Mild-mannered and polite as we are, we still occasionally find ourselves causing offence, arousing feelings of mild outrage and generally causing people to turn against us; invariably, when we contend, as we regularly do, that fashion isn't design. Which of course it isn't. "This winter we'll be wearing stripes" is obviously as vacuous as it is untrue. Fashion isn't design. It's styling. And there's nothing wrong with that. Just don't call it design Textile design is design, because
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