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Designer Uniforms: The Outfits These 13 Fashion Visionaries Wear Every Single Day

When you make fashion, you don't dress ~*fashun.*~

By Chelsea Peng

Mar 21, 2016

Getty, design by Katja Cho

Is there a direct relationship between how flamboyantly fashion designers dress and how beautiful the clothes they make are? Judge for yourself straight ahead, where we present the full range of uniforms these créateurs de luxe wear.

<p><strong>The look:</strong> A trim suit, white shirt, and not a laser-precision-trimmed hair out of place. Not even at the airport. </p>

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Tom Ford

The look: A trim suit, white shirt, and not a laser-precision-trimmed hair out of place. Not even at the airport.

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Tom Ford in front of a wall

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Tom Ford in front of another wall

<p><strong>The look:</strong> Rococo Gothic undertaker but chic and accessorized. </p>

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Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel

The look: Rococo Gothic undertaker but chic and accessorized.

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Karl Lagerfeld staring into your soul

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Karl Lagerfeld inside a children's pop-up book

<p><strong>The look:</strong> Outwardly the standard-issue T-shirt and dark denim, but, like, how does he get it to drape like that? Because that's his job?</p>

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Alexander Wang

The look: Outwardly the standard-issue T-shirt and dark denim, but, like, how does he get it to drape like that? Because that's his job?

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Alexander Wang on a sidewalk

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Alexander Wang at a movie premiere

<p><strong>The look:</strong> Infuriatingly, effortlessly chic in A SWEATER AND TROUSERS. </p>

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Phoebe Philo of Céline

The look: Infuriatingly, effortlessly chic in A SWEATER AND TROUSERS.

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Phoebe Philo sitting

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Phoebe Philo from far away

<p><strong>The look:</strong> It used to be a white shirt and a skirt-y bottom of some sort. Now that he's mellowed out a bit, it's a white shirt and a regular dark suit. </p>

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Marc Jacobs

The look: It used to be a white shirt and a skirt-y bottom of some sort. Now that he's mellowed out a bit, it's a white shirt and a regular dark suit.

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Marc Jacobs on a step-and-repeat

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Marc Jacobs about to lose a sword fight

<p><strong>The look:</strong> Like the 37th von Trapp kid if he had access to a tailor who wasn't prone to getting scissor-happy with the curtains. (In case you're worried he'll catch a cold, he switches out the shorts for capris in colder weather.)</p>

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Thom Browne

The look: Like the 37th von Trapp kid if he had access to a tailor who wasn't prone to getting scissor-happy with the curtains. (In case you're worried he'll catch a cold, he switches out the shorts for capris in colder weather.)