So she is responsible for what we eat -- she designs the menu, she works with her staff.
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Ms. Demeulemeester has a coterie of faithful followers who collect the shirts, jackets and trousers for which she designs most of the textiles, and the shoes shaped on her own lathes.
She jokingly refers to the designs she shows as her "children, " but she could also be referring to the artists and craftspeople with whom she collaborates: Not only does she commission a great deal of original work for her exhibitions, she also supports her stable of talent from conceptualization to production and presentation.
Vodianova still has lucrative contracts with Guerlain and French lingerie brand Etam, for which she also designs her own collection.
Michalae Thompson, home manager at Bupa's Meadbank Nursing Centre in London, which Mr Timlin visited, said she had been very impressed by the designs, which she feels are much needed.
But she said these designs also embody the desire to support local economies.
Some of her merchandise is ferreted out from manufacturers whom she has convinced to reissue old designs.
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She's been exhibiting her designs at New York's prestigious Fashion Week shows for more than 10 years.
She has come up with two designs - a desktop version made out of bamboo and a portable one constructed from hand-woven reeds.
Ever since the President's Panel in 1962, she had acquired a sovereign presence on the national stage, and even though she herself was a poor administrator, she felt comfortable in evoking grand designs and directing their execution...
Ms. Charlton of Clos-ette says a new feature she's including in recent designs is a "virtual styling tool" consisting of computer screens and iPads set up in the closet so people can work remotely with a stylist who has a visual inventory of their clothes to scroll through.
She was mildly surprised that some of her designs that had survived the dustbin had become collectors' items.
But she's got the business bug again: "I look at many of my designs from ten years ago and think that they still look good, " she says.
She is building a printer to explore how new designs could be produced.
She sees several advantages to the technology: complex designs can be made rapidly, and can be quickly altered and produced.
The national colors, emblems or flowers of a country she was visiting would often be incorporated into the designs as a friendly gesture.
There was something whimsical and charming about her designs: They very much retained that youthful sensibility she demonstrated in her childrenswear.
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She shows off her jeweled wrists, both stacked with several designs, including a couple of her signature Do Brasil a thick gold chain woven with bright linen thread.
"By then I had a small library of designs, and I was struggling to harness it, " she says.
As she has been researching a new laptop she plans to purchase this year, she said a PC running Windows 7 was more appealing than the newer designs.
Hired away from the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, where she was textile curator in its department of Eastern art, Ms. Barnes has researched how textile techniques and designs spread, often disseminated by merchants plying the sea-lanes.
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