"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook," Spanish painter Salvador Dali recalled in his autobiography. "At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."

Dali wound up being a famous artist, so adored for his surrealist masterpieces that his works are now housed in the world's most well-known museums. But beyond his paintings, drawings, photos, sculptures and films, ambition led the pop culture darling to a world filled less with canvases and more with runways: fashion.