As a young man, he went to Fabric himself.
Mr. Bartlett, among the first to show blown-up houndstooth, a Trigere signature, designed the fabric himself.
John Burnside's new memoir is a marvellously meandering, digressive study of the nature of love, built partly around the songs that formed him in his childhood and youth, and became "strands in the fabric" of himself.
The collection comprised fabrics that Wang had himself custom developed – lacquered tweed, waxed suede, vinyl, shrink-wrap jacquard knits – all cut with precision and compiled in a restrained palette.
And well before fashion magazines concocted the notion of power dressing, the extravagant Louis XIV draped himself in fabrics embroidered with gold and silver threads and embellished with diamonds in keeping with the Christian moral tradition that emphasized hierarchical rank through clothing.
But affections aside, I still would not send a man to the fabric store by himself to pick kitchen chair fabric.
What makes Mr. Gurung the next generation's red carpet go-to for the avant-garde (Rooney Mara, Jessica Chastain) is his ability to imprint himself on traditional fabrics and textures.
Finally, he settled on an artificial fabric that he created himself out of fibres from recycled plastic water bottles, and he patented it.
Then he told me about how he made the fabric for his dhoti himself, on his spinning wheel and hand loom, and I said, "Whoa, are you, like, a Native American lesbian?" And he said, "I will tell you over dinner".
With his tracks featuring on seminal, genre-defining mixes like Immer, Friends, and Fabric 13, Schaufler found himself playing a central role in the development of the microhouse movement.
