Bringing a little fantasy into reality; Carole Ann Rice meets Caroline Charles - a designer who makes clothes for the multi-faceted modern woman.(ROP)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: July 31, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

The eternal question 'what do women want?' is not exclusive to men. Nearly every designer asks themselves this very same dilemma when opening a sketch book and planning their collections.

If we, the female consumers, don't want it then we won't be buying it and, rather like a top chef who views the plates that are returned from the diner to the kitchens, so designers will see the delectability of their creations by how many fly off the hangers, and how many are left.

Caroline Charles, one of our greatest British designers who once created ...

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