It seems to have slipped their minds, Rossum observes dryly, that -- lacking designer clothes and upper-crust credentials -- she'd never been embraced by them.
While he conceded that Cairo lacked enough designers to produce a whole fashion week, "Cairo has long been fashion-conscious, so it makes sense to have something like Cairo's Fashion Nights".
It said companies lacked game designers for their applications, and games tended to focus on giving out points, badges and leaderboard rankings rather than more important elements such as balancing competition and collaboration.
Eleanor Windman, interior designer and purchasing agent: Some individual showrooms at the D&D Building, like Donghia, might recommend someone like Ms. Windman, who will act as a purchasing agent, or shopper, for a client who lacks a designer or an architect.
At the same time, what exactly is meant by "good design" has never been more vague, and many designers, lacking firmer principles, aspire only to a place in the glamorized design economy.
3DS' format varies a bit from StartupWeekend: if one team lacks a designer, for example, multiple groups will share a single designer, in order for each team to progress as far as possible.
At present, conceptual designers lack means to design safety.
The 10 dancers, led by the striking Jacqueline Green and Jamar Roberts, are dressed in Naoko Nagata's brightly colored, muscle-revealing slacks and vests and swirling dresses; pleasant enough, but they lack the designer's typically idiosyncratic details.
The one thing Zagreb lacks is designer hotels, which is just as well, considering that grand places like the Hotel Dubrovnik (Gajeva 1; 385-1-4863-555; www.hotel-dubrovnik.hr), on Trg Bana Jelacica, start at just 120 euros (about $165).
Yet over all, the collection lacked the designer's usual subversive blend of town and country, or to put it in Mr. Bailey's design terms, urban cool and muddy elegance.
