It's a tumultuous time for the fashion industry, not just in Canada but in every seemingly glamorous corner of the globe, and designers must fight not only to create, but to innovate -- as the world watches in real time.
They spread the new sounds and styles of London around the globe so that designers of its street fashion, too, became the toast of world capitals.
Sam Alston, an alumna of LVMH who was responsible for guiding the shopping experience of VIP clients, has created a new concept called Big Lives, which aims to change the retail experience by scouring the globe for emerging designers and exposing them to new customers through community-building experiences.
Kaja Kuhl started a podcast series last year called the UD Sessions: The Expanded Field of Urban Design, featuring conversations with urban designers around the globe who graduated from GSAPP's Urban Design program.
Ms. Katzander is one of a number of landscape designers around the globe who design and plant vertical gardens.
Ms. Karimova, pursuing simultaneous careers in business, diplomacy, music and fashion design, partied with rock stars and fashion designers around the globe.
Listen to more podcasts from the Urban Design program by following UD Sessions: The Expanded Field of Urban Design, a series of conversations with urban designers around the globe, who graduated from or taught at GSAPP's Urban Design program.
And maybe even the world-famous, globe-trotting class of designers known as starchitects.
That ambition is spelt out again when you pass through the museum and into the catwalk show space built alongside it, a trio of sunny, silvered glass globes which Vuitton designer Nicolas Ghesquière described backstage as his "space observatory station".
The development of the "pre-collections" and of accessories has changed the equation for young designers across the globe.
