From bespoke tailoring houses such as Zaremba, which remained a favourite during the Communist era by stashing outlawed "bourgeois" fabrics for clients, to newly graduated designers, Warsaw has a surprising diversity of fashion talent, both old and new.
That means a one-man designer, a graduate designer, can get access to the same amount of computing power as these big multinational companies.
As with many cities, Warsaw's fashion community forms a branch of its wider artistic network; many of the graduate designers cited films as their main inspiration.
She did, however, admit to keeping up with the shows via the internet, praising Paul Costelloe's "high collars" and the graduate designers at the Central Saint Martin's show.
That first wave of CSM graduate designers was soon being celebrated in a new magazine, i-D – several staff, Jones and Clothes Show presenter Caryn Franklin included, were alumni.
From big names to minty fresh graduates, designers were setting out their stalls and, not for the first time, I found myself mentally acquiring a whole new house - not as weekend retreat, or boring rental investment, but as somewhere to store and display all the inspiring objects I wanted to take home with me.
The designer graduated from the Central Saint Martins MA fashion course with distinction in 1999 and set up his own label two years later.
Arad wasn't interested in teaching people how to be professional industrial designers: he wanted to teach them how to think for themselves, and a generation of designers graduated wanting to work just as he did – as a designer-maker, free from the technical constraints set by manufacturers.
A native of Bordeaux, France, fashion designer Pierre Antoine Vettorello is a 28 years old Brussels-based fashion designer who graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2010.
This last point can be summarized as follows: It is just as inappropriate to have an engineer manage the design process as it is to have a designer who graduated from art college be responsible for the product's engineering details.
