Carolina Herrera

Crisp white shirt, worn with everything up to a full-length evening skirt Proof that a uniform can be glamorous. Herrera grew up riding horses in Caracas in white shirts and jodhpurs, and as a designer she turned that childhood uniform into effortless evening dress. Her signature black-tie look is the white shirt with a full floor-length skirt, a pairing so closely tied to her that one fashion editor called her Our Lady of the Sleeves. What it achieved was an identity that doubles as a house style: the white shirt says Carolina Herrera the way the turtleneck says Jobs, and her own example shows it working for an evening as easily as a working day.