"Our designers, our engineers, are inspired by great products and by great design out there.
The 18th century was a golden age; industrialisation in the 19th century brought it to the working classes, and ruined it for the chic and rich; in the late 20th century, wallpaper was passé, but for the past decade it has been back in the fashion spotlight, thanks to the extraordinary creativity of designers such as these.
As Bartle explains, "By the time the games companies got interested in making mutiplayer online games in the late 90s, there were 100 MUD experienced designers for every one who was experienced in one of the other multi-user games that had been invented, because it was all free".
To make The Last Of Us, on PlayStation, they brought together hundreds of people in the arts – musicians, designers, actors – who effectively created film-sized games.
And that offers some hope to the designers of search engines.
Instead of taking inspiration from the catwalk, the company's menswear and womenswear designers work together and "start every season with a blank canvas", according to Cos head of womenswear Karin Gustafsson, and take cues from architecture, art, photography and music.
In the average Greek riot, you are surrounded by concert pianists, interior designers, web developers, waitresses and actors in experimental theatre.
I would love to ask the film-makers if the link with Coldstream was a directorial or designers' idea?
There was a lack of talent among fashion students, Westwood argued: "There are a lot of people who are there just because that is what they want to be [fashion designers].
His ex-pupils number graphic designers, architects – the sort of jobs that are supposed to be fuelling Britain's creative, information-based economy.
She wears the big designers - including Oscar de la Renta and Stella McCartney - but she also likes sensible, affordable shift dresses by Paule Ka.
