In the era following the human genome project, there has been a resurgence in both industry and academia of the more old fashioned "systems physiology" approach, as people come to realise that genes are not the whole story.
A low-cost alternative is to fashion systems of management in which locally adapted animals use sagebrush as fall and winter forage to reduce feeding costs and to enhance the growth of grasses and forbs during spring and summer.
"We are a fashion system because we love the clothes.
What does Ms. Chapelle think of the current fashion system?
"Saint Laurent is maybe the most complex brand in the fashion system," he said recently.
And they are making the still-surviving 20th-century fashion system seem very outmoded indeed.
Her message is that the fashion system as it stands basically sucks.
"I was quickly absorbed into the fashion system and therefore the calendar by buyers and press.
The designers were not about to be bullied by the fashion system.
The year was dominated by the machinations of the fashion system.
Since joining the company, he has taken a provocative stance against the fashion system.
