In November, she made headlines off the track when she and her companion, Tim Montgomery, testified before a federal grand jury investigating Victor Conte, the owner of Balco, the San Francisco Bay Area nutritional supplement company that was suspected of manufacturing THG, or tetrahydrogestrinone, a newly discovered designer steroid.
On a larger scale, we discover designers and artisans determined to reinvent neighborhoods and cities around the world.
She discovers designers while they are still in school, and champions them until the world agrees that their clothes are beautiful.
They trekked through Europe, discovering designers like Melinda Gloss and the Italian sunglass manufacturer LGR, with whom they secured exclusive United States representation.
In other words, Milkster is as much about discovering designers as purchasing handmade products.
For geo-spatio-temporal applications, it is left to database designers to discover, design and implement on an ad-hoc basis the temporal and geospatial concepts that they need to represent the miniworld.
But I discovered that designers only design for skinny models.
Housed in a Madison Avenue high rise, Barneys New York offers a mix of newly discovered hot designers and classic standbys (plus eye-catching window displays).
The V&A has dedicated more space to the exhibition, though, and has been able to borrow nearly 70 additional pieces from London-based collaborators of McQueen's such as Katy England, a stylist who worked with him and also helped stage "Savage Beauty", and the collection of Isabella Blow, the fashion editor who first discovered the designer at Central Saint Martins, a college of design.
We featured her Greenwich Village town house in our June/July 2008 issue--and her tastes have only improved with time! Lee painted her once-black entryway table a lively kelly green and reupholstered these basic X-base benches in textiles discovered by designer (and close friend) Nate Berkus in Sri Lanka.
