr. Long has won many Tony Awards and is considered an icon when it comes to costuming legendary Broadway musicals and plays including “The Producers,” “Nine,” “Crazy for You,” “Grey Gardens” and “Young Frankenstein.”

Larnie even answered all of the picture clues correctly:

1.) The first picture was of the touring production of the “”Dreamgirls”. William designed the costumes for the revival of this legendary musical.

2.) The second picture was a can of Ultra Clutch hairspray; the official brand of hairspray for the musical appropriately called “Hairspray”, which was adapted from the John Waters movie of the same name. William also designed the costumes.

3.) The third picture is of Natasha Richardson and John C. Reilly in the Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire”. And guess what William did? Yes — he designed the costumes!

And for all of you who are in San Francisco, you can see his costumes in the touring production of “Dreamgirls” at the Curran Theatre through September 26.

This week for our Who’s That? contest, I’m going to do something a bit different. I am going to give you three pictures and you have to find the person (in this case, a guy) that links them all together. When you guess, please give us a full explanation of how the pictures are related to the guy. It’s pretty much the exact opposite in what we’ve been doing.

Got it? Good. Here are the three visual clues:

Remember to tell us how the guy in question is related to these pictures — and stay tuned for the answer on Friday!

The lovely lady shown here is Nati Abascal (who is dressed in Lanvin, by the way). She was a cover girl for Bazaar in the ’60s and was a muse for Valentino. She also starred in Woody Allen’s film Bananas in 1971. She has also worked as a stylist for Hola! magazine. According to Wikipedia, her full name is Natividad Abascal y Romero-Toro — which is a mouthful. Good thing she shortened it. Here’s another pic of her for you to marvel at:

Congrats to our own Gladys Perint Palmer for answering and to Sarah Baker for getting most of the clues right!

Stay tuned for next week’s beloved round of Who’s That?

It’s time for the most intense guessing game of the week! Can you guess who this girl is?

Clue #1: Hola.

Clue #2: Bananas.

Clue #3: Muse.

As always, please enter your answer in the comment area below. Make sure you tell us why this lady is fancy. And what do these obscure clues mean? (Bonus points if you know who made her dress.)

Yup. The group pictured in this week’s Who’s That? Contest was Missing Persons, the New Wave band that rolled with Frank Zappa.

Congrats to DiAndra Fry who was the only one to guess right! Actually, she was the only one who answered — but she knew the answers to the clues:

- Dale Bozzio (the lead singer) worked as a Playboy Bunny.

- Missing persons ads often appear on milk cartons.

- “Words” was one of the band’s songs.

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It’s time for our weekly “Who’s that?” contest — and this time we are giving you a group of people:

Clue #1: Playboy

Clue #2: Milk carton

Clue #3: Words

As always, please enter your answer in the comment area below. Make sure you tell us why these folks are cool and it would be awesome if you could tell us what the meaning of these weird clues.