Sentence examples for a former designer from inspiring English sources

The car's interior was designed by Michael Scheffe, a former designer for toy company Mattel.

But its inelegant design and high price, more than $1,000, turned consumers off, said Barbara Ballard, a former designer for Sprint PCS who is now a principal of Little Springs Design, a wireless design consulting company in Lawrence, Kan ."The Watchphone is science fiction, not something I would ever use in a real-world setting," Ms. Ballard said.

Lamborghini commissioned a former designer for the Bertone coachbuilding studio, Franco Scaglione, to design the first car, the 350 GTV, a shapely coupe.

As a former designer of BMWs and Aston Martins, Henrik Fisker objects to bold design studies that are watered down for production.

Mr. Zambon, a former designer at Fendi who also has his own label, was tapped to design 20 posh pajamas for the debut collection, which starts with easy printed cottons and then piles on the extravagance with rich damasks and intricate embroideries.

The headphones are sleekly Apple-esque, which is no surprise, since they were created by a former designer at Apple.

"It's classic big-budget versus low-budget," says Joshua Gordon, an former designer for Electronic Arts.

Mr. Owen recalled contacting Lawrence Steele, a black former designer at Prada and Moschino, who started his own label in Italy seven years ago.

Favourites include tuxedo jackets and blouses designed from Yves Saint Laurent (designed by its former designer Stefano Pilati), a Chanel boucle knit jacket and colourful evening dresses by Temperley London.

And he hired Donato Coco, a former Ferrari designer, as his chief designer.

That is not necessarily a bad thing for a house where the former designer, Olivier Theyskens, went to the wilder shores of romanticism.