American Fiber Systems Inc., a closely held designer and maker of fiber optic networks for midsize United States cities, said yesterday that it had received an investment of an undisclosed amount from Lucent Technologies Inc.
An Indian-born engineer, Uppal conceived the idea for the service in 1994 when he was working as a programmer for OCR, a privately held designer of software for exporters.
Again, if you've had any experience with the tried-and-true model of flash sites, Totsy's spin will sound familiar: The startup holds designer-specific "shopping events," which are held over a 72-hour period.
Since then she has held designer positions at several prestigious companies in NYC, Italy, Hong Kong and Tokyo prior to founding The Sondra Celli Company in 1984.
In the four months since runways were last erected for the trans-Atlantic fashion spectacle, Hollywood produced two movies that seemed poised to take hold of designers' imaginations.
To help writers and artists earn a living online, software engineers and Internet evangelists need to exercise the power they hold as designers.
In the Soviet Union there was far less to hold the designers back, and the whole country became like one of those unfortunate American utilities that committed itself too heavily and could find no way out.
In a strange way I hold the designers of Zambesi, responsible for restoring my faith in an industry I'd slowly grown to hate.
He was asked why he had made such an abrupt departure from the Mad Men look, since the look is proving popular on the shopfloor this season and is still holding many designers in thrall, with actress Christina Hendricks a coveted front row guest at New York fashion shows this week.
