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more were his sketches and designs. As I have said, all weaving starts on the drawing board. He had put his ideas into flat design. He wanted to be a costume designer, a second Adrian. In his sketches were several showing me in costumes he had designed. I hired him on the spot. He remained in the studio several years and then went out on his own, but not in costume designing. His name was Daren Pierce.

Today he is a partner in William Pahlmann Associates, a past President of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Design, and a much sought-after designer of interiors. He is enormously talented, a young man who would have gone far without any help from me.

The war years were passing. In Washington, Jane Canfield and Alice Gates battled the monstrous bureaucracy, smoothing the path for me. Wherever I went, I