She added, "The more I get to know him as a person, the more I understand the connection between his character and what he designs".
Or??? SUSAN ORLEAN: I love fashion, and I love Gaultier's imagination — I've always been struck by the wit and individuality of what he designs.
Simon Collins, the dean of the school of fashion at Parsons the New School for Design, said, "I think their admiration was as much for Lee's passion for pure artistic creativity as much as it was for what he actually designed".
"Even though he does what he does design- and fashion-wise, you know it's part of the shtick.
The lowest ten percent is what he was designing this airplane for," Langewiesche told me speaking of the estimated percent of pilots who are not the right stuff.
But when the conversation turns to my son Ethan, an industrial designer, I'm never sure where to go when I answer the follow-up question, "What does he design?" I've never thought of myself as particularly prudish.
He was known around the campaign as Mr. Outside, because what he wrote was designed to please a broad range of people, and not just those in the narrow circle of Mr. Nixon's traditional supporters.
"Some of what he does seems designed to make it hard for progressives and the Democratic establishment to ignore him," said Jon Green, director of the Working Families Party in Connecticut.
Mr. Shih has become a cheerleader for what he calls "design thinking," pushing his employees to be creative about building products that enrich the experience for consumers.
