Each of the contemporary women featured in the exhibition is contributing an outfit for display as well as sharing their personal style philosophy. In alphabetical order, the women are:

• Genevieve Bell, Vice President of Intel Labs, Director of User Experience
• Camila Batmanghelidjh, Founder and Director of Kids Company
• Joan Burstein, Founder of Browns
• Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
• Wei Sun Christianson, Co-CEO Morgan Stanley, Asia Pacific
• Livia Firth, Creative Director of Eco Age
• Lady Gaga, Musician and performer
• Miriam González Durántez, Partner at Dechert, wife of Deputy Prime Minister of the UK Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP
• Diane von Furstenberg, Founder and Co-chair of Diane von Furstenberg
• Thea Green MBE, Founder and Managing Director of Nails Inc.
• HSH Princess Charlène of Monaco
• Dame Zaha Hadid, Founder and Director of Zaha Hadid Architects
• Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris
• Roksanda Ilincic, Designer
• Qiong-er Jiang, Artistic Director of Shangxia, China
• Anna Jones, Chief Executive of Hearst Magazines UK
• Alfiya Kuanysheva, CEO of BATT, Kazakhstan
• Pearl Lam, Owner of Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore
• Natalie Massenet MBE, Founder and Executive Chair of NET-A-PORTER, Chair of British Fashion Council
• Megha Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director of Escada
• Charlotte Olympia Dellal, Designer
• Julia Peyton-Jones, Director of the Serpentine Galleries
• Dame Zandra Rhodes, Designer
• Skin, Musician and lead vocalist of Skunk Anansie
• Kirsty Wark, Journalist, broadcaster and writer
• Dame Vivienne Westwood, Designer
• Morwenna Wilson, Senior Projects Director at Argent LLP

The exhibition is co-curated by fashion expert and commentator Colin McDowell and Donna Loveday, Head of Curatorial at the Design Museum.