The best PMs are certainly product-obsessed, examining coffee mugs at meetings and wondering out loud how to design a more better-designed coffee cup or carefully dis-assembling a new hand-held video-game to see how it works.
The Parisian-style cafe circuit, backed by an intriguing literary history, is paradise for bookish types and coffee lovers, and the edgy local fashion scene seduces design-minded travellers.
He studied both English and Japanese pattern-cutting techniques at Leggatts Design Academy (his graduate collection was all reversible) and worked as a costume designer before launching Black Coffee in 1998.