H & M launched its first-ever designer collaboration, with the Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld, eleven years ago, in November of 2004.
This racy leather example ($298) is from the London-based designer Kinder Aggugini's capsule collection for Macy's trendy Impulse department, which marks the section's first-ever designer collaboration.
In another attempt to break the internet, Kim Kardashian and husband Kanye West have unveiled their first ever joint designer campaign for Balmain's spring/summer 2015.
This season's biggest debut saw Christian Dior's first ever female designer shun the revered New Look in favour of feminist slogans and references to T-shirts worn on Sex and the City.
I still get a lot of surprised looks when I tell people that, starting in October, I'll become the Victoria and Albert Museum's first ever games designer in residence.
High street giant H&M scored a first this week with the announcement that Elin Kling, fashion editor of the tabloid Expressen and founder of the website minoutfit.se, would be the first ever blogger-designer.
Part of the problem is that there are not enough female graduates in maths, physics and programming, although there are outstanding exceptions, such as Rhianna Pratchett, who has led the writing on games such as Tomb Raider and Mirror's Edge, and Sophia George, who spent 2014 as the Victoria and Albert museum's first ever resident game designer.
Tipton is the first ever plus-size designer to win in the show's 14-season run.
He applauded the "completely new view" offered by the German designer Konstantin Grcic, who structured the museum's first-ever design show, which ended in February.
Running concurrently with Phyllida Barlow's opening show will be the first ever exhibition of garden designer Piet Oudolf's landscape drawings.
