He said MIT's example of easy-access digital manufacturing could transform clothes making, furniture design -- whatever people wanted.
"With clothes or art or design, you can always tell if the person who made it is nice, " Mayer said.
Many women designers, like Maria Cornejo, Isabel Toledo and Donna Karan, design the clothes that they want to wear. (Indeed, those women almost exclusively wear their own designs.) But I noticed that the female designers who take a more far-flung approach to fashion creating beautiful objects or shapes rather than functional clothing are treated with the same reverence Givhan says is reserved for male designers.
You know, it's clothes that I've design so I'm even looking forward to building my brand.
Inditex is something of a supply chain marvel: clothes move from concept to design to the Zara stores in a matter of days.
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Several of them sponsored the research, and they will also use the data to better design children's clothes.
The selection at LOFT stores differs from Ann Taylor stores, while the design and styles of clothes are similar, and the prices lower.
Thatcher used to design her own frumpy clothes.
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This sort of shirking of celebrity through, first, hiding their personae in weird coats and capes and dresses and oversized sunglasses and then through refusing to put their names on their clothes has made their foray into design much more palatable for the more snobby fashionistas.
In fact, the processes used to create some of these clothes sound more like a chemistry experiment than clothing design.
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Most tend to focus on clothes and shoes and seem to be intensely interested in fashion and design.
However, going a step further in this top ten is Refinity, looking to enable the wearer to constantly redesign the pattern and look of their clothes, just as BLESSUS allow wearers to alter the cut and design of garments using a zipper system.
Because color is such an integral part of fashion design, courts had been hesitant to extend the same protection to clothes.
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Robin Saxby, CEO of ARM Holdings, Britain's highly successful microchip design firm, is one businessman who keeps more than one change of clothes at the office.
For clothes and accessories with longer shelf lives like handbags, sunglasses and lingerie, though, the design patent is a useful tool.
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In costume design, futurism and the futuristic mingle freely, mainly because no one ever has to buy these clothes, though some may wish to.
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