Two designers, quite different in their approach to modern dressing, exemplify that creative priority: Derek Lam and Ralph Rucci.
He laid out some of his ideas in a 1998 book, "The Creative Priority: Driving Innovation in the Real World" (HarperBusiness), whose pages are full of phrases like "mind mapping," "porous planning" and "polarized thinking".
"I guess what I meant was," he wrote, "the more spectacle becomes the driving creative priority, the less thoughtful or challenging the films can become".
The artists call for a "fresh start" with a seven-point list of demands, including the end of "business-speak and obfuscating jargon in official communication" and a revisiting of Creative Scotland's priorities with an eye to "social and cultural as well as commercial values".
"The creative economy puts priority on human creativity," President Park said, in April, as she welcomed Bill Gates to the Blue House, Korea's Presidential residence.
But for those tortured souls whose highest-priority creative opus is not so much their writing as themselves, the Lucy Daniels Foundation here has created a different kind of refuge.
The owners, shocked by fans booing at the end of the victory over 10-man Hull City, will make the signing of more creative players a priority when they sit down with Allardyce at the end of the season.
But Fuseli's priorities were creative.
