From the FT, a piece on emerging young designers:
One thing never changes; every year, no matter how jaded you are, there is always something that you didn’t expect to see. In among the gauche, the naive, and the striving for effect, there is always something from a young talent who has come up with something fresh and engaging, even brilliant.
It’s this constantly replenished flood of talent that Britain has been living on for decades. Our economy has transformed itself from mass manufacturing to what was once called the service economy. Our disenchantment with banking means that we look more and more to the creative industries, which have been growing faster — in terms of the number of people that they employ — than any other business.
