The designers, who are being honored by the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum for their extraordinary contributions to design in 10 different categories, took part in a Teen Design Fair before attending a luncheon at the White House, which was hosted by Mrs.

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Mr. Sharf said he was pleased when the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum borrowed his ruby flower Van Cleef brooch called the "Command Special" to exhibit.

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In 2010, Moggridge became the director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, and was a recipient of that institution's lifetime achievement award.

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The stylish slip-ons, which Vogue magazine declared "cool shoes for a cool cause, " have become a must-have item among fashion elite and received the People's Design Award from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum last year.

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Yet for all its ambition, the Cooper- Hewitt design triennial is still more of a sampling than a survey, with major gaps in its inventory, including the fact that most of the designs come from either New York or California.

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The task of assessing American design's place in the world, and in everyday life, went more or less by default to the Cooper-Hewitt museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, located in what had been Andrew Carnegie's mansion on Fifth Avenue.

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Obama has worn Browne's designs for other occasions, including a gray dress with black lace overlay to one of the presidential debates last fall, and she honored him last summer at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards for his contribution to fashion.

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He replaces Dafydd Hewitt in the centre with Richie Rees in for Gareth Cooper at scrum-half and three pack changes.

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