The next year, 1990, the exhibition tells us, Westwood would go on to win the prestigious British Designer of the Year prize.
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He was voted designer of the year 2008 by Esquire China.
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In 2002 and 2003 he won back-to-back Womenswear Designer of the Year awards from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, an achievement that is still unmatched.
The youngest of six children by a London cabbie father, McQueen at 33 has emerged as one of the world's preeminent fashion talents, three times named British Designer of the Year.
She said she relished the chance for her "ethical fashion" label, which she describes as a Nigerian-Italian brand, to share a platform with accomplished designers such as South Africa's Kluk CGDT -- jointly named alongside Nigeria's Maki Oh as "designer of the year" at the event.
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Trials involving an adapted version of Formula 1 car designer Delta Motorsport's E4 coupe electric car will take place before the end of the year.
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Microsoft Advertising, which is sponsoring the French Riviera festival for the ninth year, will host speakers like graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister and Naveen Selvadurai, the founder of Foursquare, in addition to the conference showcases some of its latest innovations.
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The Piombo collection is like a postcard of the 50-year-old peripatetic designer's adventures in color and texture.
And sometime in the year 2000, designer watches in a range of metals from stainless steel to platinum.
When the 29-year-old designer realized that many of his customers were women buying for their significant others, he decided to start creating products they might want for themselves.
At the end of 2008, Mr. Marks, chairman of Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management, and his wife Nancy completed a seven-year renovation of the property with Michael Smith, the designer who redid the White House Oval Office a few years ago, according to someone familiar with the designer.
That led to a job at Yves Saint Laurent and a three-year stint with Christian Lacroix, at the dizzying height of the designer's pouf-dress glory days.
With the acquisition of wireless-chip company Icera last year, graphics-chip designer Nvidia will introduce do-it-all chips that can support both high-speed LTE networks and slower third- and second-generation networks early next year.
The tireless 71-year-old designer, best known for punky prom dresses and a lot of pink, introduced her fall collection as a theatrical exercise video for the Style Network program "Betsey and Lulu, " which follows the lives of Johnson and her daughter.
"It's very exciting for the designers to do it because people do come and see their work, get to know them, " said Bunny Williams, an interior designer and chairwoman of this year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House in New York City, considered one of the nation's oldest and most popular show homes.
Lanvin, under the direction of designer Alber Elbaz, a self-proclaimed L.A. admirer, opened a shop last year.
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The 51-year-old designer, who is Dutch, says he liked "the lines, the architectureness of them" and that they remind him of chairs he could imagine in old European schools.
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