Exploring the dream factory of 12 top designers

It's not hard to imagine that fashion designers are always busy, from the idea to the runway, it's like a war every minute. How to make themselves and their design teams work efficiently, quickly and inspirationally is undoubtedly the most important mission of the studio. Dutch design duo Viktor & Rolf like comfortable and elegant rooms; British gentleman Paul Smith likes to pile up "private treasures" in his room, which are regarded as garbage by others; London's ghost designer Gareth Pugh chooses to be random and unrestrained, and his studio is simply a combination of a factory workshop and an architectural site. Gareth Pugh's studio is a combination of a factory floor and a construction site; Karl Lagerfeld's magazines and books are piled up randomly in his studio; for him, accessibility is the essence of life. Other designers, prone to workaholism, simply combine their studios and apartments, like the starry sky room of Cuban-born designers Isabel and Ruben Toledo, or Diane von Furstenberg's renovated studio in New York City, which has a pyramid of glass on the top floor similar to the Louvre's glass pyramid, which is chic and full of artistic flavor. The top floor has a glass room similar to the Louvre's glass pyramid, which is chic and full of artistic flavor, and what better way to trigger creative inspiration than to look up at the blue sky?

In addition to spatial design, the designer's personal style and attitude towards life are also reflected in the decorative furnishings; Maison Martin Margiela's studio's unadorned minimalist design complements his conceptual design; Diane von Furstenberg is always portrayed in various media as a career-oriented strong woman, but in her studio, family members are omnipresent. In the media, Diane von Furstenberg is always portrayed as a strong career woman, but in her studio, the ubiquitous photos of her family show her motherly love and warmth; in the Toledo couple's apartment, the cactus, hula hoops and eco-friendly furniture reflect the owner's respect for a simple and natural living environment. The most surprising of all is British designer Paul Smith, whose designs are always traditional and classic with interesting British details,

but the myriad of interesting things in his studio accidentally reveal what he considers to be his y hidden childishness.

1. Karl Lagerfeld

Head of Chanel Ready-to-Wear, Haute Couture, Fendi, and his own label, Karl Lagerfeld

Chanel's atelier is located at Place Vendome, 1st Arrondissement, Paris, France

Chanel's atelier is located at Place Vendome, 1st Arrondissement, Paris. France

Karl Lagerfeld is one of the busiest fashion designers in the world. At 69 years old, he wears many hats, and his work is constantly evolving, and his photographs are highly acclaimed, as are his advertisements for Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld. He even prefers to be praised for his photography than for his designs, knowing that he now devotes half of his time and energy to it. His studio is proof of that, the size of a tennis court, with more than three dozen judges' chairs, the likes of which you'd only see at the Wimbledon Open, lined up against the wall

so that he can direct his six assistants in the studio. The digital workspace houses state-of-the-art computers, printers, and scanners; the private studio is filled with cameras and lighting sets; there are dressing rooms for makeup and hair styling, and Karl even has two queen-sized beds with cotton mattresses and soft pillows for the jet-lagged models to recuperate on. The walls of the studio are covered in black-and-white photographs, but they're not as impressive as the five-meter-high wrap-around wall of books in his main studio, which is mostly filled with fashion magazines and design books. "I'm a bookaholic," Karl confesses, "and they're a disease that I'll never be cured of. disease."

2. Jean-Paul Gaultier

Designer of the venerable Hermes and eponymous Jean Paul Gaultier

Jean Paul Gaultier's atelier is located at 30, Rue du Fg-St-Antoine, Paris, France.

Jean Paul Gaultier's name has always been associated with those at the forefront of trends and the most eccentric fantasies: Madonna's cone corset, the bandage corsets in Luc Besson's "The Fifth Element", the lustful outfits in the films of Almodóvar, and Leslie Cheung's "Angels to Demons" concerts. The "Angel to the Devil" concert of Les Misérables dress, or his "bread clothing" made of French baguette ...... He is like a bad child, do not know how to restrain their own whims,

meticulous, He is like a bad, bad boy who doesn't know how to restrain his whims and fancies, but cuts them carefully into his clothes and makes the world gasp. Refusing to be boring and breaking the traditional norms is his most characteristic feature, taking basic clothing styles and then "destroying" them: tearing them up, tying them in knots, or adding various styles of decorations, or putting together a fusion of various ethnic costumes. Walking into his studio in Paris, one finds that colors and materials have been "resolved on the spot" - white lycra wraps the walls, cabinets and sofas, and everything around them becomes immaculate, like a Dali style surrealist house, or a Dadaist one. Or a Dadaist-style house of nonsense.

3. Esteban Cortazar

Emanuel Ungaro

Studio: 2 avenue Montaigne, 75008 Paris, France

The Italian designer Emanuel Ungaro, known for his polka dots, zebra stripes, Scottish squares, and bright prints, has been a favorite for many years. After the retirement of Italian designer Emanuel Ungaro, the designer's chair continues to turn, and it remains to be seen how much power the 25-year-old Esteban Cortazar has, but it's a hard fact that he's got a youthfulness that's unbeatable. Sitting in a studio with a view of the Eiffel Tower, Esteban Cortazar has withstood the pressure of a poorly executed debut collection and is starting to get his act together for this spring/summer's designs. "Classical designs that are fluid are soft and feminine," says the creative director of Neiman Marcus, one of the top U.S. department stores. creative director of the top US department store Neiman Marcus, "a lovely interpretation of Emanuel Ungaro". His second collection, in addition to being a fitting tribute to Ungaro, also took the opportunity to pay tribute to the artist's father, Valentino Cortazar. The huge backdrop of the show was the wallpaper of Emanuel Ungaro's old office, and even more striking was the runway on which the models walked, a giant love letter filled with words of love, written by his father to his girlfriend. Unlike the fabrics, models and threads that litter the old designer's studio, Esteban's design studio looks more like a white-collar office, with all the information (including the electronic files of his father's handwritten love letters) on the computers; but with its proximity to the Plaza de la Concorde, it's a far cry from the average white-collar office.

4. Christian Lacroix

Designer of the eponymous Christian Lacroix brand

Studio address: 73, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008 Paris, France

The luxury of the bright and shiny is a major factor. Christian Lacroix's typical style, his haute couture is all handmade, because the fabric, cutting and embroidery of each of Christian Lacroix's new clothes are too difficult to be mass-produced in factories, and his atelier in the central district of Paris is like a haute couture museum, with walls covered with the designer's manuscripts and fabrics. The walls are covered with the designer's manuscripts and fabric samples, the most famous of which are the sketches of the costumes he designed for the opera Carmen, and Christian Lacroix also has a large collection of stage costumes and vintage fashions. One of his great passions is costume design, "Designing costumes for dance and opera is what lets me breathe. I love luxurious things, and tutus are one of them. Designing theater costumes is crazy and dreamy, and it takes a top designer to design these kinds of costumes." Recently an exhibition of his costume designs will be held in Moscow.

5. Diane von Furstenberg

Designer of the eponymous Diane von Furstenberg brand

Studio: 874 Washington Street, New York City, USA

Russian Jewish designer. Diane von Furstenberg established her eponymous designer label, which has become a New York City staple. After marrying Egon von Und Zu Furstenberg, a fashion designer and descendant of the German royal family, the Belgian-born Diane, who originally studied economics rather than fashion, was selected as a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America's "CFDA" (Council of Fashion Designers of America), and has since gone on to build her own fashion empire. In 1973, her design of the "Wrap Around Dress" made her famous and she was crowned the "Queen of New York Fashion". "Diane has been described by many fashion authorities as the most marketable fashion designer since Coco Chanel.

Diane's headquarters, located in a 5,000-square-foot 19th-century red-walled warehouse in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking District, was a $28 million renovation of the store, studios, offices, showrooms, event rooms, and penthouse apartments. Architects Amale Andraos & Dan Wood are proud of the top floor's diamond-cut glass ceilings, green landscape plantings, and vertical landing space, the entire warehouse's environmental protection, ventilation, and natural light penetration to the museum level, and Diane's private design room is a four-sided floor-to-ceiling glass wall, which overlooks the Central Park, and the design of curtains can be used to create a private space at any time. The curtains are designed to create privacy at any time. The black-and-white leopard-print carpet, black-and-white tiger-print chairs, peach-colored chaise lounge, and Dali's red-lipped paintings at ...... all reveal Diane's love of women. Diane says her designs have always been inspired by women, from Berlin's female spies to the cheongsam girl of the month, and that she hopes to meet the needs of women for different occasions, wearing them for long periods of time and in different ways. Diane says her designs are always inspired by women, from the Berlin spy to the cheongsam girl.

6. Paul Smith

Designer of the eponymous Paul Smith

Studio: 122 Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill, London, UK

British designer Paul Smith is a representative of the spirit of British tradition. A favorite of British yuppies, he can style a bank president and a rock star in the same day, and even though the old codger claims to know nothing about politics, it still didn't stop him from being the stylist for former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Paul Smith's studio, next to London's creative bazaar Covent Garden, is a messy-looking affair. It's clear from all the gadgets in the room that he's a child at heart. Pointing to a wooden antique camera, Paul tells me, "My dad bought me my first camera when I was 11." Since then, Paul has photographed everything that moves as a source of inspiration, and his favorite toy is a motorized train model, which he plays with "when I'm in a meeting with important people, like in Japan, and I don't understand a word of Japanese, and I'm feeling depressed." He laughed out loud, amused by his little trick.

Paul once dropped out of school at a young age, dreaming of one day becoming a professional race car driver. Unfortunately, he had a car accident, and when he was discharged from hospital, he sold his bike to make clothes. 44 years later, he got back on his bike, and designed two *** versions of the famous British bike brand Mercian, and today he has a variety of *** versions of vintage bikes in his office.

Spring is the time of year when everything comes back to life, and Paul is back in the studio, missing the vivacity and variety of London, where vacations in Tuscany and Sardinia were wonderful, but five weeks is too long for a workaholic. "It's a good thing Pauline doesn't speak French, she'd be furious if she knew I said that. I love her and I love working, it's just a matter of balance." Pauline is five years older than him, they have two children, two dogs and two cats; she taught 17-year-old Paul how to cut clothes and has been with him through the lows of his career to the present day, and their love is still as hot as it was when they were young, with Paul saying "I love my wife" a million times a day.

Paul Smith's studio receives gifts from fans all over the world every day: passionate letters, stuffed toys, figurines, paintings ...... His assistant had to "complain" about the time it took to respond to these letters. But, "Paul loves the gadgets that use his name as a design, from buttons to iPods (iPod designer Jonathan Ive created the striped iMAC for Paul's 60th birthday, inspired by Paul's logo)."

7. Vivienne Wesood

Designer of the eponymous label Vivienne Wesood

Studio address: Vivienne Wesood Design Studios, Battersea, London, UK

Back in the '70s. Vivienne Wesood established the punk rock fashion trend in the seventies and became the godmother of fashion, with her biggest fashion success being her work on the punk band, the Sex Pistols, for which she designed stage costumes. Vivienne Wesood's first fashion show in London in 1981 was the "Pirates" collection, in which models wore cartoonish pirate hats and smiled with fake gold teeth, making her an instant hit. Despite her love of quirkiness, many of Vivienne Wesood's designs are inspired by her English and French heritage, and her use of tartan has become a label for the brand. Today, Vivienne Wesood's clothes are designed in her studio in Battersea, London - Vivienne's temporary studio, to be exact. Designed and renovated by architects Anarchitect, the project will be completed in the fall of 2009, and from the renderings provided by the architects, it seems that the future studio of the Empress Dowager Wesood has inherited her usual concept of breaking up the old with the new - the old warehouse extends to the ground floor, connecting the various spaces from the inside, and the elevated space on the original spire is a perfect example of how a woman's life can be transformed into a new one. The sky terraces and gardens have a feminine sense of humor.

8. Maison Martin Margiela

Designer of the eponymous brand MMM

Studio address: 163, rue Saint-Maur, 75011 Paris, France

Maison Martin Margiela in the 90's popular big padded shoulders and cone shoulder. Big padded and tapered shoulders are now a must-have for the fashion elite. However, as the avant-garde fashion house became more recognized and appreciated, the "invisible man", who was almost never seen in the media, became more and more discreet and eventually faded from MMM's history. Now, MMM is the lifeblood of a 71-strong team at its headquarters in Paris and 15 assistants*** in Rome and New York. "What MMM is no longer has too much influence on us, what we value is the impact of personal taste and style on a garment, not their impression of the person or team who created it. person or a team that created the clothes." This concept also runs through the brand's minutiae, from the white coats of the design team's overalls to the brand's flagship stores around the world, it is not difficult to find that white is MMM's eternal theme color, and the brand's design studio in Paris is no exception, with its zeroed-down, pure white color palette and minimalist displays, which are suitable for designers to give full play to their creative whims and try out more fashion experiments. The white color symbolizes different feelings: Purity, Innocence, Neutral, Peace, Possibility, Life, Lightness, Experimental, Mysterious ...... You will also find the same in the boutique. You will also find traces of this in the boutiques: white walls, white combs, white feather ballpoint pens, white staff uniforms, white shopping bags, white shopping receipts ......Martin uses white as a source and an end. The story is different once the fashion is sewn with his white cloth label.

9. Gareth Pugh

Designer of the eponymous brand Gareth Pugh

Studio address: Abbot Street, E8, London, UK

Gareth Pugh, a thin, pale London boy, is one of the UK's most hotly anticipated new fashion Gareth Pugh is one of Britain's hottest new fashion designers. His design style is avant-garde and dark, ghostly and sci-fi, full of surrealism. From the black and white checkerboard outfit in Spring/Summer 07, to the Wizard of Oz meets The Iron Warrior in Fall/Winter 08, to the Medieval Knights in Spring/Summer 09, he rocked all the way from London to Paris, and replaced the traditional runway show with avant-garde art videos in Fall/Winter 09. This unconventional designer is inspired by cold movies or works of art, and his spring/summer 09 collection was inspired by one of the famous paintings by Sir John Everett Millais, a Pre-Raphaelite master: Ophelia and Elizabeth I.

I imagined Gareth's East End studio (just down the street from Alexander McQueen's) to be as chic and eccentric as he is, but in fact, it's like a construction site - "messy" in the sense of "chaotic". "Messy, in a word! Unfinished garments hang on shelves, bits and pieces of raw material litter the floor, magazines, notebooks, sewing machines and other supplies meet in a marvelous way, and there are countless old records thrown randomly on several stacked boards - 80s pop songs and 90s dance moves, all of which he worked on through the night.

What I can't get over is that - with two days to go until the show - not a single thing here is finished, and although the assistants are cutting and decorating non-stop, as he puts it, "the work can't be finished until the last minute when the models go on stage. " In the studio, I didn't see any designer's manuscripts. Unlike most designers who start with manuscripts, Pugh is used to working directly from the blank fabric samples, "Normally, I should draw a picture first, but I always have trouble drawing. It's better for me to touch the fabric visually, and I sketch when I need to explain how the fabric hangs on the body."

After the retirement of Emanuel Ungaro, the Italian designer known for his polka dots, zebra stripes, Scottish chevrons, and gaudy prints, the designer's chair has swung around to carry on the brand, with Esteban Cortazar, the 25-year-old now at the helm, still unseen for how much he can do, but with the irony of his invincible youth. Sitting in a studio with a view of the Eiffel Tower, Esteban Cortazar has withstood the pressure of a poorly executed debut collection and is starting to get his act together for this spring/summer's designs. "Classical designs that are fluid are soft and feminine," says the creative director of Neiman Marcus, one of the top U.S. department stores. creative director of the top US department store Neiman Marcus, "a lovely interpretation of Emanuel Ungaro". His second collection, in addition to being a fitting tribute to Ungaro, also took the opportunity to pay tribute to the artist's father, Valentino Cortazar. The huge backdrop of the show was the wallpaper of Emanuel Ungaro's old office, and even more striking was the runway on which the models walked, a giant love letter filled with words of love, written by his father to his girlfriend. Unlike the fabrics, models and threads that litter the old designer's studio, Esteban's design studio looks more like a white-collar office, with all the information (including the electronic files of his father's handwritten love letters) on the computers; but with its proximity to the Plaza de la Concorde, it's a far cry from the average white-collar office.

4. Christian Lacroix

Designer of the eponymous Christian Lacroix brand

Studio address: 73, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008 Paris, France

The luxury of the bright and shiny is a major factor. Christian Lacroix's typical style, his haute couture is all handmade, because the fabric, cutting and embroidery of each of Christian Lacroix's new clothes are too difficult to be mass-produced in factories, and his atelier in the central district of Paris is like a haute couture museum, with walls covered with the designer's manuscripts and fabrics. The walls are covered with the designer's manuscripts and fabric samples, the most famous of which are the sketches of the costumes he designed for the opera Carmen, and Christian Lacroix also has a large collection of stage costumes and vintage fashions. One of his great passions is costume design, "Designing costumes for dance and opera is what lets me breathe. I love luxurious things, and tutus are one of them. Designing theater costumes is crazy and dreamy, and it takes a top designer to design these kinds of costumes." Recently an exhibition of his costume designs will be held in Moscow.

5. Diane von Furstenberg

Designer of the eponymous Diane von Furstenberg brand

Studio: 874 Washington Street, New York City, USA

Russian Jewish designer. Diane von Furstenberg established her eponymous designer label, which has become a New York City staple. After marrying Egon von Und Zu Furstenberg, a fashion designer and descendant of the German royal family, the Belgian-born Diane, who originally studied economics rather than fashion, was selected as a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America's "CFDA" (Council of Fashion Designers of America), and has since gone on to build her own fashion empire. In 1973, her design of the "Wrap Around Dress" made her famous and she was crowned the "Queen of New York Fashion". "Diane has been described by many fashion authorities as the most marketable fashion designer since Coco Chanel.

Diane's headquarters, located in a 5,000-square-foot 19th-century red-walled warehouse in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking District, was a $28 million renovation of the store, studios, offices, showrooms, event rooms, and penthouse apartments. Architects Amale Andraos & Dan Wood are proud of the top floor's diamond-cut glass ceilings, green landscape plantings, and vertical landing space, the entire warehouse's environmental protection, ventilation, and natural light penetration to the museum level, and Diane's private design room is a four-sided floor-to-ceiling glass wall, which overlooks the Central Park, and the design of curtains can be used to create a private space at any time. The curtains are designed to create privacy at any time. The black-and-white leopard-print carpet, black-and-white tiger-print chairs, peach-colored chaise lounge, and Dali's red-lipped paintings at ...... all reveal Diane's love of women. Diane says her designs have always been inspired by women, from Berlin's female spies to the cheongsam girl of the month, and that she hopes to meet the needs of women for different occasions, wearing them for long periods of time and in different ways. Diane says her designs are always inspired by women, from the Berlin spy to the cheongsam girl.

6. Paul Smith

Designer of the eponymous Paul Smith

Studio: 122 Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill, London, UK

British designer Paul Smith is a representative of the spirit of British tradition. A favorite of British yuppies, he can style a bank president and a rock star in the same day, and even though the old codger claims to know nothing about politics, it still didn't stop him from being the stylist for former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Paul Smith's studio, next to London's creative bazaar Covent Garden, is a messy-looking affair. It's clear from all the gadgets in the room that he's a child at heart. Pointing to a wooden antique camera, Paul tells me, "My dad bought me my first camera when I was 11." Since then, Paul has photographed everything that moves as a source of inspiration, and his favorite toy is a motorized train model, which he plays with "when I'm in a meeting with important people, like in Japan, and I don't understand a word of Japanese, and I'm feeling depressed." He laughed out loud, amused by his little trick.

Paul once dropped out of school at a young age, dreaming of one day becoming a professional race car driver. Unfortunately, he had a car accident, and when he was discharged from hospital, he sold his bike to make clothes. 44 years later, he got back on his bike, and designed two *** versions of the famous British bike brand Mercian, and today he has a variety of *** versions of vintage bikes in his office.

Spring is the time of year when everything comes back to life and Paul is back in the studio, he misses the liveliness and variety of London, the vacations in Tuscany and Sardinia were wonderful, but five weeks is too long for a workaholic. "It's a good thing Pauline doesn't speak French, she'd be furious if she knew I said that. I love her and I love working, it's just a matter of balance." Pauline is five years older than him, they have two children, two dogs and two cats; she taught 17-year-old Paul how to cut clothes and has been with him through the lows of his career to the present day, and their love is still as hot as it was when they were young, with Paul saying "I love my wife" a million times a day.

Paul Smith's studio receives gifts from fans all over the world every day: passionate letters, stuffed toys, figurines, paintings ...... His assistant had to "complain" about the time it took to respond to these letters. But, "Paul loves the gadgets that use his name as a design, from buttons to iPods (iPod designer Jonathan Ive created the striped iMAC for Paul's 60th birthday, inspired by Paul's logo)."

7. Vivienne Wesood

Designer of the eponymous label Vivienne Wesood

Studio address: Vivienne Wesood Design Studios, Battersea, London, UK

Back in the '70s. Vivienne Wesood established the punk rock fashion trend in the seventies and became the godmother of fashion, with her biggest fashion success being her work on the punk band, the Sex Pistols, for which she designed stage costumes. Vivienne Wesood's first fashion show in London in 1981 was the "Pirates" collection, in which models wore cartoonish pirate hats and smiled with fake gold teeth, making her an instant hit. Despite her love of quirkiness, many of Vivienne Wesood's designs are inspired by her English and French heritage, and her use of tartan has become a label for the brand. Today, Vivienne Wesood's clothes are designed in her studio in Battersea, London - Vivienne's temporary studio, to be exact. Designed and renovated by architects Anarchitect, the project will be completed in the fall of 2009, and from the renderings provided by the architects, it seems that the future studio of the Empress Dowager Wesood has inherited her usual concept of breaking up the old with the new - the old warehouse extends to the ground floor, connecting the various spaces from the inside, and the elevated space on the original spire is a perfect example of how a woman's life can be transformed into a new one. The sky terraces and gardens have a feminine sense of humor.

8. Maison Martin Margiela

Designer of the eponymous brand MMM

Studio address: 163, rue Saint-Maur, 75011 Paris, France

Maison Martin Margiela in the 90's popular big padded shoulders and cone shoulder. Big padded and tapered shoulders are now a must-have for the fashion elite. However, as the avant-garde fashion house became more recognized and appreciated, the "invisible man", who was almost never seen in the media, became more and more discreet and eventually faded from MMM's history. Now, MMM is the lifeblood of a 71-strong team at its headquarters in Paris and 15 assistants*** in Rome and New York. "What MMM is no longer has too much influence on us, what we value is the impact of personal taste and style on a garment, not their impression of the person or team who created it. person or a team that created the clothes." This concept also runs through the brand's minutiae, from the white coats of the design team's overalls to the brand's flagship stores around the world, it is not difficult to find that white is MMM's eternal theme color, and the brand's design studio in Paris is no exception, with its zeroed-down, pure white color palette and minimalist displays, which are suitable for designers to give full play to their creative whims and try out more fashion experiments. The white color symbolizes different feelings: Purity, Innocence, Neutral, Peace, Possibility, Life, Lightness, Experimental, Mysterious ...... You will also find the same in the boutique. You will also find traces of this in the boutiques: white walls, white combs, white feather ballpoint pens, white staff uniforms, white shopping bags, white shopping receipts ......Martin uses white as a source and an end. The story is different once the fashion is sewn with his white cloth label.

9. Gareth Pugh

Designer of the eponymous brand Gareth Pugh

Studio address: Abbot Street, E8, London, UK

Gareth Pugh, a thin, pale London boy, is one of the UK's most hotly anticipated new fashion Gareth Pugh is one of Britain's hottest new fashion designers. His design style is avant-garde and dark, ghostly and sci-fi, full of surrealism. From the black and white checkerboard outfit in Spring/Summer 07, to the Wizard of Oz meets The Iron Warrior in Fall/Winter 08, to the Medieval Knights in Spring/Summer 09, he rocked all the way from London to Paris, and replaced the traditional runway show with avant-garde art videos in Fall/Winter 09. This unconventional designer is inspired by cold movies or works of art, and his spring/summer 09 collection was inspired by one of the famous paintings by Sir John Everett Millais, a Pre-Raphaelite master: Ophelia and Elizabeth I.

I imagined Gareth's East End studio (just down the street from Alexander McQueen's) to be as chic and eccentric as he is, but in fact, it's like a construction site - "messy" in the sense of "chaotic". "Messy, in a word! Unfinished garments hang on shelves, bits and pieces of raw material litter the floor, magazines, notebooks, sewing machines and other supplies meet in a marvelous way, and there are countless old records thrown randomly on several stacked boards - 80s pop songs and 90s dance moves, all of which he worked on through the night.

What I can't get over is that - with two days to go until the show - not a single thing here is finished, and although the assistants are cutting and decorating non-stop, as he puts it, "the work can't be finished until the last minute when the models are on the floor. " In the studio, I didn't see any designer's manuscripts. Unlike most designers who start with manuscripts, Pugh is used to working directly from the blank fabric samples, "Normally, I should draw a picture first, but I always have trouble drawing. It's better for me to touch the fabric visually, and I do some sketches when I need to explain how the fabric hangs on the body."