He envisions creating a store "with a French touch," anchored by exclusive merchandise from up-and-coming designers, in addition to the clothes and accessories of the same leading international designers featured in the main Paris store.

Park Tool Company is a leading American designer, manufacturer and marketer of bicycle tools and equipment for both professional and home bicycle mechanics.

Temple Grandin, who is both an animal welfare activist and the leading American designer of commercial slaughterhouses, has outlined techniques for humane ritual slaughter.

The leading European designers of the 2010s include Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, Vera Wang, Christian Louboutin, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and Karl Lagerfeld.

The company hosted some of the leading international designers.

Nina Campbell is a leading international interior designer (www.ninacampbell.com)

In the 1950s, de Evia's companion and business partner was Robert Denning, who worked in his studio and who would become a leading American interior designer and partner in the firm Denning & Fourcade.

As an artist, Mr. Houston was known for his prints depicting Arctic subjects, and was for many years a leading designer for Steuben Glass.

It also holds the personal collection of Herbert Bayer, once a teacher at the Bauhaus, later a leading American designer who helped develop Aspen.

Harland and Wolff put their leading designers to work designing the Olympic-class vessels.