"Why do financial backers feel that male designers have an edge?"

When it comes to male designers, feedback from the fitting model can be indispensable.

Particularly with male designers, the line between worship and warfare can blur.

Only when the male designer responsible for the surfing left the company did the problem fade, she said.

I believe that male designers have the fantasy level that women do not.

That sounds, frankly, like the sort of sentiment a male designer would tell his female customers to pep them up.

Some male designers, she contends, "are more woman than I am" in their attention to form and detail.

Had there been any disruptive contest with the male designers during the week?

A lot of male designers think how they might dress if they were a woman.

And unlike the male designers with their women muses, both wear the clothes.