And it was said that the whole lavish display was made possible by the wealth of the designer's father.
You only have to take a look at the walls of the designer's apartment to know that it still is.
The level of the designer's participation varies, too: In some projects it's only skin-deep, but in others it extends down to faucets.
As she tries on two of the designer's neoprene looks, a bright yellow dress and a blue coat, Gerlan squeals in delight.
In many ways the current expansion is a well-thought-out plan to showcase and profit from almost every aspect of the designer's life.
This explains much of the designer jeans business by the way.
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.
Armani and Hooks, one of the designer's closest managers for a decade, were sometimes at odds over whether to open megastores that brought them all under one roof.
He set up the Design Museum, opened by Lady Thatcher in 1989, to highlight the crucial importance of the creative role of the designer in the success of any modern industrial product.
But, while Tautou's unmistakable similarity to Coco Chanel made her an obvious choice for the role, the striking actress says she wasn't interested in doing a "birth to death" biopic of the designer.
What this deletion would do is to change the copyright protection system for industrial designs which are mass produced, from 25 years after registration to 70 years after the death of the designer.
There are players over the years, there have been writers, there have been people who believe that Barry Bonds had used drugs outside of the designer steroids that he had testified with the grand jury about a couple of years ago.
First comes the idea, then the sketching, then the draping of white toile (muslin), first over a mannequin and later over a live model, and finally the cutting of samples on a pattern that translates the temporary magic of the toile into a permanent garment in the fabric and colours of the designer's choice.
"Like my brother Gianni, Giorgio brought Italy into all the most beautiful corners of the world, " says Santo Versace, brother of the late designer and chairman of the eponymous brand.
It has a much better chance of changing the mind of a designer who uses only a snippet of the stuff rather than that of a company built around the fur industry itself.
She is now an internationally recognised, extremely successful clothes designer: a bone fide member of the fashion elite who prefers being part of the manufacturing world of designer dresses, and not that of manufactured environment of girl bands.
"A runway show really is, like, the ultimate pure view of what the designer wants to show in the collection, " Wenlan says.
This divorce of narration from structure in Western architecture was confirmed in the early Renaissance (15th century), when humanists sought to elevate the status of architects, establishing the designer's control of every element of a structure, conferring an auteur dominance.
During her seven-year tenure as senior curator for London's Design Museum, she was responsible for staging some of that institution's most memorable shows, including the first British retrospectives of the influential industrial designer Marc Newson and the graphic designer Peter Saville, who created album covers for musical artists like Joy Division and New Order.
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The other realm of the futurist designer, less pure and often delightfully so, is film costuming.
So steer clear of the fake designer handbags and computer software, however tempting the prices.
Additionally, Afriyie Poku, winner of the Emerging Designer Competition at Charleston Fashion Week, taught himself to sew.
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Kuo Chen-yuan, then the acting director of the university's computer center and the designer of its computerized examination grading and scoring system.
The opulent life style and fabulous haute-couture fashions of the great designer Valentino are presented in all their splendor in this documentary by Matt Tyrnauer.
She's resigned to the fact that she'll always be regarded first and the foremost as the designer of the wrap dress, despite the varied nature of her collections.
Similar technology, in the service of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen's sintering hallucinatory cuirasses of solidified computer math, yields splendid contemporary examples of that Schlemmerian impulse, as do the animatronic garments of designer Hussein Chalayan, mediated wearable installations that they are.
As a long-time New York fashionista, when I think sample sale, the accompanying image flashing through my head is still the warehouse packed with ecstatic women rummaging through racks of designer threads, elbowing fellow shoppers out of the way in a tizzy of crazed designer discount glory.
The iconic Jaguar E-Type of 1963 was largely the result of a designer who applied mathematics he'd learned while creating aerodynamic World War II fighter planes, which themselves came from many different sources.
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