The phrase "a time when designers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period or moment in which designers were involved in a particular activity or context.
Example: "There was a time when designers were celebrated for their innovative approaches to sustainable fashion."
Alternatives: "an era when designers" or "a period when designers".
The Queen Elizabeth 2 was built at a time when designers were trying to make ships look like creatures of the jet age.
There was a time when designers sent multiple dresses to multiple stars, never knowing until the limo doors swung open whose glittery creation a nominee would favor.
At a time when designers across Europe were enmeshed in the flowing tendrils of Art Nouveau, Loos hacked away the vines.
At a time when designers are increasingly preoccupied by environmental concerns, it seems logical for them to be drawn to the work of Richard Buckminster Fuller, Victor Papanek and other 20th-century pioneers of ecologically responsible design.
In a time when designers can become as big a star as the people they dress, Philo says: "I'm not looking to become a B-rate celebrity from this job.
All of these works share the defining qualities of Korean craftsmanship — simplicity, restraint, precision, flexibility and sensitivity to context — that seem propitious at a time when designers are striving to imbue their work with nuance and meaning, to strike an emotional chord with consumers who are bored by globalization.
As all but those living among the wombats surely now know, awards season marks the time when designers frantically importune the very famous to wear the satins and tiaras they produce, without any of the petty merchant's expectation of payment.
For the last two seasons, he said, his sales have increased 60percentt, at a time when other designers have seen much smaller gains.
But the showmanship mattered because it had people talking and paying attention at a time when fashion designers are drowning in their own fashion ennui.
They say the rules are also discouraging young researchers from entering the field at a time when weapons designers of the testing era are nearing retirement and must transmit their knowledge to a new generation.
/ An acronym for "do it yourself"; an apropos modifier at a time when resourceful designers are festooning the runways with enough embroidery, frayed seams and patchwork appliqu to rival a suburban crafternoon, e.g., 'I know a hundred nuns went blind making this homespun top, but as Rachel Zoe would say, I die for D.I.Y.' Performative/ (pr f? tiv) /adj.
