Just over a year ago the former Nokia staffer bumped into a mutual friend from Finland, 32-year-old brand designer Joona Kallio.
Fourgeaud, 32 and Kallio, 33, are also on the hunt for Series A financing, but potential investors will note that neither come from the world of car making, with Fourgeaud steeped in mobile and social media, and Kallio primarily a brand designer.
For example, late in 2012, it announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Chinese luxury jewelry brand, Qeelin, and last month announced it acquired a majority stake in the luxury designer brand, Christopher Kane.
Jun Takahashi, the reclusive designer behind the cult label Undercover, has committed to doing a subsequent designer brand collaboration.
Ms Hill, who joined Mulberry in March 2008, won Best Accessories Designer at the 2011 Elle Style Awards and Best Designer Brand at the 2010 British Fashion Awards.
Ending controls on the grey market would allow large retailers to buy designer brand products at lower prices than they are currently available in the UK and pass benefits on to shoppers.
When they're not fighting city traffic in Cadillac suvs, middle-class Saudis frequent gleaming shopping malls lined with designer brand names from the U.S. In a country where women are required to wear full-length abayas in public, you can catch Sex and the City on satellite TV every Friday night.
At Tanger Outlets, we are continually bringing in more in-demand designer and brand-name tenants to provide in-season and on-trend merchandise for our shoppers.
It also believes it does not suit the brand image to sell the designer jeans alongside tins of baked beans.
The team headed by Tomasz Bachorsky (Lead Designer, Volkswagen Brand) equipped the concept car with six individual seats in three rows.
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Then he diversified, opening several more sports retail chains, including a string of golf stores, and buying franchise rights to operate top brand-name sportswear and designer clothing shops.
Developed by a team led by Marc Lichte (Senior Designer, Volkswagen Brand), the CrossBlue features a very prominent and long hood that integrates the engine's air intakes, a roofline that is also long, and a very short frontal overhang.
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The recent release of pictures of Wozniacki's Wimbledon dress confirms the benefits of marrying a world-class designer with a global brand and an athlete at the top of her game.
At Nike, the brand's third collaboration with Japanese designer Jun Takahashi has yielded a high-tech running jacket in which the super-ventilated hood and arms can be zipped out of the slim-fitting body.
"Like my brother Gianni, Giorgio brought Italy into all the most beautiful corners of the world, " says Santo Versace, brother of the late designer and chairman of the eponymous brand.
World famous for dressing the likes of David Beckham and Sean "Diddy" Combs, Galasso is the designer behind the "Billionaire Couture" brand.
This is a great problem for Knopf and its authors to have, and it points to how influential a designer can be in the identity of a brand.
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Although Marriott International has its own luxury subsidiary hotel brands like the Ritz-Carlton, it has teamed up with hotel designer Ian Schrager to launch its first boutique brand later this year.
Pinault acknowledges that it will be a big challenge for the self-made designer who has never worked for a major fashion brand.
In his spring collection, Bottega Veneta designer Tomas Maier, who has long imprinted the brand with a classic femininity, crafted sheer cardigans, calf-grazing dresses and a coat in the sort of rose print one might find on the walls of a '50s-era powder room.
While the designer's early collections for his eponymous menswear brand were more techno than tulips (a reaction against his childhood in the Belgian countryside with a mother who was "obsessed with flowers"), the designer has more recently learned to embrace his pastoral roots, first at the helm of Jil Sander and now at Dior.
Drew Murray, lead designer, Resistance 3, said the new game introduces brand new Chimera of assorted sizes and specialties, including a particularly crafty stealth sniper.
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Cohen blames Johnson for adding Stewart to a mix of in-store shops including hipper fare like casual clothing brand Joe Fresh, kitschy homewares line Jonathan Adler and niche womenswear designer Nanette Lepore.
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Designer Rebecca Minkoff explained that brands and retailers have to be careful to balance brand awareness and return on investment.
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Roitfeld and Testino later teamed up with U.S. designer Tom Ford during his first years as creative director at Gucci to reinvigorate the brand with an innovative advertising campaign.
"The Piombo brand seeks to bring the culture of other times and places to the present, " says the designer in rapid-fire Italian.
"As alleged, these defendants sold the automobile replacement parts equivalent of designer knock-offs, but represented to their unsuspecting customers that they were buying the name brand, " U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.
Or, you can skip the brand names and get well-made, attractive clothes, shoes and handbags for a lot less than the designer labels.
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