The first one are Dolce&Gabbana.
A designer really manages to impress me, when they don't just create a simple dress ( it doesn't matter whether it's couture or not), but when they simply create a wearable piece of art. And I reckon this is what the two stylists Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana do.
They created their fashion house in 1985 and at the beginning of their career, they didn't even have enough money to engage models for the Milan Fashion Week, so they just called their friends, who pretended to be models.