What is left may well inspire the next generation of avant-garde designers 40 years from now.

That's what many of the avant-garde French designers have suggested.

Every fashionista knows this eminent selection of classic and avant-garde designers.

She changed clothes several times a day, preferring the fashions of London's avant-garde designers.

The new laissez-faire attitude has brought a group of previously avant-garde designers practically into the mainstream.

The avant-garde designers have been on this wavelength for a long time, and now they seem almost mainstream.

That a mass merchant and an avant-garde designer hit upon the same idea is no coincidence.

Take three avant-garde designers, ask them for their ideas on lingerie, and you're likely to get the unexpected.

Gernreich developed a reputation as an avant-garde designer who broke many of the rules.

"The majority of women embrace a style long after avant-garde designers present it," he said.