But the reality is that few men can afford, or desire, to shop that way, and to sustain a designer business, you need more customers.
But with Wall Street shedding tens of thousands of jobs and financial industry bonuses expected to be meager, one wonders if there are enough members of the Saudi royal family to sustain the designer stores on Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue.
David Collins, who formerly served as the lead sound designer, sustained a supervisory position.
When they decided that losses under Scherrer could not be sustained and a new designer was required, he was powerless.
He has built a career on sustained creative relationships: his designer, Jan Versweyveld, has been his off-stage partner since 1980, while Toneelgroep itself, which he has led since 2001, is a tight-knit ensemble of actors ranging in age from early 20s to late 70s.
By integrating several types of cores on a single chip, designers are anticipating sustained performance growth while depending less on raw circuit speed and decreasing power requirements per unit of performance.
A companion of Wilde, collector of Whistler, friend of Burne-Jones and acolyte of Ellen Terry, Robertson also sustained a career as a painter, illustrator, costume designer and writer.
Elsewhere in the world, architects have sustained historical continuity by building on the ideas of 20th-century designers and exploring their application with new materials and technologies as modernity itself evolves.
Can the Gucci-backed designer, who has yet to establish a firm image, justify the expense of a stand-alone store selling blouses that can cost as much as a flat-screen TV? Can West 14th Street, for that matter, attract enough wealthy pedestrians to sustain the influx of designer vanity outposts, like that of Alexander McQueen? "People ask, 'Are you excited?' " Ms. McCartney said.
The designer faces a trade-off between allocative efficiency and cost of screening, because the cost sustained is wasted.
