And in Mr. Simons the couture house has found someone to take a measure of the current situation: a need to give the fabulous skills of the ateliers a workout, the clients' desire to have clothes as wearable as they are beautiful — in other words, cutting back and tidying up couture's wilder growth.
"Internships are catalytic because the students come back from the internship with fabulous skills, including the softer skills like communications and people skills," says Fiona Doyle, professor in the department of material science and engineering at UC Berkeley.
Just what are Dave's fabulous skills?
In myriad ways, mindfulness is offering us critical and fabulous skills to slow down and reconnect.
Though he had been chosen, in part, for his "fabulous skills as an orator", his speaking style and sermons, which had been so beloved in Europe, did not impress New York audiences.
Bellanger finds a 21st-century counterpart in Mr. Currin, an American Mannerist with fabulous formal skills, an urbane taste for louche elegance and a magpie's eye for glittering bits of art history.
Say things that make the person sound good, like "Wow! Jason was right, you have some seriously fabulous cooking skills".
Harvey J. Rosenfield, the founder of Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group based in California, said: "Gary has a fabulous combination of skills that you rarely find in one person.
As I've written many times, young women in a hurry should use their fabulous social networking skills to start their own organisations.
At the juvenile center, where residents spend six hours a day in school and attend workshops on risk and anger management, Dakotah was "student of the week" three times, and received awards for "social skills," "fabulous achievement and effort," and "making a difference".
